Metro de Madrid

Deputy Regional Minister for Sports, Javier Hernández, accompanied by Metro de Madrid CEO Ignacio González Velayos today presented the 21st Comunidad de Madrid Indoor Trials, which will take place next Saturday, on 13 March, in the Palacio de los Deportes from 19.30 hours onwards. Hernández was accompanied at the presentation by Repsol Montesa-Honda rider Toni Bou, three times World Champion and current leader in the overall standings in this category.

Bou surprised those in attendance with some acrobatics astride his Montesa Cota 4rt. The Repsol rider won these trails for the last two years and will share the billings next Saturday with fellow riders Albert Cabestany, currently in second place in the overall standings, and Bou’s chief rival for the title, Adam Raga, four times world champion, Jeroni Fajardo, James Dabill, Takahisa Fujinami, Loris Gubian and Aexz Wigg.

Besides this, for the second year running Madrid rider Alfredo Gómez will take part, having been invited by the organisers on a wildcard ticket. The Cercedilla rider will bid to qualify in the first round so as to be able to take on the best riders in the world in what is a great chance provided by the event’s organisers.

Madrid could be decisive in the race for the title

The Madrid event will be more keenly contested than ever, as Albert Cabestany, the current world championship runner-up, and Toni Bou, currently defending the title, come to Madrid with only 5 points separating them in the overall standings. Both riders have put up a great fight for the title in the three World Championship trials to date.

British city Sheffield saw the start of the indoor championship and Bou emerged victorious as he began his defence of the world title won in 2009. The second trial, held in Marseilles, went to Cabestany, while in the third event in Barcelona victory was once again Toni Bou’s, followed by Albert Cabestany. It will also be interesting to see how the duel turns out between these two riders and four times world indoor champion Adam Raga.

Madrid will be the second Spanish city to host trials where points count towards the 2010 World Indoor Trials Championships, following the trip to Barcelona. The world championships will be decided in Palma, Majorca, which will host trials in this discipline for the first time in their history.

The Comunidad de Madrid Indoor Trials will this year include the novel idea of restoring bygone features and include zones comprising natural elements such as large rocks, tree-trunks and railway sleepers, which will make the competition more technical and spectacular than ever.

For the second year running Repsol Honda Moto GP’s official team has chosen the Comunidad de Madrid indoor trials to present the new motorbike that they will use in the 2010 World Championships due to start on 11 April in Qatar and end on 7 November on Valencia’s Cheste circuit.

Both Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso, the two official Repsol-Honda MotoGP team riders, will be present on 13 March in the Palacio de los Deportes of the Comunidad de Madrid to unveil the features and chief novelties of the Honda RC212V, which has evolved in terms of nearly all of its components and will be the motorbike used by both riders to compete in the 2010 World Championships.