The Spanish Tony Bou (Repsol Montesa Honda) will start this weekend in the town of Tarragona Hospital of the Infante its world title defense in external trials. The said town, which has been on the championship calendar since 1975, will host the launch of this new World Cup in the team’s open air. Repsol-Hondato fight again to win a new title for its riders, Toni Bou and Gabriel Marcelli.
The current world champion, Tony BouSi, winner of 19 races in Spain, is the big favorite to claim his 16th outside title at the end of the season, which will start after capturing his 125th victory in the final race of 2021.
Now in 2022, the Repsol rider has excelled in the four X-Trial races held so far, while his partner, the young Galician Gabriel Marcelli, will make his debut in the 2022 formation, after showing his huge potential in previous seasons. Marcelli had a good season at home, he was able to climb to second place on the podium in the Madrid race and his goal for the outdoor championship was to try to finish on the podium in several races on the calendar.
The first round of the world championship will be played over two days and riders will have to traverse twelve zones of the route, located on the dry river of Llastres, up to twice, with a total of twelve kilometers per lap. The TrialGP World Championship calendar will continue with stops on Andorra, Germany, Belgium and France before finishing in the Italian town of Wood Bridgein the province of Brescia of Italy, in mid -September.
Tony Bou He assured the Repsol team’s press release that “this year is the time I was physically better at the start of the World Cup, because that was also when we started the indoor season and now we are very good”. “We prepared hard but, in any case, when it started, we had to work hard, but we came with so much enthusiasm and there is an expectation to see what we do in the competitionbut we start the season at home, both at the Hospitalet and in San Julià de Lòria ”, explains Bou.
“It will be a short championshipwith high temperatures in the months of June to September and, on the other hand, both the usual rival, also the Spaniard Adam Raga, and the other riders, have improved their level and are more dangerous, but for to me it is a motivation to further continue the fight for the victories that can come “, explained Toni Bou. The schedule for the outdoor test world championship is as follows:
June 11-12 Hospitalet del Infante Spain
June 18-19 Sant Julià de Lòria Andorra
9-10 July Neunkirchen Germany
Aug. 21 Comblain-au-Pont Belgium
28 August Cahors France
17-18 September Ponte di Legno Italy
Source: La Verdad
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