the 2015 World Indoor World Championships As usual, the first title of the 2015 season starts at the start of the new year. The 2015 Indoor Trial (X-Trial) World Championship will travel through 5 countries over 6 scoring competitions that will be held over a period of 3 months.
The top favorite is Toni Bou, who in addition to holding 8 consecutive world titles in the modality, is unbeaten in this territory since January 2010, so he accumulates the spectacular figure of 26 consecutive victories. These figures, added to his extraordinary 2014 campaign where he has won all the titles he was eligible for, leave Toni Bou as a relentless favourite to beat.
The bigone will be his teammate, Takahisa Fujinami, who is still recovering from his knee and has his sights set on the outdoor world championships. However, his presence in some races on the indoor calendar is not ruled out on a one-off basis.
Another great expectation that Sheffield will arouse will be to see its main national rider, James Dabill, at the controls of the new Vertigo, a bike developed by Dougie Lampkin that for the first time in its short history will participate in a world championship event.
Alongside Dabill and Bou will be other big stars such as Jeroni Fajardo, who has already recovered from his shoulder injury, Adam Raga and Albert Cabestany.
The X-Trial World Championship calendar that will start in Sheffield (Great Britain) will have a total of six scoring events. Marseille (France, January 31) will be the second race. The town of Pau (France, 6 February), in the French Pyrenees, will host the third event, followed by the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona (Spain, 8 March), the doyenne of the competition. The series will close with races in Wiener Neustadt (Austria, 14 March) and Oviedo (Spain, 29 March).
Toni Bou: “The season starts right away. We can hardly celebrate the Christmas holidays with our loved ones, we only rest on Christmas Day and, the next day, we are already training again to prepare for Sheffield.
I won’t go out and defend the title. I’ve been there for eight now, and I’ll go out as usual: to win it. I want to have a good race in Sheffield, but it’s always quite complicated there because they are not very difficult races and a tight final is expected.
There are no changes compared to the season we finished, but we do have to fine-tune it with the specifications of an indoor race: a lot of control and power; It’s a difficult thing, but I think we’ve found the point.
I also want to go out there and win because I want to win as many races as possible. I know that one day this streak will end, but let it come the later, the better!
I’m really looking forward to getting back into competition. Since mid-November we have had several events: in Italy, in Japan… And I don’t train much. As soon as we have entered the month of December, our pre-season, we have intensified the preparation, both training and physical, and we have to do a good job now to be able to last the whole season.
Finally, I want to say that this year, although he will come in some races, I will miss ‘Fuji’. He’s always encouraged me a lot and he’s a great teammate. I suppose the audience will also miss him for the show he always put on, but the main thing is to recover and be at his best for Japan.”
Happy holidays and I hope 2015 brings us many successes!”
