S26 - E06 | X-Trial Madrid (Spain) 🇪🇸 | Final

So, the final order is ready. Busto will go first, followed by Arnaud Ferre, Gaffrey Martelli and Tony Bowe. Riders will ride every section, it's basically doubled in length, except for section 2 that will be run in reverse to how it was in the qualifying. So, we'll see Busto start here. He'll ride this entire section forwards and backwards. And then, in a slightly different format to the qualifying heat, we'll then watch the other three finalists do this section before they move on to section 2. So, a minute's ride each section. Big double step now though. Oh, look at that. Busto firing up there, no problem. Will he try and keep the momentum going here? Yeah, he does. And now, plenty of time. It's a simple start for Busto. Oh, it's so exciting when these finals get underway. The tension in every moment is so important. What a moment we've got here for Arnaud Ferre. He's in a final at X-Trial. He's going to want to make this count. Here he goes. Spot spotted. Arnaud is ready to unleash. Oh, easily. Oh, brilliant side race. Sends that to back wheel too. Opportunity is his for him. He's right back in this final hunt. Oh, it's a big double. Busto made this look easy, but I'm sure it isn't. Let's go. Oh, boy. Life work. Back in. Oh, it's quite fresh, but high stakes. It's new, but it's very nice. He looked great in Q1. Set a standard. Just edged out Busto. There he is. Over the top of the hill. He had a bit of controversy in this first race. Oh, my goodness. That back wheel just landed. Really did take him off. There he was. It's a bit stiff. Big double set from Martelly. Oh, it's a bit hard to take it in. It's a bit hard to take it in. Great drive from Martelly. Clean as a whistle. Oh, no wrong at this point. Oh, he missed everything. Martelly is in a bit of a pinch there. A bit of a bump from that bridge. Everything moves. That's bad. A bit of a bump when Martelly hits it. There he is. Good news. All right, just set. Going to go now. There he goes. Worthy of time there. Good drive. Four great rides, four queens. Up to 1.6. Up to 1.8. In the opposite direction. Yeah, this is a fun ride. This is where the economy... If this is a fun ride for us, it's got three drivers doing the work that's supposed to do it. It depends. If it's supposed to be a fun ride for all of us, anyway. Now, post-hoc luck. If you've got a vehicle, or pet, or trim, well, just about a lot of them you've got to get up onto a very angled, similarly sized piece of rock. Well, yeah. I think it did. Good thing so far. I'm afraid... Oh, that's terrifying. That really is terrifying. What a gap up there. He's got to work his way across to this... onto this big cube. He's stuck at all the angles. He blocks it. He turns back towards the person. He does it really well. Really well. I'm afraid he's tilting. Now, if he came into this back wheel and rolled it out. Great ride. I'm afraid he's putting the pressure on. Just one mark for the pressure plate touching down, I think. Very early in the section. He pushed for a tap, and that's not too bad. That's early for next. As you can see, the starting order from the beginning of the trial was slightly changed, because basically everyone went through that first section clean, but that meant it went down to who got through quickest. Bray was slowest, so he went first. That running order changes as the event develops to position on the scoreboard after the previous section. Now, Martelli, although he caught Bray on point, was quicker through the previous section. There's that dab from Martelli. He's equal to both Bray at this point. Great bit of skill from Martelli. He's bridging the bike up, overlapping, dropping the front wheel down. That camber, and gaps it up, but takes a little dab. That's important. He gets it out on time. That's two from Martelli. Bray now on the scoreboard. We're seeing Martelli going into section three first. Not sure what's happened there. I suppose it was the quickest through, and it's slow to go one lap last. It may well be. My apologies there. I thought Jaime Buster was about to ride, but it seems that only Beau is doing. Before him. So, slight advantage for Jaime Buster at this point. Beau stays on the front wheel. Brilliant. Kicks the front plate out of play. He'd like work for that, but it took so much commitment to do it. It's where Martelli got going for a while. Beau. Oh, no commit out again. That was brave. That really was brave. He potentially made the same mistake as Martelli. There was a block here. He just thought, nah, I'm going to send it from here. Not putting any marks down. We see our first clean on section two. Tony Bowe. So, a slight lead now for Tony Bowe. Now, I wasn't hoping to get a free clean. I have to do that to stay in touch. If you can stay in clean and quick to hold on to this position of riding enough. He does the same mistake. He's on the back wheel. Kicks the back plate out of play. Ah, it's brilliant. More or less a clean. And it was quicker, I think. Really tight. Every single mark is going to count. Every time that crash plate touches down or a