Toni Bou poised as X-Trial heads towards final stretch
By Jason Bellinger on 18th Mar 16
Round 3 of the FIM X-Trial World Championship will be held this weekend in Austria as the Arena Nova in Wiener Neustadt hosts the penultimate date of the indoor competition.
Repsol Honda Team's Toni Bou currently sits at the head of a very tight overall leaderboard.
The current situation is very different from last year's one. Toni Bou came away from the same venue a year ago having clinched a ninth consecutive world championship.
This season's event will be key to how the very close championship battle unfolds. It is unlikely, however, that anyone will make off with the title this weekend in Wiener Neustadt, but victory should prove a giant leap towards it, with just the one round remaining in two weeks time.
A win in Barcelona saw Bou equal Adam Raga in the overall standings of a drastically reduced four-event X-Trial calendar.
Wiener Neustadt will see Toni Bou accompanied by sidekick Takahisa Fujinami who has posted fifth place in the two previous championship outings.
In Barcelona the Japanese ace narrowly missed out on a place in the final, something that he will look to rectify this weekend.
