Italian team JET Fantic Racing is waving the Union Jack in 2023 with an all-British rider line-up ready for the FIM EnduroGP world championship. Of course, it helps that of the three riders two are current enduro world champions and between the three they’ve secured four world titles plus in 2022 two overall victories in the coveted International Six Days Enduro (ISDE).
Images courtesy of Jet Fantic Racing
Jet Fantic Racing’s team owner, Franco Mayr, is then no Anglophile, merely a man who respects results and for that reason his line-up – in no particular order – reads Harry Edmondson (2022 Youth World Champion), Jane Daniels (2019, 2020, 2022 Women’s World Champion, 2022 ISDE winner Women’s Team and Individual) and Jed Etchells (2022 ISDE World Team winner).
Harry Edmondson is promoted to J1 (Junior E1 category) for 2023 after winning the 2022 world championship in the Youth class. With the class progression, 22-year-old Edmondson – son of four-time world champion Paul Edmondson – also moves on from racing the two-stroke Fantic XE125 to the more powerful four-stroke Fantic XEF250.
Jane Daniels won the 2022 women’s world championship by winning all eight races. The 28-year-old from Wigan will look to repeat that whitewash in 2023, again riding a Fantic XEF250.
Jed Etchells, 23, third in the J1 world championship in 2022 and part of the ISDE-winning British World Team (riding Fantic), joins with Edmondson in the J1 class again for 2023.
JET Fantic Racing Enduro team:
Harry Edmondson | GBR | J1 | XEF 250 | #16
Jed Etchells | GBR | J1 | XEF 250 | #47
Jane Daniels | GBR | WMN | XEF 250 | #496
Franco Mayr, JET Fantic Racing Enduro team manager: “Harry, Jane, and Jed are three wonderful guys working very well. This year Harry is moving from 125 to 250. He may have to find confidence in racing with the new Fantic in the first races. On the other hand, Jed and Jane can rely on the confidence they already have gained with their own, but all three have great potential to take great satisfaction.”
The first of the seven-round EnduroGP world championship is the Acerbis GP of Italy in San Remo / Arma di Taggia on March 31 – April 02.
