Golden Bou’s no nugget
By TMX Archives on 1st Jun 12
TONI Bou created his very own Gold Rush as the Repsol Montesa star rode to a pair of convincing World Trials Championship wins in Australia, as rounds three and four of the series went down under for the first time in its 38-year history.
The venue for the event was Mount Tarrengower, an extinct volcano near the Victorian gold mining town of Maldon, some 70 miles north west of Melbourne.
Played out in front of large crowds, the second day attendance was estimated at around 8,000 – similar to that achieved at the early Hawkstone Park World Rounds – with the organisers' only problems being getting the spectators to the sections, especially on the first day when heavy rain on Friday (a rare occurrence in the area) made the going very muddy.
The sections were composed almost entirely of huge, rounded granite boulders (no hard edges) often piled one upon the other and interspersed with tempting gaps that were pretty intimidating, even for the experienced Championship riders.
The heavy rain on Friday and more rain on Saturday morning made for a really difficult test – and while reigning champ and series leader Bou was totally dominant even he had his moment.
Bou roared right to the lip of the 15-foot vertical climb at the seventh before losing grip and cartwheeled back to the bottom, followed by his bike, and he was lucky to escape serious injury.
No-one mastered this section on the opening lap but typically, second time round Toni bagged the only clean. Of the rest, only Jeroni Fajardo on the factory Beta saw the ends cards with a superb single dab ride.
On the opening lap Bou dropped just 17 marks to lead from team-mate Takahisa Fujinami on 32. Adam Raga dropped 35 on his opening circuit and no way was he going to get that defecit back over his arch rival Bou.
As he so often does, Bou got the full measure of the section on that opening circuit and on the second circuit he took the course apart logging an incredible 12 cleans, just two ones and a lone five, on section 13 - along with everyone else. On the opening lap only one person saw the ends cards on this one. You've guessed it - Bou, for a dab!
In the end Toni won by the incredible margin of 30 marks from Raga, with Sherco's Albert Cabestany just edging a disappointed Fujinami off the podium.
FOR FULL REPORT AND PICTURES SEE TMX NEWS JUNE 1
WORLD TRIALS CHAMPIONSHIP
Rd 2 – Mt Tarrengower, AUSTRALIA
DAY ONE
1 Toni Bou (E - Montesa) 17 + 7 = 24
2 Adam Raga (E - Gas Gas) 35 + 19 = 54
3 Albert Cabestany (E - Sherco) (13x0) 41 + 24 = 65
4 Takahisa Fujinami (J - Montesa) (11x0) 32 + 33 = 65
5 Jeroni Fajardo (E -Beta) 46 + 33 = 79
6 Danny Oliveras (E - Ossa) (4x0) 59 + 46 = 105
7 James DABILL (GB - Beta) (2x0) 58 + 47 = 105
8 Loris Gubian (F - Gas Gas) 60 + 56 = 116
9 Jack CHALLONER (GB - Beta) 60 + 58 = 118
10 Michael BROWN (GB - Gas Gas) 55 + 64 = 119
11 Pere Borrellas (E - Gas Gas) 66 + 59 = 125
12 Matteo Grattarola (I - Gas Gas) 67 + 65 = 132
13 Alexz WIGG (GB - Gas Gas) 66 + 68 = 134
DAY TWO
1 Toni Bou (E - Montesa) 3 + 7 = 10
2 Jeroni Fajardo (E -Beta) 5 + 14 = 19
3 Takahisa Fujinami (J - Montesa) 14 + 17 = 31
4 Adam Raga (E - Gas Gas) 30 + 3 = 33
5 Albert Cabestany (E - Sherco) 28 + 8 = 36
6 James DABILL (GB - Beta) 32 + 13 = 45
7 Jack CHALLONER (GB - Beta) 37 + 25 = 62
8 Matteo Grattarola (I - Gas Gas) 45 + 30 = 75
9 Loris Gubian (F - Gas Gas) 50 + 28 = 78
10 Danny Oliveras (E - Ossa) 51 + 32 = 83
11 Michael BROWN (GB - Gas Gas) 58 + 33 = 91
12 Pere Borrellas (E - Gas Gas) 54 + 48 = 102
13 Alexz WIGG (GB - Gas Gas) 56 + 52 = 108
SERIES STANDINGS after 2 (of 7) rounds: 1 Bou 77 points, 2 Raga 61, 3 Fajardo 58, 4 Cabestany 56, 5 Fujinami 52, 6 DABILL 39, 7 CHALLONER 32, 8 Gubian 28, 9 BROWN 27, 10 Oliveras 27, 11 Grattarola 26, 12 Borrellas 14, 13 WIGG 13, 14 Karlsson 4, 15 Tournour 3.
