the Indoor World Championship in Barcelona Alfredo Gómez is a rider who needs no introduction for Trial fans, as he has a 125cc World Championship and Junior Runner-up to his credit, but also for Enduro fans thanks to his great feats in the Indoor World Championship.
Alfredo represents the large number of young riders who fight every season to remain in the elite and make their passion a profession. Despite the good track record and the upward progression of the rider from Cercedilla (Madrid), each pre-season not only involves effort and preparation, but also finding a team and sponsors that support the high costs of changing the image. Luckily, Alfredo still has the support of the most powerful team at the moment, Montesa-Repsol, riding a Montesa Cota 4RT.
At the same time, the rider from Madrid is participating in the Indoor Enduro World Championship, where he is reaping some truly horrifying results in a short period of time.
We spoke to Alfredo to see how he experienced the race in Barcelona, where he finished fourth, ahead of stars such as Cervantes and Lampkin, at the controls of a Husaberg 250 2T. Also about their future plans, approaches, differences in competition with respect to Enduro and way of seeing what is happening today in Trial.
Text: TRIALWORLD
TRIALWORLD: Tell us how you experienced the Indoor Enduro World Championship in Barcelona.
ALFREDO GÓMEZ: I arrived in Barcelona with a lot of desire to do well as I had trained much more, I had adapted more to the bike and training I was much faster and safer than when I went to Genoa to race that I had only had the bike for a week. Seeing the line-up of riders that the race had I went with the aim of matching what happened in Genoa which would not be easy since there were many more very good riders all, in practice it did not go very well for me since it is very difficult for me to get into a rhythm and do fast laps but in the eight-lap qualifying I won it and this is where I saw that the lap time was not the most important thing but the regularity he had.
In the finals I did quite well 4, 5 and 3 although it was only in the third where I ended up happy as I had managed to do third, I started very badly in all of them and this together with the lack of pace in the first laps makes me train more specifically and better for Lisbon. In short, gaining experience to be higher and higher…
TW: This great success in Indoor Enduro, ahead of illustrious figures of the specialty, is an injection of motivation. Do you think it can also influence you to dedicate more time to Enduro now?
AG: Without a doubt, it influences me to dedicate more time to it and do the training a little more specific but I have a very good own planning and I don’t think it will affect in any way the training that I continue to do in the trial, I feel very good, I am strong and motivated, I just hope that it is shown in the trials in the form of good results.
TW: According to your experience in indoor territory. Is it more fun to race in Trial or Enduro? Is it lived in a very different way?
AG: In indoor trials everything happens very fast from the rider’s point of view and surely very slowly; Sometimes boring from the spectator’s point of view (in indoor enduro they do trials at the same time and we see it). In indoor enduros everything is much more dynamic, it is very different one speciality from the other; I like both, but if I have a choice, I’ll go with an indoor enduro as a rider and spectator.
TW: Is facing this World Cup demanding specific preparation or is it enough to follow your usual routine?
AF: I’m following my trial training routine, I’ve only stopped doing trials on Wednesday to practice enduro but in everything else I’m still doing the same.
TW: Where are you professionally speaking? Are you clear about your references or do you think it’s better to set goals in the short and medium term?
AF: I’m in a bit of a complicated moment because of the global crisis that affects us all, because of the lack of aid due to the crisis and the lack of aid, the means you have to face the championships are linked, everything is very stopped but I think that when all this starts to raise our heads we must be among the first to be as high as possible in everything, As for the references, I prefer to set medium or long-term goals, I’m not in a hurry at all.
TW: We’re surprised to see you on a Husaberg, rather than a Honda. Can you explain the reasons?
AF: It’s easy, in Honda there is no enduro bike, only the HM so I spoke to Lorenzo Santolino who has been a great friend for a few years now and he put me in touch with KTM Spain, the rest came by itself…
TW: Although we can all imagine it, economically, is it more productive to race in Enduro than in Trial?
AF: On this subject I can only talk about the indoors which are the only enduros I have raced and the truth is that from the experience I have had with my results both in trial and enduro, if enduro is more productive…
TW: Is it also easier to search for equipment?
AF: I think it’s not that it’s easier to look for a team, but simply that in enduro there are teams that pay a reasonable amount to assist you for cto spain, world championship etc… In trial there are some but in Spain there are none and here it is d
Where is the difficulty, in which there is none.
TW: I’m sure you’re getting offers to race the Enduro World Championship outdoors… does your contract allow it?
AF: At the moment I don’t have any to do the enduro world championship, only the cto Spain but I’m not in a hurry to do anything as I told you before, I’m a trial rider today.
TW: Would it be a dream to race the SSDT and the Dakar?
AF: Undoubtedly, to run it would be to fulfill a dream, the first one is possible that this year I will fulfill it and the second, time will tell, but I hope to be able to fulfill it as well.
TW: We wish you all the best!
AF: Thank you very much and see you in the trial races and in some enduro…
