Toni Bou has won his 18th outdoor world title after reaching the necessary mathematical distance in the general classification, with 40 points still at stake.
To consolidate this feat, it was enough for him to finish ahead of his teammate in the French GP, held in Cahors, but Toni went further, signing his ninth victory of the season out of ten possible.
In other words, they have scored 197 out of a possible 200 points.
The French TrialGP was held on a single day, as was the Belgian GP.
In an environment of areas where natural terrain has been combined with artificial terrain, where large steps in the purest indoor style predominated, the scores have been quite high on average, except for the first four classified.
Toni started the trial badly, with a fiasco in an area a priori accessible to him, but he quickly got into the race and would only penalize one more point until the end of the first lap, allowing him to lead the race very comfortably over his closest rival, Jaime Busto, who scored 21 points in this first lap.
Gabriel Marcelli, who has the pressure of defending the provisional runner-up position, was third at the end of the first lap, one point behind Raga, second.
However, on the second and final lap he could not stop the great performance of Jaime Busto, who set a scratch lap with only 2 points.
Finally, Marcelli managed to retain the third step of the podium in extremis with a single point advantage over Raga, who closed that “top 4” of outstanding riders.
Now the excitement is in the fight for the runner-up position, which will be decided in the Spanish GP, with two scoring races.
GERARD TRUEBA WINS IN TRIAL2
In the Trial2 category we are witnessing a very exciting race.
The victory was decided in the last zone, when Alex Canales, leader so far, made a fiasco and fell to fifth position.
This fiasco was taken advantage of by Gerard Trueba and Sondre Haga, who completed the race with six points and in the tiebreaker the young Beta rider took the cat, who had already added an important podium this year.
With this victory, Gerard enters the history of Spanish riders with a victory in the world championship in the intermediate category.
The second, in discord, was Sondre Haga with his electric GASGAS, after a spectacular second lap.
The podium was completed by the leader of the category and main favorite for the title: Jack Peace.
It will be very difficult for Arnau Farré to cut the 21 points of distance with the 40 that are at stake.
More exciting will be to see what happens for third place, if Canales is able to preserve and even attack Farré, or if Billy Green is able to enter these positions of honor.
TRIAL3.
HEMINGWAY DOMINATES
In Trial3 there were no surprises.
The reigning World Champion, George Hemingway, added his seventh victory out of a possible eight.
Second was Pablo Echene and third Pawel Ryncarz.
In the championship we have Sum Euan as runner-up and Romeo Piquet third.
BERTA ABELLÁN WINS TRIALGP WOMEN
Berta Abellán has added her second victory of the season after a very consistent and effective race.
She cuts three more points to Emma Bristow, who was second, and has the title fight ten points behind.
Third was Sofía Rabino, who also retains this position in the general classification.
The outcome of the TrialGP World Championship will take place in Ripoll on September 14 and 15.
You can watch our extended chronicle of the French GP with Jeroni Fajardo in the following youtube video.
TRIAL-GP CLASSIFICATION france 2024
TRIAL GP france · 2024
- TONI BOU (MONTESA)
- JAIME BUSTO (GASGAS)
- GABRIEL MARCELLI (MONTESA)
- ADAM RAGA (SHERCO)
- JORGE CASALES (TRRS)
- ANIOL GELABERT (TRRS)
- HUGO DUFRESE (GASGAS)
- MIQUEL GELABERT (VERTIGO)
- MATTEO GRATTAROLA (BETA)
- BENOIT BINCAZ (SHERCO)
- LORENZO GANDOLA (BETA)
