Race Action, Mindset & Life Beyond Announcing
As the first-ever American — male or female — to win an FIM Enduro World Championship, Rachel Gutish knows what it means to grind for a goal. In this episode, host Heather Wilson Schiltz talks with Rachel about racing across Europe on a shoestring budget to juggling multiple championships on both sides of the Atlantic.
Rachel shares the highs and lows of a season defined by grit, travel and a few lucky breaks. She opens up about landing her factory ride with Rieju, how it felt to finally clinch a National Enduro title after more than a decade in the series, and what motivates her to keep pushing the limits of what’s possible in off-road racing. They also dive into her long career in the sport, including her 10 appearances at the International Six Days Enduro and her X Games experiences. Plus, they touch on what she’s doing to keep women’s EnduroCross alive in the U.S.
🎧 What You’ll Hear:
• How Rachel captured the 2025 AMA National Enduro Women’s Elite Championship
• What it took to win the FIM Enduro World Championship and travel the globe on a tight schedule
• The challenges of racing multiple series across continents and managing fatigue
• Her decade-long journey with the U.S. Women’s ISDE Trophy Team and how the program evolved
• Why she loves the challenge of EnduroCross and hard enduro
• The story behind her surprise factory deal with Rieju and how it saved her professional racing career
• Honest talk about the opportunities women need in motorsports and what’s changed throughout the years (and still needs to change)
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“I went and looked up every single overall finish in a test of the top of whatever woman won the race that day. I tracked it over the course of a 15-year period… When I first started, the earliest numbers I had access to I think were like 2007 or 2008 maybe, because that’s when they first started using like computerized online scoring for stuff.
The average top finishing female was finishing 112th, 113th in tests. And just this last weekend, I believe Shelby Turner was 29th, I was 31st and Brooke Costner was 33rd. So you look at the gains we’ve made over the last 15 years and it’s really something.”
-Rachel Gutish, FIM EnduroGP World Champion, National Enduro Champion, X Games Medalist & More
