2022 FIM TrialGP of Spain Results

Cycle News Staff | June 13, 2022

The 2022 FIM TrialGP Championship got underway in Spain, June 11-12, and it was Vertigo Factory Team’s Jaime Busto who fired the first shot.

2022 FIM TrialGP of Spain podium — **Jaime Busto stood at the top of the podium to kick off the 2022 FIM TrialGP Championship in Spain.**

Photos Courtesy of Honda HRC

In the two-day competition, Busto out-dueled defending champ Toni Bou in the heat, dropping 29 points to Bou’s 35. This was the first time since 2016 that Bou didn’t win the opening round of the championship. For Busto, it was his second career victory and the first-ever TrialGP victory for the Spanish manufacturer Vertigo.

“Today has been incredible,” said Busto, “and I’m so happy to start the season like this. The bike and the team have been incredible and I’m looking forward to tomorrow.”

“It’s always better to start the TrialGP Championship winning, but, as far as the trial went, second position is not bad,” reasoned Bou. “I started the event pretty badly, but then I was able to recover. It was a tough trial, with a lot of heat and some very demanding sections. It was easy to make mistakes, in fact, I made a lot of errors and, physically, I wasn’t at 100 percent, either. So, after such a difficult day, I think that a second place today is a good result for the beginning of the championship.”

Toni Bou at 2022 FIM TrialGP of Spain — **Defending champ Toni Bou bounced back to win day two after placing second on Saturday.**

Repsol Honda’s new team manager Takahisa Fujinami said, “In such a high-level championship, there is no room for errors. Toni made a mistake in the first section, which weighed on him and meant that he had to ride against the tide for the whole race. From then on, he had to take risks to try to recover points in the sections in which he could have taken advantage.”

It didn’t take Bou long to get back to his winning ways, but it was a hard-fought win. Bou and Busto battled all day again, but this time Bou came out on top, just one point ahead of Busto.

“I’m very happy because today I felt much better than yesterday,” Bou said. “I felt more comfortable, but Jaime rode an incredible trial again today. We were both very good, we made very few mistakes.”

GasGas rider Miquel Gelabert and TRRS rider Adam Raga traded a piece of the podium over the weekend. CN