“Personally, the more emotion I bring into racing, the more peaks and troughs I have in my results”
At the final round of the 2022 FIM EnduroGP World Championship in Zschopau, Germany, Wil Ruprecht became just the fourth Australian to claim an FIM Enduro World Championship. The young bloke from Taree, NSW had finally done what he set out to do years ago when he began racing the Australian Off-Road Championship on a Suzuki RM85.
After four years of living and racing the EnduroGP life in Europe, including a debilitating year in 2019 battling the Epstein-Barr virus, Ruprecht kept chipping away and with his signature steely determination and laser-like focus, he got the job done in 2022 before sensationally leaving his championship-winning TM Boano Racing Team and joining the Factory Sherco Enduro Team. So why, after achieving his goal of becoming world champion with a world championship-winning team, would Ruprecht jump ship to a new team and a new bike?
WINNING BIG
There's an old saying that it is best to stay humble in victory and gracious in defeat. Wil Ruprecht epitomizes this. Can you imagine
