At the last stop in Val d'Isère (FRA), French enduro rider Jérôme Clementz had already made the preliminary decision in the series. Although he would therefore no longer have to compete, Clementz is once again entering the race with ambitions of victory. His toughest opponent, former 4x specialist Jared Graves (AUS), put in a strong race and still leads the rankings after the first day of racing. On the second, however, Graves loses ground and ends up in second place. Frenchman Nicolas Lau has good maps for victory. However, with a ten-second lead, he takes himself out of the decision. He missed one of the specified start times and was therefore given a one-minute time penalty. Instead of finishing on the winner's podium, Lau slipped to 20th place, but was able to work his way up to fifth place on the second day of the race. Fabien Barel finishes in third place.

René Wildhaber is proving to have a solid season. The Swiss freeride figurehead is in seventh position after the first day of racing. Wildhaber makes the most of the second day and improves another place to finish sixth. Another Wildhaber almost made it into the top ten. Gusti Wildhaber rides a very strong race and finishes the first day of the race in eleventh place. The last two stages on the following day were not to go so well. Gusti Wildhaber crashed once each and finished in 23rd place.

Ludovic May and Lukas Anrig also delivered a consistent performance and finished in 14th and 15th place, while their team-mate Michael Schärer was unlucky and had to leave the race with an irreparable rear wheel.

The two cross-country stars Nino Schurter and the Italian Marco Fontana also put in a strong performance. Schurter even rode the ninth-best time in one stage and would be classified in the top 30 after the first day. However, he was also given a six-minute time penalty. Misinformed, Schurter went to his mechanic after the check-in, which he should not have done. However, the penalty is not reversed even though an organization assistant gave Schurter the wrong information. As a result, the reigning cross-country world champion finishes in 277th place.
Fontana, on the other hand, gets through without any time penalties and is classified in a respectable 19th place after the two days of racing.High-caliber women's race
A cross-country athlete, Tanja Zakelj from Slovenia, will also be competing in the women's race. The World Cup winner is taken with the enduro movement and is ready for the challenge. Although she cannot keep up with the front runners with her 16th place, she is still satisfied with her race, especially as she finished ahead of some enduro specialists.
Tracy Moseley is also satisfied. After almost winning the series, the British rider turned up the heat once again and won the last race of the Enduro World Series to crown her victory. She snatches ten seconds from the runner-up, multiple downhill world champion Anne Caroline Chausson (FRA). Third place went to former cross-country specialist Cécile Ravanel from France. Anita Gehrig is not entirely satisfied with her race. Although she finished in ninth place, she missed out on a better result due to a few riding errors and a crash on the second day. What is annoying for Gehrig is that the crash was only partly her own fault. Employees of the event had illegally blocked off the shortcuts within the race course. As there is a downhill stage on both Saturday and Sunday, other riders, like Anita Gehrig, are also faced with closed lines that were still open the day before. This leads to a number of crashes. Gusti Wildhaber and Nino Schurter are among those affected.

Carolin Gehrig gets through the race without any notable difficulties. A good eleventh place is the result of a consistent race weekend. Nevertheless, Gehrig is disappointed that she didn't make it into the top ten in the last race, and at the same time announces that she will train well throughout the winter to break the "magic barrier" in the coming season.
Lorraine Truong from Romande misses out on the top ten due to a time penalty. She is therefore classified in 13th place after two days of racing.

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