TrialGP 2017   Round TR6

The TrialGP world championship leaps the Atlantic Ocean this weekend with a torrid Arizona, USA awaiting Toni Bou, who edges ever closer to an eleventh world title.

The sixth round of the TrialGP will be held this weekend in Hualapai Mountain Park, United States, some twenty kilometres outside Kingman at an altitude of 1800 metres. This is the second of the two transoceanic trials this year with Toni Bou clear overall leader in the event.

With five out of six possible wins, Repsol Honda Team’s Toni Bou will tackle the double-date event (trials on Saturday and Sunday) well and truly fired up in the knowledge that a win could make an eleventh title a near formality. The current champ already sports an 18-point advantage over second place Adam Raga.

Fellow Repsol Honda Team riders Takahisa Fujinami and Jaime Busto will be well-motivated too, holding third and fourth places respectively, both eager to prove what they have to offer as well as pursuing the best possible team championship result.

In the constructor’s championship, Montesa dominates the leader board with 222 points, 51 points clear of second place TRS.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE UNITED STATES TRIALGP

• Kingman hosts the US TrialGP for the first time. The last time the world championship visited America was in 2015 in Stepping Stones, Rhode Island with victory for Toni Bou on both days.
• Takahisa Fujinami is one of the riders with the highest number of wins (five) in the United States. Toni Bou’s tally of victories is three.
• The United States GP was part of the calendar of the first Trial World Championship in 1975 and its winner was the Briton Malcolm Rathmell aboard a Montesa.
• The Hualapai Mountain Park will be the venue for the race. The environment is a rocky natural park about 2000 metres above sea-level covered with tall pines.
• Saturday July 29, the day of the first Kingman trial, will be exactly 10 years
  after Toni Bou sealed his first FIM Trial World Champion title.
• U.S. TrialGP Schedule:
  Thursday
  15:00 Inspection of sections
  Friday
  10:30 to 11:00 Scrutineering
  11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Free training
  12:15 a.m. 12:45 Qualification training
  14:30 Autographs signings
  15:00 to 16:30. Qualification section
  Saturday
  09:00 First rider start
  12:45 End of first lap
  12:05 Start of second lap
  15:20 End of trial
  15:45 Podium ceremony
  Sunday
  09:00 First rider start
  12:45 End of first lap
  12:05 Start of second lap
  15:20 End of trial
  15:45 Podium ceremony

• Toni Bou Stats
94 World Championship victories
191 GP participations
137 podiums
3033 points

• Takahisa Fujinami Stats
33 World Championship victories
317 GP participations
160 podiums
4311 points

• Jaime Busto Stats
38 GP participations
3 podiums
421 points

Rider Standings