Toni Bou achieves legendary status with a ninth Trial World Championship title

Nine titles! I’m really pleased. Today it seemed that the trial would have been more complicated but in the end it was quite an easy one. These victories in easier trials are really important for boosting morale and as I said before, the high level of the rivals forced me to raise my game. I want to thank my folk, my parents, my girlfriend and all the team members who have worked so hard to help achieve this title. Thanks a lot to all.

It was a really tight one, but I picked up a fault in section two and I just missed out on the podium. It was a pity because I felt great today and I would have loved to have accompanied Toni onto the podium. I’ve had really good feelings all weekend on the Montesa Cota 4RT and I think that it has shown in my riding and in the results. There’s still one event left this year to try and make it onto the podium.

Today I tried to make up for the result yesterday but I continued to have a lot of back trouble. It was a bit frustrating because I couldn’t manage to improve on yesterday’s points in most of the sections. I only hope that I am able to recover this week to be able to finish the year off well and get this bad result behind me.

First off, I would like to congratulate Toni Bou for his ninth world title in Outdoor. What he is achieving here is something that, in the world of trial, is going to be really difficult to outdo. The team result today wasn’t a bad one. Jaime almost got onto the podium. That will be an objective for next weekend. Fujinami did all that he could, considering his physical condition. Once again, I want to repeat, behind every great rider there is a great team. I want to congratulate everyone for their professional work. People might think that this is easy, but I can assure them that it is not. We have been winning titles for many years, but there were also many years when we didn’t win them. Repsol Honda Team has been doing really well for some years now and that’s been the result of teamwork and the factory. I would like to congratulate the people from HRC too, who are with us, form part of the team and are constantly working to improve on the bikes. These results come thanks to them too. Congratulations to all those who collaborate with the team including the doctors, physios and we thank them for their work with the riders. Many thanks to all and congratulations.