Toni Bou clinches 75th career win in U.S. Trial GP

On Jul 27, 2015

Trial 2015 Round T7 , Trial 2

Another double win for Toni Bou in the championship, this time in the United States, as the champion outshines rivals. The Repsol Honda Team rider furthers his advantage at the top of the championship table with triumph number seventy-five.

Repsol Honda Team’s Toni Bou put an end to an albeit short negative spell of three trials without making the top step of the podium, with two clear victories in the seventh round of the Trial World Championship held in the United States. Stepping Stone Ranch, in Rhode Island, witnessed a spectacular Toni Bou aboard the Montesa Cota 4RT, who once again dominated Adam Raga by finishing with virtually half the score of the second place rival.

It took Bou two laps to fend off the opposition with a masterly and unmatchable display. In Stepping Stones, the Repsol Honda Team star collected no less than a 75th career win in the world championship, the 11th of the season and now sits on a 34-point advantage at the top of the championship rankings.

Sunday’s leg of the U.S. Grand Prix saw improvements for the rest of the Repsol Honda Team riders too: Takahisa Fujinami finished fifth, marginally missing out on fourth spot after a mistake in one of the final hazards. Fujigas holds strong in fifth overall.

Jaime Busto finished his first ever American GP with another overall sixth. The young Basque rookie had been forced to overcome gastrointestinal troubles which hampered yesterday’s race, although today – in spite of some errors – ended up handing in the fourth best scorecard.

Next date for the Trial World Championship will be Portugal’s Paços de Ferreira on 5th and 6th September. The event will be the penultimate in the championship where Montesa should seal its eighteenth constructor’s championship title and where Toni Bou could well clinch his ninth outdoor trial title.

Toni Bou ¹

RACE: 1ST CHAMPIONSHIP: 1ST

This weekend has been a really good one. The trial was quite a complicated one but I was riding really well. I’m very pleased with it. These two victories will make me feel a lot more confident because we have increased the advantage over my rivals and I will be able to take it more calmly in Portugal.
We wanted to win and the result has been unbeatable. I felt very good in the sections, especially after all the work that I’ve done this pre-season with the non-stop rule. Here today I was able to apply all of that training that I had done last winter.

Takahisa Fujinami ⁵

RACE: 5TH CHAMPIONSHIP: 5TH

The controls were very strict. They gave me five-points because my minder blew on a stone! I have to admit that I did make a lot of errors. I could have saved about ten marks per lap. The result in fifth place, just off fourth, isn’t bad, but my objective was to make it to the podium. The positive thing is that I’ve improved on yesterday’s result. The negative thing was that I made too many mistakes.

Jaime Busto ¹⁵

RACE: 6TH CHAMPIONSHIP: 6TH

Today I felt much better physically than yesterday when it became really difficult to ride the bike. I’m happy with the result and with the final lap which went really well. The sections hadn’t been changed much since yesterday. The last lap was a good one, but we have to go on improving more.

Miquel Cirera

Team Manager

It has been an unbeatable weekend with Toni’s results. After three races without doing so, winning again and gaining more advantage over the rivals brings a lot of tranquillity and will help relax more for the two final trials. The organisation did a great job and it has been a fantastic trial.
Busto is in the place where he deserves to be and Fujinami did some things right but other things not so much. Both of them have to improve, but they are both born fighters.
For this GP we had had some problems with the delivery of the bikes and the team has had to work at lightning speed to have all the bikes ready to compete. I don’t want to finish without first thanking them all for their dedication.

Results Day 2 GP Trial USA

Pos.	Rider	Num	Nation	L1	L2	L3	Points	Team	Time/Gap
1	BOU Toni	1	SPA	10	9	7	20	Repsol Honda Team	26
2	RAGA Adam	2	SPA	20	17	13	17	Gas Gas	50
3	FAJARDO Jeroni	4	SPA	22	22	11	15	Beta Factory Racing	55
4	CABESTANY Albert	3	SPA	28	24	27	13	Sherco Factory Team	79
5	FUJINAMI Takahisa	5	JPN	27	29	25	11	Repsol Honda Team	81
6	BUSTO Jaime	15	SPA	35	34	14	10	Repsol Honda Team	83
7	CASALES Jorge	7	SPA	31	27	27	9	Beta Factory Racing	85
8	DABILL James	6	GBR	31	35	25	8	Vertigo	91
9	FERRER Alexandre	8	FRA	33	35	33	7	Sherco Factory Team	101
10	KARLSSON Eddie	14	SWE	38	42	34	6	Montesa Team Karlsson	114
11	KADLEC Franz	16	GER	47	38	38	5	Beta Factory Racing	123
12	SHEPPARD Jack	13	GBR	42	48	50	4	Jgas	140

Rider Standings

Pos.	Rider	Num	Nation	Points	Team
1	BOU Toni	1	SPA	271	Repsol Honda Team
2	RAGA Adam	2	SPA	237	Gas Gas
3	FAJARDO Jeroni	4	SPA	194	Beta Factory Racing
4	CABESTANY Albert	3	SPA	179	Sherco Factory Team
5	FUJINAMI Takahisa	5	JPN	166	Repsol Honda Team
6	BUSTO Jaime	15	SPA	138	Repsol Honda Team
7	DABILL James	6	GBR	108	Vertigo
8	FERRER Alexandre	8	FRA	106	Sherco Factory Team
9	KADLEC Franz	16	GER	74	Beta Factory Racing
10	KARLSSON Eddie	14	SWE	70	Montesa Team Karlsson
11	CASALES Jorge	7	SPA	68	Beta Factory Racing
12	SHEPPARD Jack	13	GBR	45	Jgas
13	TARRES Pol	9	SPA	32	Sherco Factory Team
14	PEDERSEN Hakon	12	NOR	24	Ossa Pedersen
15	MORET Francesc	18	SPA	18	Vertigo
16	OGAWA Tomoyuki	18	JPN	16	Honda Team Mitani
17	KUROYAMA Kenichi	20	JPN	14	Yamaha
18	SORENSEN Ole Kristian	19	NOR	14	Sherco
19	NOZAKI Fumitaka	19	JPN	8	Yamaha
20	OGAWA Tsuyoshi	21	JPN	7	Beta
21	BROWN Michael	11	GBR	5	Gas Gas
22	NOMOTO Yoshiaki	22	JPN	2	Beta
23	SATO Yuki	25	JPN	1	Honda