Toni Bou master class in the UK

On Jul 17, 2016

Trial 2016 Round T7 , Trial 2

The Repsol Honda Team rider scores a tenth win in the Trial World Championship as he nears another world title. Takahisa Fujinami remains in the third spot.

The seventh GP of the trial calendar finished with yet another victory for Toni Bou who once again proved himself to be unreachable. The Montesa Cota 4RT ace soon put two errors on the first lap behind him, picking up ten penalty marks. The Spaniard took the bull by the horns over the next two laps shaking off any serious challenge from adversaries.

The trial on day two turned out to be a far more complicated affair than the previous day with the course a mixture of dried out parts with other mud-filled sections. Bou appeared at ease throughout, clinching a win that moves the rider ever closer to the goal of a tenth outdoor victory that will bring the rider’s overall tally to twenty championship titles. This should occur in the final date of the 2016 championship to be held in Valchiampo.

Takahisa Fujinami had the podium in sight after the first two laps. Any rostrum prospects, however, went up in smoke on an error-filled final lap. Fujigas finished the day fifth, yet hangs on to an overall third position.

Jaime Busto will prefer to put the weekend behind him. The young Repsol rider took a hard knock on his left leg in section two of the first lap. Busto put in some good moves but over-filled the scorecard and leaves the UK far from content.

Repsol Honda Team now gets a well-deserved rest until the 3rd and 4th September when the curtain comes down on the 2016 outdoor trial season. Italy’s Valchiampo will host what promises to be a historical event.

Toni Bou ¹

TRIAL: 1ST CHAMPIONSHIP: 1ST

In the first part I made a few mistakes. I got two five point penalties but after I pulled it together on the second and third lap. I come away feeling very pleased with the GP which has been an important one for the championship. We have made a giant step, without a doubt, towards our goal that we set out at the start of the year, which was the title. But we have to keep on fighting until the end, as we have said before. Now it’s time for some well deserved holiday and we will be back stronger than ever for Italy.

Takahisa Fujinami ⁵

TRIAL: 5TH CHAMPIONSHIP: 3RD

I thought that I would be able to finish on the podium but I ended up missing out on it by a long way. On the first lap I started quite well but I started to make a lot of mistakes on the second. I got a bit too nervous on the final lap as I was looking to get a zero. But the zero never came. It worked out very badly. In the end one has to look at the championship. I have a 14 point difference over Cabestany and I should be able to grab the third spot. I intend to seal it in Italy.

Jaime Busto ⁶

TRIAL: 6TH CHAMPIONSHIP: 5TH

There was little change from yesterday. I started well, but I fell and I hit my leg in section two. On the second lap I made several mistakes in a row and picked up five consecutive five marks. My leg was really hurting, but that’s not really an excuse because I made too many errors. Really bad. It’s not the result I wanted.

Miquel Cirera

Team Manager

Toni’s weekend has been unbeatable. Yesterday he walloped everyone and today scored a victory in a complicated trial. He has had a great championship and he is a stone’s throw away from the title. We will come back from the holidays ready to achieve the year’s goal. For the rest the results weren’t so good. Fuji will have to suffer until the final moment to get his third place, but Fujinami doesn’t have to prove anything to anyone: he has already done it in the last twenty years of trial. Jaime took a hard hit today in the second section and that affected him throughout the whole day. We still have to do a bit of work to achieve our objective. Thanks to the whole team and have a great holiday.

Results GP Great Britain day 2

Pos.	Rider	Num	Nation	L1	L2	L3	T3	Points	Team	Time/Gap
1	BOU Toni	1	SPA	10	7	3		20	Repsol Honda Team	20
2	RAGA Adam	2	SPA	15	9	16		17	TRS Factory Team	40
3	CABESTANY Albert	4	SPA	21	19	14		15	Sherco Factory Team	54
4	FAJARDO Jeroni	3	SPA	20	17	18		13	Vertigo Factory Team	55
5	FUJINAMI Takahisa	5	JPN	18	19	26	1	11	Repsol Honda Team	64
6	BUSTO Jaime	6	SPA	23	25	22		10	Repsol Honda Team	70
7	DABILL James	8	GBR	24	27	30		9	Vertigo Factory Team	81
8	KARLSSON Eddie	10	SWE	26	32	27		8	Montesa Team Karlsson	85
9	GELABERT Miquel	20	SPA	32	32	36		7	RFME Spea	100
10	KADLEC Franz	11	GER	39	35	31		6	Gas Gas	105
11	CASALES Jorge	9	SPA	34	35	37		5	Beta Factory Racing	106
12	FERRER Alexandre	7	FRA	41	33	33		4	Sherco Factory Team	107
13	GRATTAROLA Matteo	18	ITA	32	38	40		3	Gas Gas FG Italia	110
14	GUBIAN Loris	21	FRA	44	37	36		2	Beta Factory Racing	117
15	NOGUERA Oriol	24	SPA	38	43	37		1	MRW Limit Motos Montesa	118
16	PEDERSEN Hakon	15	NOR	50	46	48		0	Gas Gas	144

Rider Standings

Pos.	Rider	Num	Nation	Points	Team
1	BOU Toni	1	SPA	249	Repsol Honda Team
2	RAGA Adam	2	SPA	218	TRS Factory Team
3	FUJINAMI Takahisa	5	JPN	169	Repsol Honda Team
4	CABESTANY Albert	4	SPA	155	Sherco Factory Team
5	BUSTO Jaime	6	SPA	148	Repsol Honda Team
6	FAJARDO Jeroni	3	SPA	143	Vertigo Factory Team
7	DABILL James	8	GBR	133	Vertigo Factory Team
8	CASALES Jorge	9	SPA	77	Beta Factory Racing
9	GRATTAROLA Matteo	18	ITA	67	Gas Gas FG Italia
10	KADLEC Franz	11	GER	66	Gas Gas
11	GELABERT Miquel	20	SPA	60	RFME Spea
12	KARLSSON Eddie	10	SWE	59	Montesa Team Karlsson
13	FERRER Alexandre	7	FRA	39	Sherco Factory Team
14	GUBIAN Loris	21	FRA	38	Beta Factory Racing
15	TARRES Pol	12	SPA	27	TRS Factory Team
16	NOGUERA Oriol	24	SPA	26	MRW Limit Motos Montesa
17	OGAWA Tomoyuki	13	JPN	14	Honda Team Mitani
18	KUROYAMA Kenichi	14	JPN	10	Yamaha Racing
19	NOZAKI Fumitaka	16	JPN	5	Team Nozaki Scorpa