foot goes out, there's going to be nothing in it. So, the pain's back. Final ID position. Last man out. On each section that's important. Especially as it's a fight between him and Bowe. I'm starting to get a contested nervousness into this. Section three. This one will be run backwards and forwards. So, it's forwards and backwards. As one section which we haven't seen in the Q1 as we see Grappa Roller and Kuten Army testing. Grappa Roller might be carrying an injury. Causing some issues. Some crashes earlier on. Here's Martelly. So, it is backwards then forwards for section three. Great start from Martelly. Look at that control. Now, will he drop down or will he send it right across to the rope block? No, he doesn't drop down. Now, essentially how they were running it out in the Q1 section three. 28 seconds to get out. Last bit. Blocked down. Very steady ride I think. He's in the mix here. He had so many rides this year in Q2 where he would win the race and be very close his second half of the year form was very much one of the very, very top runners in Q2. He had about four race winners in the end and a couple of Davies. Oh, this is tricky. Triple step. It took one mark off of Gabri Martelly. Can it do the same as Piret or can he clean it? Oh, Piret shows just how hard that is. That looks would we say unlikely from there. Can he get it up there from that incredibly very brave leap to do that? It's going to be five marks down. Big difference. So his chance is tonight. He's got the bow now. Familiar situation. After a ride before home in the state. Doesn't happen as often. It's more often the bow going last. In control. And you know when all those riders, top riders Busch, Gaff, Harry, Hemingway all literally filmed how this is done. Gamboge, this triple step. It cost Martelly at least one. His mind is not exactly in a position to grab him. It's the same riders as Martelly's but it never looked in doubt. Strong ride there. Held on. I don't know if I'm imagining it but I feel like Tebow's protecting that dog. Even though he's riding fantastic. Yeah. Maybe it's in my head. One mark. He's only bowed. Again. Pressure shift. Now it's more on Tebow's shoulders. Bow. Lead him by example. Reach the tab. Attacking Tebow at this point. Capistani, the team manager's urgent encouragement to Busto. He's been very vocal when interviewed about what riders like Busto and Martelly need to do to beat Tony Bowen. That has put him under pressure. And these are those moments. He's not been... Oh! And Busto! Oh! Powerful Capistani's take. These are the moments that make the difference. Week in, week out. It's been out of hand in those moments. He's taken that to review. Just what those riders could do in that section. That could be a pivotal moment in tonight's proceedings. Great start from Busto. Hooray! And got another go. Nice ending though. Tebow. A line in the section we picked. Good job, Tony. Wasn't through it as quick as Busto was. And now riding section 2. Great first ride in section 2. On the parade. Setting the standard. Similar result from Marseille. Montab is doing this correct. Slow. Making sections ok. Easy. And Busto trying to keep up but he did. Great. Hooray. Back in the room. Madrid. X-Trial number 2 for the 2026 season. The running order in the final will be Foray, Busto, Marcelli, Tebow. Five of Foray and Busto on section 3 has caused some damage in their scores. Tebow finds himself in that familiar last man out position that he liked so much. Here we are, section 4. Concrete blocks. Now our first look at this section in its reverse format. Not seen anyone ride it this way yet. 30 seconds gone. Riders for just a minute in the green section. Oh, Foray! Doesn't make it sit. But that is what a really awful bit of riding needed to be done there. And really that's what we want to see, isn't it? We want to see these guys challenge to the limit. We're watching the very best riders in the world here. Busto's in. Cameraman can't keep up. Big gap across. He nearly missed that. Now, how's Busto going to do it? It's really tricky because it's so narrow you can't hit it head on. You've got to come round at this end piece. Oh, Busto makes it look so easy. Just for the one mark gone. And it's as easy as that. Oh, Busto through for a gap there. How important is that 5 on the last section going to be? Oh, the dreaded thing come the end of today. Is he going to be looking back at that moment? We shall see. Long way to go yet. What are those guys doing? What are you doing next year? Lining up section number 4. It's time to get the same kind of kick that only Busto was able to get on that gap. Even if I imagine the Honda doesn't seem to handle that particular part of this course as well. Does do that bit beautifully though. Just the one mark gone for Martelli. The Spanish champion makes life worth it. That gap looks a struggle compared to how Busto and Pirelli must be interested to see if though as a result similar to Martelli or to Busto. Let's watch this in detail and see if we can see a difference in the machinery's performance here. There we go. Busto was close to looping out he made this look so easy. Honda doesn't seem to do it quite as well. No, bowed it easily. On the bike. Nice. How close in a tricky corner. Same. Martelli. Just expecting that bash plate mark. That's one mark drop from Tony Poe. That's the first mark we've taken off him. Ah no, he did have that one mark drop from section 3. So he's on 2 in total now. He's clean in his qualifying run. Next up, with 11 points gone at this point, Arnaud Ferre heading in to section 5. These riders running out of time to put a challenge to Tony Poe, who's got a 2 mark splendid lead over his teammate Gabriel Martelli. 