GASGAS exits motorcycle racing: leaving Trials just when things were getting good

Among the brands of the Pierer Mobility group, GASGAS is certainly the one most affected by the recent reorganization and corporate restructuring. Not so much in the lineup of models on the market, which have also been updated for 2026, but in motorcycle racing, with a definitive withdrawal starting January 1.

Pierer Mobility had heavily invested in relaunching the GASGAS brand, going so far as to dress the Tech 3 team’s KTM MotoGP bikes in MotoGP for 2023-2024. Successes also came in Moto3, at the Dakar, and in the MXGP Motocross World Championship, before a total pullback that will culminate these days, leaving the last discipline where it still had its own Factory Team.

In both Outdoor and Indoor Trial, the Spanish brand was still present under the GASGAS Factory Racing banner, taking stage wins and championship top-three finishes with Jaime Busto. At times, he was one of the few—if not the only one—capable of challenging ace Toni Bou (Repsol Honda HRC). As it happens, last week the Basque trial rider took part in the fourth and fifth rounds of the X-Trial (Indoor) World Championship held in Ponte di Legno, but in a few days his team will no longer exist.

Third in the championship and winner of the Saint Denis round, the Basque trial rider now sees his team vanish ahead of the 2026 season of the category’s world championship. Following an announcement last September, with the start of 2026 GASGAS will leave every competition in which it had a direct presence, while continuing to support and assist customers competing at international and national levels. Busto will soon announce his next destination, while GASGAS will disappear from Trial as a Factory outfit. One of the disciplines where, in fact, it built much of its own history, well before being acquired by Pierer Mobility.

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