The Repsol rider wins in Germany while his team mate Takahisa Fujinami accompanies him on the podium. Laia Sanz, twelfth in the junior category
Toni Bou was the winner of the first round of the Trial Outdoor World Championship that started this Sunday in the German city of Gefrees. Positive start for the Repsol rider in a championship he has won the last four years.
Despite the handicap of being forced to open de zones, very slippery due to last evening’s rain, Bou finished the first part in the lead and increased his advantage in the second.
His team mate at the Repsol Montesa Honda Team, Takahisa Fujinami took the third position, only one point behind the second, after getting the best points result of the day in the second part. Laia Sanz finished twelfth -98 points- in the junior category.
The second round of the Outdoor Championship will be the French Grand Prix next weekend in Bréal-sous-Montfort.
Toni Bou
“Being the first to go out, with no references apart from the visual ones, makes thinks very complicated and is tough. Specially if it has rained and you do not know how slippery they are. So it was a very difficult trial that we finished with the best possible outcome. Undoubtedly the best way to start the defence of the title against rivals that will not make thinks easy for us”.
Takahisa Fujinami
“Starting with this result is not bad at all, a pity that I lost the second position for just one point. In the first lap I tried new set-up configurations for the bike under very difficult conditions. In the second I felt completely at ease with it, the bike worked well and I think the score speaks volumes”.
Laia Sanz
“My assessment of the result is positive. I set myself the aim to be in a point-scoring position of the junior class and I achieved it. Nevertheless, my first lap was a disaster. If I had focused as in the second, in which I improved a lot, I think I could have been in seventh or eighth position”.