5 ahead of Jaime Busto. Comfortably ahead by 9 marks over Arnaud Ferre. There's 2 sections left. Let's see how this plays out. Oh, wouldn't you love to know what they were saying? Great, Arnaud Ferre can just put things back together a little bit in this section. 2 5s on the trot. Doesn't feel like he deserves to be a rider who's got 4th place in the final but was 10-20 marks adrift. He's been closer than that. Clock's ready. Arnaud Ferre is in section 5. This is nasty looking tumble. Attack of 2 parts this one. Up, up. That's part 1. He's throwing up now. Arnaud Ferre. Crowd getting behind him. Oh no! And he goes down. Couldn't quite get into a position to launch. That's a tricky obstacle right there. Unfortunately, another 5 behind the door. Ah, OK. Trying to keep his man's mind on the game. He knows what Bo's doing but in doubt and thought in Gusto's mind. I don't think that's what Tony Bo was doing on purpose but it certainly would have had that effect. OK, Gusto's in the section. Doesn't look like you're able to gain any momentum from that first part. Can you do this part in one go? No. Gusto can't so he's got to try and go from here. Come on crowd. Get behind him. Gusto! That gives you an idea of how difficult this part of the track is. Gusto just didn't look like he had a hope of going that far from there. This could be a very pivotal moment in this event right now. Gabriel Marchelli about to enter this section. It's seemingly being an impossible problem. A ride of some success here would really put the pressure on Tony Bo. Marchelli is really the only person close at this point. It's only 2 marks back. Bo doesn't love this section. He's already been talking with his minder and his manager. Marchelli can keep his head in the game here. Get through this section. Make it happen somehow. The pressure's suddenly on Tony Bo and we've been talking about that all night. Can you get that man under pressure? So often we see other riders give him the win rather than him have to take it because he just rides at the absolute limit all the time. Here's Marchelli. He's lining up for it. Can he make it work? He does it for a dab. But Marchelli suddenly has an opportunity. This could be for the young Spaniard. Trying to get it back the other way now. Nearly 10 seconds left. Keeps it moving. And through. What a ride from Marchelli. The elite keeps the pressure on. That's what he needed to do. That's what was being demanded of him from the event. And he's done it. He's proved for a 2 marks score. That was 6 in total. Suddenly Bo's got a ride. I feel like there's at least a mark in this section in terms of touching down at the top of this first climb. Even if Bo does it as well as you can imagine it being done it's going to cost him at least one. Suddenly that final section is all or nothing. Bo may have a rider's vote. Pressure on. Nearly done for it in one go. He rides this straight to the top. Oh Bo is best right there. Just when you think something's impossible he makes the impossible happen. How on earth? We've just seen how difficult that bit was. Now he was amazingly able to even give this a crack in the qualifying round. Can he do it again now? Could this be one of those moments where he just sets it up a level? It is. Bo clean to the top. Still got 10 seconds left. That's the climb. It's Bo's there. It's Bo at his best. Come on. He lost most of the ground and he gets it. That's what they hate to see. And it looks close and he took it. But to be fair the pressure was on him there. He had to ride with a pressure of a good lot from Ephraim Martelli compared to everyone else but him. He was the 38 times world champion proving exactly why that is the case. Because so often it happens in these tight difficult high pressure finals Bo does something. And now it's not over. It is not over. There is only 4 marks between Tony Bo and Gabriel Martelli even after that. Cusco and Frey they're battling for who gets third place. But right now there's still a battle on for the win. Bo even though he's got those incredible moments in him can make the take. We have seen it in the past. Not even Tony Bo can carry things at this point. Here goes Arnaud Frey. He's got to hope for a really great ride here and put some pressure on Jaime Gusteau. Only 4 marks between them. But it's the long section to do in a minute this time. Lots of problems in here. Make it not easy. Oh well, hell of a try there. A real shame. In that moment there. In the final. 