The 2020 Trial World Championship is getting ready to start on the first weekend of September after the forced delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic worldwide. The calendar will consist of four Grands Prix that will be held over two rounds.
It will be an atypical World Cup, with a very intense calendar, and therefore with very little margin for error for the favourites. In this 2020 edition, France, where the event starts, Spain, Andorra and Italy will be visited.
The first meeting point will be from 4 to 6 September in the French town of Isola 2000. A ski slope that has hosted several scoring events for the world championship and with great experience in high-competition trials. It will be a race where all the categories are cited: Trial GP, Trial GP Women, Trial 2, Trial 2 Women, Trial 125 and Trial-E.
The director of the trial commission at the FIM, Michaud, expressed his desire to start the sporting activity. “The publication of the provisional list of registrants is great news after the doubts and uncertainties of these months. We must thank the efforts of the FIM administration and all those involved.” In addition, he asks for special attention and collaboration to pilots and companions, so that they “prepare and adapt to a competition in unprecedented conditions.”
TrialGP
Toni Bou will be looking to win his 14th outdoor world title and will have great rivals in front of him who will be eager for his chance to break the hegemony. The strongest is, a priori, Adam Raga, leader of the national and the main competitor in recent years of the Montesa rider.
We must also count on Jorge Casales, Jaime Busto and Jeroni Fajardo, without forgetting others such as Fujinami or Gelabert.
Trial2
With Marcelli’s promotion to the top category, the favourite is once again the 2018 Champion, Matteo Grattarola, who will have strong competition ahead of him from young drivers who will seek, with their consistency, to complicate the title for an Italian rider who, as a novelty, competes this year with Beta.
Trial 125
The eighth litre is a category in which everything is yet to be defined. The main favourites of 2019 will not be in the category and Spanish riders such as Alex Canales or Pau Martinez are sounding strong.
Trial E
Electric trial bikes will also take centre stage this season and the main favourite is Albert Cabestany, 2019 World Champion at the controls of an electric Gas Gas TXE.
TrialGP Women and Trial2 Women
In the women’s category, Emma Bristow is seeking her seventh crown. The British rider remains unbeaten since the last round of 2017. Ahead will be the Spanish riders Berta Abellán and Sandra Gómez, who are waiting for their chance to climb to the top of the podium. In Trial2 Women, the main favourites are Britain’s Alicia Robinson and Germany’s Sophia ter Jung.
FRENCH TRIAL GRAND PRIX 2020
Isola 2000 will also see the start of the TrialE World Championship, reserved for electric trial motorcycles, and the Women’s Trial World Championship, both in the Woman GP and Woman 2 categories.
SPANISH TRIAL GRAND PRIX 2020
Just one week after the French Grand Prix, on September 11, 12 and 13, the Spanish Grand Prix will be held in Pobladura de las Regueras also with two scoring races, in charge of the Pobladura R Motoclub. Precisely in this town of El Bierzo a test of the Spanish Trial Championship will be held on July 11 and 12.
In Pobladura we will also see the women in action, so all the categories will be present, except TrialE.
ANDORRA TRIAL GRAND PRIX 2020
Andorra is another of the traditional locations of the Trial World Championship. Very close to Toni Bou’s residence and training centre, the Andorran GP will also be held over a double-header between 18 and 20 September. Here we will see the same categories of the Spanish GP and the particularity will be that the women will conclude their 2020 season here.
ITALIAN TRIAL GRAND PRIX
The Italian Grand Prix comes with a small two-week respite after six scoring races in three weeks. Between 9 and 11 October, riders from all categories, including TrialE and except for women, are summoned to Tolmezzo (Italy), where the 2020 season will officially conclude
