Repsol Honda Trial Team, ready for X-Trial Madrid

The third event of the FIM X-Trial World Championship is set to take place in
Madrid this coming Saturday, 2 April. The Spanish capital will once again host a
world championship trial after a ten-year absence and will feature the presence of
both Repsol Honda Trial Team riders, Toni Bou and Gabriel Marcelli.

After a ten-year hiatus the FIM X-Trial World Championship makes its return to
Madrid with an unbeaten Toni Bou having clinched the top honours at the two
opening trials in Nice and Chalon-sur-Saône. Bou currently sits at the head of the
world championship table with a 13-point advantage over the nearest second-placed
rider.

Repsol Honda team will once again be represented in full, with Gabriel Marcelli lining
up alongside the incumbent champion for the Madrid Arena event, as he aims to find
the right feelings after his world championship debut last weekend.

Since 2008, Toni Bou has claimed consecutive wins at the last five editions of the
Madrid X-Trial. Gabriel Marcelli, meanwhile, will be debuting in front of the fans in
the Spanish capital, after having competed earlier in Bilbao, Granada and Barcelona
in 2019 and 2020.

The Madrid Arena will also make its debut as a host venue for an X-Trial event, with
previous events having been held at the Palacio de Deportes. The competition gets
underway at 20:00.

TONI BOU
We arrive in Madrid this weekend after a great win in France where we saw that it’s
important to always be alert as the slightest mistake can make the difference as
there is so little dividing the competitors and anyone can pull a surprise. I am sure
that the crowd in Madrid will be behind us as they have always done, and even more
so after such a long time without hosting an X-Trial event. We hope to put on a great
show for them.

GABRIEL MARCELLI
In my debut in France last weekend I think I made some mistakes that, obviously, I
can't repeat in the trial in Madrid. I am very happy to be able to compete in Spain
once again, and for the first time in Madrid, and I am confident that I can do well in
spite of my lack of experience in this type of competition. We are going to give it
everything we've got and we hope that it will be a great trial and hope that the
spectators enjoy it.