On The Pegs April 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 4 | Page 120

On The Pegs
Toni Bou was again victorious in
Granada as the world championship
reached its fourth round. The Repsol
Honda Team rider takes his tally of top
flight victories to sixty in the indoor
competition. This third victory of the
season sees Bou distance himself fur-
ther at the head of the overall champi-
onship leader board.
It has been over ten years since the
Municipal Sports Palace of Granada
hosted an FIM X-Trial World Champion-
ship event. On the previous two oc-
casions it was also Bou who took top
honors in the competition. Bou arrived
in Granada as overall leader, after hav-
ing retaken the overall top spot seven
days ago in Bilbao.
Bou made short work of the first
phase to comfortably qualify for the
second round, after taking the best
score on the first run through sections,
collecting just two penalty marks.
GasGas riders Jaime Busto and Jeroni
Fajardo were second and third posi-
tions respectively. This put the GasGas
riders in the same group as Benoit Bin-
caz. This made for an exciting three-
way duel in which the Basque rider
came out on top and gave him his
direct pass to the grand final. Unfortu-
nately, a mistake in the last zone left
Jeroni Fajardo out of the fight for the
podium. In the final Jaime Busto finally
came second, getting the best result
for GasGas so far this season.
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