Victorious return for Toni Bou in the Trial World Championship season opener

I am super happy with today's victory. I want to thank Dr. Joaquim Terricabras, Oriol Nevot, the physio, and all the team and family for the great work they have done during this last month so that I could be here today. From the first day of this tough month we have worked to get here, and in the end, we have achieved it and with a victory too. Physically, I wasn’t expecting to win, so I'm even happier. In general, I felt better during the first lap, but after being penalized in section three I started to feel discomfort that got worse. Over this last month I have hardly been able to train, so on the second lap I have made a few more mistakes as my whole body was tired by then, but even so, I am very happy with the job done. Tomorrow will be very hard as I will be even more tired, but I will give it my all, as always.

Today the first trial of the world championship was held, but we have not competed for a long time and at the beginning it was tough for me to find the race pace. By the second lap I was beginning to improve in the sections in which I had made mistakes on the first lap. I'm happy with my riding, but not so happy with the result. We are confident for tomorrow, so we'll go all out to improve on these results.

As always today Toni Bou gave it his best shot. After the injury, when you see him riding and racing again, the truth is that it puts you at ease. We know that despite not being at 100% physically fit, Toni's level is outrageous and he is always ahead. The truth is that today, if he had just made the podium, we would have been happy, but he always wants more. I want to congratulate him and thank the team doctor Joaquim Terricabras and the physiotherapist Oriol Nevot, they are the reasons why Toni was able to win today after the injury. Tomorrow won't be easy for Toni after today, but I'm sure he'll do his best.