So easy four Bou
By TMX Archives on 3rd Jun 15
TONI Bou is romping towards a ninth consecutive FIM Trial World Championship following his fourth successive victory in the 2015 series thanks to two wins at last weekends second round in the Czech Republic and after his pair of victories in the opening round in Japan.
While the seemingly unbeatable Repsol Montesa team leader was clocking up the wins Adam Raga put the problems of the Gas Gas situation to the back of his mind to take a pair of confidence-boosting runner-up berths on his factory bike, his team operating from the Spanish Federation squad truck.
Sherco's Albert Cabestany and Jeroni Fajardo on the Beta shared the third places out as no-one could maintain the consistency to match Bou and Raga who head the Championship.
And James Dabill gave up-and-coming Vertigo their best TWC result to date, with a fighting fifth on the opening day that could easily have been a podium.
In the World Cup there was a double victory for French ace Quentin Carles de Caudemberg who now leads the Championship – but the great news for Britain was a pair of solid second places for North East 17-year-old Billy Bolt.
Having finished second in the previous week's British Championship round at Scarborough on an Ossa, Billy's sponsor Nigel Birkett switched him to a brand-new Scorpa for the Czech trial.
And Billy was sensational first time out on a completely standard 300 model.
Yorkshire teenager Jack Price also bagged a haul of points on his B&B blinged Gas Gas and Iwan Roberts – first time out in 2015 as the Welsh Champ missed Japan – opened his TWC account well.
Dan Peace has scored points on all four days held so far and Dec Bullock bagged a point on the first day in a great weekend for the World Cup Brits.
The brand new venue for a World Trials Championship at Sokolov was a total contrast to the predominantly man-made sections of Twin Ring Motegi, Japan, with a seemingly never-ending series of ultra-steep natural climbs in a wooded area overlooking a lake, made more interesting by slippery bedrock and tree roots.
The event was also something of a trial of two halves with Saturday being held with the terrain in very wet, slippery condition thanks to heavy overnight rain while Sunday was staged in sunny, much drier conditions – and even with several modified sections to make the most of the terrain and the better weather.
FOR FULL REPORT & PICTURES SEE TMX NEWS, THURSDAY, JUNE 4 (ISSUE 1974)