WORLD JUNIOR TRIALS CHAMPIONSHIP
DAY ONE
1 Alexandre Ferrer (F - Sherco) 25 + 27 = 52
2 Pol Tarres (E - JTG) 31 + 23 = 54
3 Francesc Moret (E - Montesa) 27 + 41 = 68
4 Jack SHEPPARD (GB - Beta) 41 + 30 = 71
5 Benoit Dagnicourt (F - Beta) 48 + 34 = 82
6 Hakon Pedersen (N - Sherco) 46 + 31 = 77
7 Jake Whittaker (NZ - Beta) 51 + 42 = 93
8 Kyle Middleton (AUS - Gas Gas) 56 + 61 = 117
9 Timothy Coleman (AUS - Gas Gas) 67 + 59 = 126
10 Boyd Willcocks (AUS - Gas Gas) 73 + 69 = 142
11 Chris Bayles (AUS - Gas Gas) 70 + 75 = 145
DAY TWO
1 Alexandre Ferrer (F - Sherco) 12 + 3 = 15
2 Francesc Moret (E - Montesa) 25 + 6 = 31
3 Benoit Dagnicourt (F - Beta) 23 + 9 = 32
4 Jack SHEPPARD (GB - Beta) 20 + 15 = 35
5 Jake Whittaker (NZ - Beta) 20 + 18 = 38
6 Pol Tarres (E - JTG) 26 + 13 = 39
7 Hakon Pedersen (N - Sherco) 33 + 22 = 55
8 Kyle Middleton (AUS - Gas Gas) 50 + 37 = 87
9 Timothy Coleman (AUS - Gas Gas) 60 + 44 = 104
10 Boyd Willcocks (AUS - Gas Gas) 60 + 54 = 114
11 Chris Bayles (AUS - Gas Gas) 71 + 66 = 137
SERIES STANDINGS after 2 (of 7) rounds: 1 Ferrer 80 points, 2 Tarres 53, 3 Moret 59, 4 Dagnicourt 50, 5 SHEPPARD 39, 6 Tempier 30, 7 Pedersen 27, 8 Warenghien 23, 9 Whittaker 20, 10 Casales 17, 11 Middleton 16, 12 Mottin 15, 13 Coleman 14, 14 Saleri 13, 15 Willcocks 12,...
FIM YOUTH TRIALS CHAMPIONSHIP
DAY ONE
1 Steven Coquelin (F - Gas Gas) 9 + 11 = 20
2 Bradley COX (GB - Beta) 23 + 14 = 37
3 Sverre Lundevold (N - Beta) 40 + 20 = 60
4 John Hayes (AUS - Beta) 57 + 56 = 113
5 Jonathan Chellas (AUS - Gas Gas) 67 + 60 = 127
6 Sam King (AUS - Beta) (1x0) 62 + 66 = 128
7 Blake Fox (NZ - Gas Gas) (0x0) 63 + 65 = 128
DAY TWO
1 Steven Coquelin (F - Gas Gas) 16 + 3 = 19
2 Bradley COX (GB - Beta) 11 + 9 = 20
3 Sverre Lundevold (N - Beta) 14 + 8 = 22
4 Blake Fox (NZ - Gas Gas) 58 + 35 = 93
5 John Hayes (AUS - Beta) 54 + 41 = 95
6 Sam King (AUS - Beta) 57 + 46 = 103
7 Jonathan Chellas (AUS - Gas Gas) 68 + 53 = 121
SERIES STANDINGS after 2 (of 7) rounds: 1 Coquelin 75 points, 2 COX 68, 3 Lundevold 57, 4 Oriol Noguera 28, 5 Hayes 24, 6 Francesco Cabrini 24, 7 Fox 22, 8 Chellas 20, 9 King 20, 10 Carles De Caudemberg Quentin 18, 11 Martin Pochez 16, 12 Luke WALKER 15, 13 Pietro Petrangeli 14, 14 Martin Matejicek 13, 15 Timo Myohanen 10,... 17 Tom DEXTER 7,... 20 Bradley BULLOCK 2,...
NEXT ROUND: June 2/3 – Twin Ring Motegi, JAPAN.
