In 2011 the highlight was, repeating the feat of 2009, that Toni Bou He has won all the championships played, both indoor and outdoor. In the Spanish Championship the role was not easy at all, since with a calendar of only five races and regulations that do not allow errors, concentration had to be maximum in each race. Toni went into the Cal Rosal race with a three-point margin over his closest rival, Albert Cabestany, so everything was to be decided.
In this test the level of the sections was optimal and allowed to mark differences, although assessing the results obtained, it is clear that once again the equality between the four main drivers was maximum. However, Bou had no trouble claiming victory and securing the title, regaining the crown that Adam Raga snatched from him in 2010. The surprise was given by Fajardo, who managed to sneak with his Ossa between the winner and the challenger, Albert Cabestany. Finally, the Sherco rider secured the runner-up position with a margin of only three points over Fajardo himself.
Dropped in the championship, but very close to the places of honor, he finished Raga. The role of the rider from Ulldecona in this edition of the contest has not been as good as expected, butHe did it all after seriously embarrassing Bou during the World Outdoor Championships, where he also achieved important victories.
The surprise of the championship, however, has been the good role and level of the riders who are arriving, where Francesc Moret, Jorge Casales and Pere Borrellas stand out.
Toni Bou: “I couldn’t have asked for more. I am fortunate to be able to repeat a plenary session like the one I achieved in 2009, which makes me feel absolutely satisfied. It’s an incredible success, which can’t be achieved very often and behind which there is an enormous amount of work and effort, both personal and from the whole team. The pressure was high in this last round, since with the title at stake I had no right to make mistakes and, in addition, the regulations make things even more difficult. It has been a complicated trial in terms of difficulty, as it should always be, and for us with the desired ending”.
The race held today in Cal Rosal has put an end to the current trial season. The next one will begin on January 13 in the French city of Strasbourg with the dispute of the first round of the X-Trial World Championship, a series scheduled for eight rounds.
See the calendar of the 2012 Indoor Trial World Championship.
BIOGRAPHY OF TONI BOU
Born on 17 October 1986 and living in Piera (Barcelona), Toni Bou started as a Bike Trial rider when he was eight years old. After being proclaimed World Champion of the specialty in his category, in 1999 he made the leap to Trial on motorcycles.
Immersed in the motorcycling specialty, in 2001 he won the Spanish Junior Championship, which was followed by the 250cc European Cup. for promising young people in 2002, and European Champion in 2003. In 2005 he was part of the winning team in the Trial of Nations, was runner-up in Spain in Indoor Trial and fifth in the Outdoor World Championship.
The following year, Bou achieved his first victories in the top category, both indoors (third in the World Championships) and outdoors, where he ended up occupyingfifth place again in the final classification of the World Championship.
Joining the ranks of the Repsol Montesa Honda team in the 2007 season, the rider from Piera won the World Indoor Championship that same year. On the Montesa Cota 4RT, Toni Bou won four of the eight races that made up the Indoor calendar. The high level exhibited placed him among the favorites for the Outdoor Trial World Championship, which he also won with great authority, after achieving nine victories out of a possible eleven. As a final touch, the Repsol rider won the Spanish Indoor Championship and his third victory, all consecutive, as a member of the Spanish team in the Trial of Nations.
The following year, the Repsol rider repeated his title in the Indoor World Championship, and after seven victories in the Outdoor World Championship and five second places, Bou was once again proclaimed absolute King of the discipline for the second year in a row. At the end of the season, he revalidated the title in the Trial of Nations with Spain, and once again won the Spanish Indoor Trial Championship.
With an increasingly high level, Toni Bou defended both the Indoor and Outdoor Trial World Championships in 2009. He achieved four victories indoors, out of five events, and seven outdoors, out of the eleven that made up the calendar. He ended the season with national titles in the outdoor and indoor arenas. in addition to winning the Trial of Nations for the fifth time with the Spanish team, closing a historic season in which he won all five titles he played.
The Repsol rider faced the 2010 season without lowering his level one iota and has managed to achieve his two main objectives of the season: to repeat his victories in the World Championship, both indoor and outdoor, for the fourth consecutive year
. Four wins and a second place in the five races that made up the 2010 World Indoor Championship calendar confirmed his overwhelming dominance of the specialty. With the seventh victory in ten events contested in the World Outdoor Championships, the rider from Piera won his fourth consecutive Outdoor title.
In the current campaign , Bou has achieved a similar feat. scoring a crushing title in the intense Indoor championship and ending the year with a hotly contested outdoor title. With these two titles Bou has a total of ten world titles and continues to write the history of the sport in golden letters. There are still the National Trial and the World Championship of Nations ahead of him, two highly sought-after titles that Bou already has in his palmares and will try to fight for them in the coming months.
With this title, he has now won eight consecutive World Cups, a figure that confirms him as the best specialist today.
Text: Trialworld
Podium photo: J. Valls
