Repsol Honda ready for X-Trial start in Hungary
By Press Release on 16th Jan 19
Toni Bou and Takahisa Fujinami will be two of the riders who will open the FIM X-Trial World Championship next Sunday in Budapest, Hungary. Bou, starting as champion, will be on the hunt for a 13th indoor title.
The Laszlo Papp Sports Palace in Budapest will be the setting for the start of a new edition of the X-Trial World Championship.This Sunday, January 20, indoor trial ridings finest arrive in the Hungarian capital, where the season finished last year.
Bou starts the campaign with the clear objective of recapturing the title once again. However the first race of the year will be no walk in the park for the Repsol Honda ace: a rib injury suffered in December forced absolute rest and hampered his preseason training schedule. However, over recent weeks Bou has been able to return to action and, after competing in Sheffield, is ready to kick off the X-Trial World Championship calendar.
Team mate Fujinami will be one of the guest riders for the opening indoor season event. The tenacious character of the Japanese veteran should see him vying for a podium place.
The season schedule will feature seven events. After the premiere in Hungary, there will be three consecutive dates in Spain, first in Barcelona, then Bilbao which debuts this year. Granada, Spain will mark the seasons next stop-off, before the campaign heads to Marseille.
Next comes a transoceanic trial as the tournament crosses the Atlantic to Costa Rica where X-Trial will hold its first Central American event. The championship wraps up in Andorra, on April 27.
Bous record in indoor competition is remarkable. He holds a string of 12 consecutive indoor championship titles (2007-2018) having been victorious on 56 occasions a 70 per cent win rate. Between 2012 and 2015 he achieved a record of 23 wins on the spin.
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