The 19-times World Champion records his sixth win of 2025 and the remaining medal places are settled in the final sections
Toni Bou (Repsol Honda Trial Team) has concluded season 28 of the FIM X-Trial World Championship with a clear and dominant victory in Tallinn, making Estonia the thirteenth different country in which he has been an X-Trial winner.
Bou dominated the night by topping Q1, Superpole and leading the Grand Final from Section Two onwards. Failures for Gabriel Marcelli (Repsol Honda Trial Team) in each of the opening three Sections ruled him out of the running for victory, while Jaime Busto’s (GasGas) fiascos in Sections Three and Five put Bou within touching distance of his sixth win of the campaign. And unlike in Cahors, where Bou made two errors and squandered his advantage, here he made no mistake and won by a seven-mark margin.
But the action went to the last Section in the battle for second, with three riders separated by only one mark. Jack Peace (Sherco) in his first Grand Final after topping the LCQ came within a hair’s breadth of springing a major shock as he defended a four-mark lead following a Section One error from Gabriel Marcelli, and Price pulled back two marks on Jaime Busto with a brilliant performance in Section Five. But his failure in Section Six, after a two-mark score for Marcelli and a single dab for Busto, settled the podium places against him at the last.
Benoit Bincaz did enough in his first X-Trial appearance with Electric Motion to take fifth on the night and fourth in the Championship by a single point. He, Canales (Montesa), and Haga (GasGas) were all tied in Q1 with Peace before the latter made the difference in Q2. Billy Green (Scorpa) completed the finishers.
The night also saw the FIM medals handed out to the top three overall, those rankings already settled after Cahors: the third consecutive Bou, Busto, Marcelli World Championship podium. With each rider’s worst score of the season deducted to create the final classification, Bou finishes on 135 points with Busto on 112 and Marcelli 81.
Toni Bou (1st): “Although I had already won the title, this victory was special because I won in each phase of the night and the course was very demanding. This is certainly the best possible way to close the World Championship season.” Jaime
Busto (2nd): “I am happy with how things went because I felt good right from the start. I had two failures in the Final but I am happy to have finished the season like that this and with the silver medal.”
Gabriel Marcelli (3º): “I really didn’t start well tonight, I didn’t feel at ease with the bike in Q1 and I started the final with a mistake. From there I really concentrated and I think I rode well, even though it isn’t really a satisfactory result. I can be pleased with third overall but I expected more from this season.”
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