4th place finish today. We're watching Jaime Gusteau now. Third place is pretty much wrapped up from where he's finishing. He knows that now. Can he finish with a flourish? Oh, Joni just makes it up that double step. He does. This is amazing. Really? 35 seconds left. Great. The confidence these riders show when they drop a bike to back wheel on these sharp edges and manage to hold that back brake on their toes. Incredible. Gusteau crossed him too. And he finishes on 4th place on 6 sections. Great performance and a great show yet again from Gusteau for a performance that was short. Next up, Gabby Martelli. A stunning clean is required. If he can put some pressure on then Beau at least is forced to ride. He's forced to ride for it in the sense that he can't climb. But it's going to require a momentous effort from Gabriele Martelli. Here he goes. Section 6. Next trial, Madrid. The clock is ticking. He keeps himself in position there. That was really beautifully done. He's got to make it all the way up across this gap. He must go clean. He's won. Now he's trying to force the tie. Look at Fuji Gas now saying you cannot drop any more marks. You must stay clean. Martelli he's got to do this bit with no bash plate. Else Tony Beau really has got the win. He needs to keep that bash plate out of action. Oh, and he can't do it. He can't do it at Martelli. Wow. He comes out there with three marks lost. That gives him eight marks in total. Fabulous ride. Fabulous clean off the end of the section there. Look forward to seeing that again in the replays in a moment. Tony Beau now has the one mark gap that he needed. If he can five this section it will put him on seven in total. He's still capable of it. But this is Tony Beau. He may be 39 years old but what he is, he's desperate to clean this section for an adoring audience. That's why he's as good as he is. He's tied back into this section somehow. That grass, that's what everyone else seemingly couldn't do. This will make it a clean one. So interesting to see if he can keep it clean all the way out of this section. It'll be a real treat and a beautiful way to finish off the night for Tony Beau tonight. I wonder what the audience want to see. Here he goes. Oh, can he keep that fast way out of play? He wants to hear him. Tony Beau for the win. And he does it. Tony Beau. Winner. It was a five and six. He made it now. What a ride for Tony Beau. What a ride for Artelli. Second place tonight. Tony Cristo in third. Those three keeping it strong in the chase for the series at the moment. They've been most likely in third in the first three rounds. Had a great performance from Arno Frey. Hemingway in fifth. He's going to do his extra championship, no harm at all. I think that's it. The grass roller who I feel may have a injury tonight. Let's head down to Tony Beau with us tonight. We're heading down to Tony Beau right now who I think is with our mic. I work a lot after Andorra and today I feel better. Just a pain in some parts of the section but the team and all the people around me helped me a lot. I'm super happy with this. The race today is perfect. Just two points in the final. I'm riding amazing so I'm super happy. Congratulations. Thank you. What a surprise exactly after that. I think it was the team last one in that whole moment for Tony Beau. Team last all night. There was a couple of moments in that event where Beau seemed to have a way to ride the section but no one else did. Let me know your thoughts out there if you're watching. What you thought about that. Hit me up on Instagram if you've got thoughts about Beau's performance tonight. Martelly's ability to hang on. Look at that championship position at the moment. Beau already with 10 mark lead over team mate Martelly. Busco down in third and then Hemingway. What a position for him to be enough for two rounds. Fourth place. Quite a gap back to Arnaud Frey. Jack Beeson and then Matteo Pangrola. Look at those rounds we've got to come. Looking forward to this season unfolding so much. Tread in the tree but we'll be heading off underneath. Union Island next on the 8th of November. Then we're on to Ponte Vallejo, Boligno. We're up on to the podium. Third place down tonight. How long will it take to get them in the red? Gas, gas, gas. That's a close fight. Looking on Martelly. Round two. Tony Bovac. That win. Might say that's all we've seen but probably the last thing he says from here. Tony Bovac a nightmare. Tony out of the water there for third place. Yeah, I can't play on Martelly. Halfway to that, second place. There he is, Néstor Penalda. Tony Bovac takes the win. A new look. Just landed on 9th post. Everyone's out. First move, Martelly and go. He's not going to let this one go easily. And he's already in the hunt for his 39th World Trial Champion. We'll do a quick poll today. And then we'll see if these guys are any good at poppin' champagne. I wonder how many times Tony goes poppin' champagne. I think I prefer poppin' champagne. What a night we've had here in the Pyrd. Thanks so much for watching. There you have it. Tony wins again. Join us for Round 3 on the 8th of August. See you then.