Toni Bou (Montesa) continued his domination of the TrialGP class of the 2026 Hertz FIM Trial World Championship with a pair of convincing race victories on day one of round four – the TrialGP of Great Britain – while Andrea Sofia Rabino (Beta) twice defeated defending TrialGP Women champion Berta Abellan (Scorpa) on a wet and windy day at the Trac Mon Circuit Anglesey in Wales.
  • TrialGP of Great Britain marks halfway point of 2026 Hertz FIM Trial World Championship
  • Toni Bou and Andrea Sofia Rabino on top in premier TrialGP and TrialGP Women classes
  • Strong showing from home riders on day one at Trac Mon Circuit Anglesey

There was success for home riders in Trial2 where Harry Turner (Sherco) and George Hemingway (Beta) shared the race victories and more in Trial3 Juniors with Harison Skelton (Scorpa) claiming a double win as Poland’s Justyna Lonycz and Britain’s Matilda Arbon took turns at the top of Trial2 Women.

With the recent heatwave giving way to much less temperate conditions as the seven-round series reached the halfway point, the sections grouped around the Anglesey headland proved to be extremely technical with almost too much traction in some places on the sharp, coastline rocks and virtually none to be found in others as the day progressed.
Bou, however, is the master of finding grip and with his pinpoint precision the sublime Spaniard – who has now won all thirteen races staged so far as he closes in on a twentieth consecutive crown – topped Friday’s Super Test to determine starting positions before tightening his grip on the title with a pair of commanding performances today.

It was his compatriot Jaime Busto (Beta) who pushed him hardest in both races and the twenty-nine-year-old kept the pressure on in race one all the way to section eight. With the leading pair locked together on six after both needed a single dab on section two before the entire field took a maximum at section four, Bou moved into a clear lead with a clean to Busto’s two and the thirty-nine-year-old – despite further failures on nine and ten – ended the race with an eleven-mark winning margin.

Roared on by the passionate crowd, Britain’s Harry Hemingway (Beta) – in his debut season in the premier class – put in an inspired performance to post a career-best third in the opening race after losing a tie-break with Busto. There was then a four-mark gap to Spain’s Gabriel Marcelli (Montesa) who fought through the pain of a fractured finger to take fourth on a tie-break from Italian veteran Matteo Grattarola (Beta) with home hero Jack Peace (Sherco) completing the top six.

After getting race two under way with victory in Super Pole, Bou seized an immediate lead alongside Grattarola with a clean in the Final’s opening section before moving clear with a dab in the following hazard where Busto was the only other rider to escape without a maximum.

Despite a tight schedule that saw the whole field incur time penalties, Bou kept his cool and did not pick up a single five as he maintained control into the Super Final stage and ran out winner on twelve marks lost, half the total collected by Busto who took second on a tie-break with Grattarola.

“It has been an amazing start to the championship,” said Bou. “We have been working hard to get these results and I am super-happy to win on day one here at Anglesey.”

Back in seventh in the opening race, Spain’s Miquel Gelabert (Honda) – riding the sole electric machine in the class – improved to fourth on a total of twenty-nine, two ahead of Peace, with Marcelli clearly in pain as he slipped to sixth on thirty-five, three ahead of a disappointed Hemingway.
Since the start of the season Abellan and Rabino have gone head-to-head at the front of the TrialGP Women class and today it was the turn of the twenty-year-old Italian to claim a double win from the reigning champion.

A five in the Super Test had put Rabino on the back foot at the start of the day, but she kept a cool head as she led the field away and despite single dabs on sections three and seven, a further one-mark loss on section eight tied her at the top with early leader Abellan who needed a three. Completing the race for the loss of just one more mark, Rabino claimed her fourth race win of the year when Abellan added another three to her total.

Also in contention until adding five marks in the final two sections, Britain’s Alice Minta (Beta) was third on eight to give her a four-mark cushion over Italy’s Alessia Bacchetta with Czech rider Denisa Pechackova completing the top five on fourteen.

Abellan held the early advantage in race two until a maximum on section seven demoted her to third behind Rabino and Minta and while she was never able to get back on level terms with her Italian rival who claimed the win on thirteen, her final total of fifteen was good enough for second after a late maximum by Minta dropped the British rider to third on nineteen.

France’s Alycia Soyer improved from seventh in race one to take fourth on twenty-four, one clear of British rider Kaytlyn Adshead.
Heading to his home round on the back of a double race win on the second day of last month’s TrialGP of Italy, Turner maintained his momentum to take a narrow victory in race one from Spain’s Arnau Farré (Sherco) who started the day holding second in the points.

Turner was looking good for a faultless performance before losing three in the penultimate hazard, but still took the decision on a tie-break before a five-mark gap to series leader Alex Canales (Montesa) who continued his run of consistent results to lead home Italian Francesco Titli (Montesa) on nine and Hemingway on twelve.

A maximum on section two in the second race proved expensive for Turner and although he fought back into contention, back-to-back fives on sections ten and eleven ended his hopes of another double win as Hemingway took the victory on twelve, six clear of early leader Jack Dance.

Turner completed the all-British top three on twenty after taking a tie-break from French rider Benoit Bincaz (Electric Motion) with Canales’ total of twenty-three good enough for fifth to allow the Spanish twenty-one-year-old to maintain control of the class.

“The conditions today were really difficult,” said Turner. “The first lap was almost too grippy and the second lap was incredibly slippery and it was hard to stay on the right lines.”
After opening the campaign last time out in Italy, competitors in Trial2 Women were back in action and in the absence of Spain’s injured series leader Queralt Fontdevila (Beta) it was Lonycz who drew first blood with victory in the opening race on a score of eleven, one clear of a tie-break for second won by Spain’s Abril Montserrat Junque (Beta) from Wilde Moi (Beta) from Norway with Arbon fourth on fifteen.

A narrow victory in race two on a score of sixteen, one clear of Spain’s Daniela Hernando (Beta), was enough to move Arbon into a slim series lead, but Lonycz’s third-placed finish on twenty saw the rising Polish star end the day on the top step of the podium.

“The first race was perfect for me,” said Lonycz, “and while the second race was not quite as good I am still really happy and I am hoping for another win tomorrow.”
This season’s battle for supremacy in Trial3 Junior has been fierce with Italy’s Fabio Mazzola leading the way from Skelton, Spain’s Oriol Garcia Campano (Sherco) and Marco Laure (Beta) from Germany and on home ground it was Skelton who took control.

On a low-scoring day when the smallest mistake was punished, Skelton won race one on a tie-break with Mazzola after the pair finished on two marks each with Garcia Campano third on five. The British teenager then kept his cool through a tense second race to win on six with Mazzola second on ten, seven ahead of Laure.

“It feels really good to be back in the top spot again,” said Skelton. “The sections were incredible, but super-slippery and in places it was really hard to keep my feet up.”

With much better weather forecast for tomorrow, Sunday’s action at Trac Mon Circuit Anglesey will get under way at 09:00 (local time).
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