Team Stark OxMoto’s David Herbreteau and Marc Sans finished out the season in Wales — closing a campaign the team is calling just the beginning.

Electric bikes have won stage races, class titles and one-off hard enduro tests. What they hadn’t done, until now, was survive an entire season of the FIM Enduro World Championship — arguably the toughest test of reliability and consistency in the sport, spanning multiple countries, terrains and formats across a full year.

Team Stark OxMoto — racing the electric Stark Varg under the Beta Motorcycles-affiliated French squad OxMoto — closed out that campaign at EnduroGP’s final round in Wales.

Marc Sans, competing in the E3 class, posted his best result of the season with 16th on the final day. Teammate David Herbreteau, in E2, progressed across the year without a standout single result to match. Neither rider is troubling the podium yet — this was a first-year campaign about finishing rather than seriously tackling the leaders.

Completing every round of a world championship enduro season means surviving the full range of conditions the discipline throws at a bike: multi-hour transfer sections, varying terrain, and the kind of cumulative wear that a one-off demonstration ride never tests. An electric bike doing that for a full season, for the first time, is a genuine reliability milestone.

The team’s own framing, in their season-closing statement, was measured rather than triumphant: a “first step”, a “season of learning”, with progress “only just beginning”. OxMoto has confirmed it will return for 2027.

For Australian riders watching the electric-versus-combustion question play out, this is a data point worth registering. EnduroGP is a fundamentally different proving ground to the hard enduro and supercross events getting most of the attention — it rewards a full season of durability, not a single big weekend. A season completed, even outside the points, says something concrete about where Stark’s platform now stands.