Toni Bou won the first day of the II Trial de Sant Corneli; stage of the fifth and sixth rounds of the SPEA RFME Spanish Trial Championship 2017. Jeroni Fajardo and Jaime Busto flanked him on the TR1 podium.
Gabriel Marcelli, in TR2; David Millán, in TR3; Alfons Soler, in TR4; Martín Riobo, in Junior; Àlex Canales, in Cadet; Mireia Conde, in Female A, Eva Muñoz, in Female B; Mariona Tasias, in Female C; Carlos Palma, in Juvenil A; Juan Guillamón, in Juvenil B; and Antoni Ramonet, in Veteran, were the other winners of the day.
A total of 108 riders have taken the start in this fifth race of 2017.
The SPEA RFME Spanish Trial Championship 2017 has returned to activity this weekend in the Barcelona town of Sant Corneli de Cercs, one of the industrial engines of northern Catalonia thanks to the exploitation of its coal mines until the beginning of the century.
Located just 25 minutes from Cal Rosal and Olvan, venues between 2009 and 2015 of the last CET race, Sant Corneli was until now an unprecedented setting for the National. However, the MC Baix Berguedà, the organizer of this II Sant Corneli Trial, already successfully tested it last season on the occasion of the Catalan Open Championship of the specialty.
Today, Saturday, the first of its two days was held and for the first time so far in 2017 the 12 official categories of the CET have taken the start. That is, TR1, TR2, TR3, TR4, Junior, Cadet, Female A, B and C, Youth A and B, and Veteran. No less than 108 riders took part in this fifth race of the year.
The route of the race, close to 9 kilometres, has had a total of 22 sections (12+10) to be overcome on two occasions. Women’s B and C, as well as Youth A and B, and Veteran, have only had to face ten. The rest of the categories, the usual 12.
Toni Bou (Montesa-HRC) took the win, ahead of Jeroni Fajardo (Vertigo), second, and Jaime Busto (Montesa-HRC), third. The current TR1 leader has added his fourth consecutive win of 2017 and continues to this day without defeat in the domestic competition.
Bou has closed the first pass through the zones with a penalty of 8 points, while in the second entry into the same –TR1 It is the only category in which its riders pass through the same area twice in a row before tackling the next one – it has barely added 5 more points to its locker. Fajardo, on the other hand, has qualified second after finishing with 13 and 8 points, respectively. Busto, on the other hand, needed 16 and 6 points to take the last place on the podium.
TR2, the second most difficult level of the CET 2017, has once again had Gabriel Marcelli as its winner with a total of 15 points; 12 less than Aniol Gelabert, second, and 19 less than Sam Obradó, finally third.
Mireia Conde, Berta Abellán and Neus Murcia have taken the first three places in Women’s A in that order. The two-time absolute Spanish Champion, Conde, has achieved her second victory of the year after closing the two rounds with a maximum of 31 points. Abellán, on the other hand, has accumulated 33 points, while Murcia has ended up unseating Maria Giró from the podium by presenting a card with 39 points; six less than the Montesa rider.
In the rest of the levels in action, the winners were the following riders: David Millán, in TR3; Alfons Soler, in TR4; Martín Riobo, in Junior; Àlex Canales, in Cadet; Eva Muñoz, in Female B; Mariona Tasias, in Female C; Carlos Palma, in Juvenil A; Juan Guillamón, in Juvenil B; and Antoni Ramonet, in Veterano.
Tomorrow, again in Sant Corneli, sixth race of the SPEA RFME Spanish Trial Championship 2017. The first participant will leave at 8:30 a.m.
CLASSIFICATION CET TRIAL SANT CORNELI (ALL CATEGORIES)
