Maximum excitement in the Spanish Trial Championship after the dispute of the third scoring race for the TR1 category, where Adam Raga has imposed himself with authority on his rivals in a demanding trial with high scores, encouraging the classification even more.
At the moment, Adam Raga himself is the leader of the championship with only one point margin over his main rival, Toni Bou, who in Asturias has only been able to be second, while Jeroni Fajardo, third on this occasion, is three points behind Bou and is fully in the fight for the national title.
We have to go back to the beginning of the 21st century to find the last visit of the CET to Asturias. To be exact, until 2001, the season in which the ski resort of Puerto Pajares – under the organization of the Moto Club Cuenca Minera – hosted it for the fifth and last time since 1995. Well, a decade and a half later, it was Adam Raga who won the top flight.
The Gas Gas rider has added here, in the El Condao-Laviana Trial, a race organized by the Motorcycling Federation of the Principality of Asturias (FMPA) and Team Coya, his second victory in the SPEA RFME Spanish Individual Trial Championship 2015 after the one achieved in Sant Joan, Mallorca; in the first scoring race for TR1. And he has done it with a whole demonstration of riding. At all times, very solid and safe; Seamless. To be exact, Raga has completed the obligatory route, which the TR1 overcomes by passing twice consecutively through each of the twelve zones that make it up, with only 7 points; twelve less than Toni Bou, who is in second place, but still remains the leader. The last place on the podium went to Jeroni Fajardo, who finished second in the two previous rounds for TR1.
In this same category, RFME SPEA National Team riders Oriol Noguera and Miquel Gelabert finished in sixth and eighth place, respectively. The first with a final card of 81 points; three less than Gelabert. Between them, Arnau Farré, with a total of 82 points.
Neither Pol Tarrés nor Jorge Casales have taken part in this match as they are recovering from their respective injuries. Tarrés, on the right knee, and Casales, on the other hand, on the foot and left knee. The first of them, a teammate of Noguera and Gelabert, as well as Marc Riba, in the SPEA RFME National Team, was injured in the first valid test for TR1, in Sant Joan, Mallorca, while Casales, the winner of the 2013 World Cup – the old Junior World Cup – reopened an old wound, in addition to fracturing his foot in the same mishap. during the second day of the recent Japanese Trial Grand Prix.
In the rest of the categories in contention, which for this occasion have had a maximum time of four hours and forty-five minutes to do two laps of the route, the winners have been the current first classified of the same. In TR2, the last and most recent of the members of the SPEA RFME National Team, Riba, has conquered in El Condao-Laviana his third victory of the year with a total of 49 points, after surpassing Marcos Méndez and Joaquín Salcedo, second and third with 60 and 67 points, respectively. On the other hand, Francesc Recio, in TR3, and Gabriel Marcelli, in Junior, count their participations by victories. Three out of three, so both, as well as Riba, return from Asturias stronger and more leaders than ever. Recio only needed 18 points today, while Marcelli only needed a final card of 36 points.
WOMEN’S, TR4 AND CADETS CATEGORY
The first edition of the El Condao-Laviana Trial, organized by the Motorcycling Federation of the Principality of Asturias (FMPA) and Team Coya, has started with the dispute of the third challenge of the season valid for the three categories reserved for women. That is, Women’s A, B and the new C, created this year by the Royal Spanish Motorcycling Federation (RFME) as the first step to access the competition. That is, open to participants from 10 years old, like their counterparts A and B, but with the lowest level of difficulty of the three. Its doors, with a blue background and a white arrow inside. In addition to these three levels, the pilots participating in TR4 and Cadet, classes that here reach half of the total events scheduled for both are
In 2015, they also took the start on Saturday.
In Women’s A, the highest category for girls, the Asturian race has served to break the equality that reigned this year between Elisabet Solera and Mireia Conde; both teammates in the RFME SPEA National Team in the last editions of the Trial of Nations. Solera beat Conde in La Nucía, Alicante, in the opening round, while the two-time Spanish Champion in the premier class did the same with Solera in La Clúa, Lleida, in the following round. Well, in El Condao-Laviana, with 11 sections instead of the usual 12 per lap – only ten for Women’s A and B – and a maximum time of 5 hours to complete the course, it was Conde who won his second victory of the season by totalling only 37 points, and finishing once again ahead of Solera, second with 42 points. Maria Giró, with 48 points, closed the places of honour – her first podium of the season – followed by Berta Abellán, finally fourth with 49.
In Women’s B, only the current champion and leader of the same has taken part: Alba Lara. Her rival in the previous rounds, Mireia Lozano, was withdrawn at the last minute after hurting her knee during a training session prior to the Asturian event. For her part, Carla Caballé, in her second participation in Women’s C, has debuted at the top, ahead of Eva Muñoz, in the end second classified and winner of the previous races, and Paula Castells, third.
In TR4 and Cadet, the other two classes that have also entered the fray today, Saturday, David Oliver and Pablo Suárez have won, respectively. The first, with a final cumulative of only 17 points. Suárez, on the other hand, did the same after finishing with 25 penalties.
The next round of the 2015 edition of the SPEA RFME Spanish Individual Trial Championship will be held on June 21 in the town of Teo (A Coruña) and will be in charge of the Teo Motorcycling Club. However, TR1 and the three levels of Women’s will not be there, as they will return to action in Sant Julià de Lòria, Andorra, on July 11 and 12.
DECLARATIONS
Adam Raga: “Today’s race went very well. The truth is that we have been very fine from the beginning. We are very happy because, after the bad taste left in our mouths by the race in Japan, to get the victory here and score these points that return us to first place in the standings is a fantastic result. I’m very happy, we have to keep fighting and I want to thank the whole Gas Gas team for the magnificent work.”
Arnau Farré: “This was a very technical race and very tight time in the zones for all the riders. It was my third race in TR1 after moving up a category and I felt very good on the bike, getting better and better. I’m gaining experience in the top category and in every race.”
Toni Bou: “It wasn’t an easy trial because it was more or less the same as in Mallorca, starting at the front. Adam, who started much further back, did well and won. I conceded more points than necessary, many in the first pass, and it wasn’t to be! And if we can’t win, it’s good to finish second. Now we are one point behind the first and in the next round we will start behind him.”
Jaime Busto: “I think today I could have done a little bit better, I made a few too many mistakes… I’d say quite a few. Still, I felt good on the bike and I think the result is not bad. The route wasn’t very complicated, I was skating, but it was doable; In fact, on the second pass I’ve improved.
