Jason O’Halloran wins the 2025 FIM Endurance World Championship
Australian Jason O’Halloran has won the 2025 FIM Endurance World Championship (EWC) following a dramatic season-ending round in France on September 20-21.
Riding for the Yamaha Austria Racing Team (YART) team alongside Karel Hanika and Marvin Fritz, the trio finished second in the Bol d’Or 24-hour behind Yoshimura SERT Motul, which was enough for them to claim the 2025 championship by 1pt.
YART’s success came after late heartbreak for the BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team, which was running second – and on track to win the championship – just 30 minutes before the end of the gruelling race when smoke began pouring from the rear of the squad’s M 1000 RR.
BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team and YART had started the season showdown level on points following qualifying, making the 88th Bol d’Or a winner-takes-all fight for top honours.
But BMW’s despair became YART’s elation, in what was the final twist in a season which had produced a catalogue of highs and lows for the leading teams.
“Until the finish line nothing is done. I want to say very sorry to the BMW team, they made an awesome job and were so unlucky,” said YART team manager Mandy Kainz.
“It’s unbelievable to be honest, they would also deserve it. We had bad luck in Suzuka, now came a lot of luck.”
After four rounds, YART finished the 2025 championship on 139pts from Yoshimura SERT Motul (138pts) and BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team (108pts).
Above: O’Halloran (left) celebrates with his YART team
The UK-based O’Halloran, who joined the world endurance paddock full-time in 2025 following a long career in the British Superbike Championship, is now the sixth Australian to win in the long form of circuit racing behind Peter Goddard (1997), Warwick Nowland (2000), Heinz Platacis (2001), Steve Martin (2009) and Josh Hook (2018).
Martin’s victory also came with YART, which has a long and distinguished connection with the EWC.
Above: O’Halloran’s rookie season in world endurance has paid instant dividends
After never being headed from the seventh hour onwards, Yoshimura SERT Motul made it a hat-trick of Bol d’Or victories, finishing three laps ahead of YART. Third, a further 16 laps down, was the Champion MRP Tecmas (BMW) team.
The second Australian in the race, Brayden Elliott, was a brilliant ninth in his EWC debut on the French-entered Mana-Au Competition Honda.
A total of 32 teams completed the marathon, with 21 DNFs.
For results and final standings in the 2025 FIM Endurance World Championship, click here.
The 2026 EWC season will begin with the 24 Heures Motos at Le Mans in France from April 16-19.
