Normally in sports betting houses the option to bet on the trial does not appear anywhere, it would not make sense. For more than 16 years now, Toni Bou he has blocked the world titles and most of the victories, and he is on his way to continue like this… Like every event in which he appears, the Catalan was a favorite in the start of the Indoor World Championship in the X-Trial of Barcelona and he took his first win of the season fulfilling the forecasts, although it was by no means a walk in front of his fans.
For those who expected Bou to sweep from minute one, surely the majority, the first round was a surprise. There was a rider who only scored a penalty point, but it wasn’t Piera’s, but his old teammate at Repsol Honda, Bust, now with the GasGas. Except for that small mistake in the first zone (which gave everyone problems), the Basque he made the perfect start that put him in the lead ahead of Raga (three points) and the aforementioned Bou, who tied on five points with Englishman Martyn and Fajardo.
In the second round there was an exchange of roles. With only three passes to the final among the nine drivers and that three-way tie for third place, Bou did not want to be scared and replicated Busto’s initial result with a single penalty point. This time it was the one from GasGas who added five. Both were planted in the final with six and Marcelli, with the other Honda, left Raga without third place. They both had nine points, but Gabriel had a round with a lower score (7+2) than Adam (3+6) and it earned him a place in the Spanish final three-way.
The moment of truth has arrived, the one that requires tempering the nerves, and there is no one better than Bou. Despite the fact that Marcelli was the one who began by commanding the passage through the first zone with three points from five of his rivals, from there the champion would only add two more goals to finish the five zones (the second one was canceled because an obstacle broke in its path) with seven. His Repsol Honda teammate would be second with 13 and Busto, who started the best on Sunday, closed the podium with 17. Bou already has the first one. The next one is played on 11-M in Austria.
Results X-Trial Barcelona
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