2025 Hertz FIM Trial World Championship concludes with TrialGP of Great Britain

The seventh and deciding round of the 2025 Hertz FIM Trial World Championship – the TrialGP of Great Britain – takes place this coming weekend (5-7 September) at Geddington and with all five titles still to be decided, dreams will both come true and be broken over two days of points-scoring action in the East Midlands region of England.

The destination of the premier TrialGP title is, realistically, a done deal with reigning champion Toni Bou (Montesa) holding a commanding seventy-nine-point advantage at the top of the table. With a maximum of forty-one points available each day, the Spanish superstar is a clear favourite to wrap up an incredible nineteenth consecutive title on the opening day of competition.
 
The thirty-eight-year-old has only tasted defeat twice this season, on day two of the opening round in Spain in early April at the hands of Jaime Busto (GASGAS) and on day two of the most recent round in the USA in mid-July, this time after being beaten by his team-mate Gabriel Marcelli.
 
It should come as no surprise that the two Spaniards are lying second and third in the championship table with twenty-seven-year-old Busto holding a thirty-two-point advantage over Marcelli and with Italian veteran Matteo Grattarola (Beta) a further sixty-six points adrift of Marcelli in fourth, it is safe to say that the 2025 medallists are already decided.
 
However, all three will be determined to sign off on top so the competition at the front of the field will be as fierce as ever with Bou aiming to maintain his dominance and both Busto and Marcelli keen to end the championship on a high.
 
Grattarola also appears to be safe in fourth, but there is a battle raging over fifth position between Spain’s Aniol Gelabert (TRRS) and home hero Jack Peace (Sherco) with just one point separating the pair. Although five months younger than Peace, Gelabert is more experienced at the highest level and the twenty-five-year-old is coming to the end of his fourth season in TrialGP while the British rider made his debut in the class at the start of the year.

It is closer in TrialGP Women, but twenty-five-year-old Berta Abellan (Scorpa) from Spain still holds a comfortable thirty-two-point lead ahead of her nearest rival, Italy’s Andrea Sofia Rabino (Beta).
 
Competing over an abbreviated five-round series, the pair were close at the start of the season through the opening rounds in Spain and Portugal before the more experienced Abellan pulled clear in Japan. A five-time runner-up and two-time bronze medallist, her double win in the USA last time out sees Abellan start in Great Britain with the title within her grasp.
 
While the leading pair are out of reach of the chasing pack, the battle for bronze is far too close to call with just six points separating third through to sixth.

Czech rider Denisa Pechackova (TRRS) – who three years ago won the Trial2 Women title – is currently holding third, but she faces a strong challenge from British rider Kaytlyn Adshead (Sherco) who is just three points behind. Adshead, in turn, is just two points clear of Italy’s Alessia Bacchetta (GASGAS) who is only one ahead of Britain’s Alice Minta (Beta), setting up a dramatic conclusion to the series.

Harry Hemingway (Beta) will start his home round with a healthy twenty-eight-point lead and one hand on the Trial2 title, but his advantage does not accurately reflect how close and competitive it has been in the class that has witnessed five different day winners this season.
 
The nineteen-year-old British rider’s main rival this year has been twenty-seven-year-old Miquel Gelabert (Honda) who after nine years in the TrialGP class dropped down to campaign the all-new RTL Electric model. A stuttering start to the campaign saw the Spaniard on the back foot, but he fought his way into contention before a rule infringement on the opening day in the USA resulted in his disqualification and although he remains a strong second, he will almost certainly have to settle for silver.
 
Champion in 2023, Britain’s Billy Green (Scorpa) holds third with a comfortable sixteen-point cushion over Spain’s Arnau Farré (Sherco) before a big gap to French rider Benoit Bincaz (Electric Motion), who has also dropped down from TrialGP this year to campaign an electric machine.

Back in action for the first time since Portugal, the Trial2 Women competition sees Italy’s Sara Trentini (TRRS) start with a twelve-point lead ahead of rising French star Margaux Pena (Electric Motion) before an eight-point gap to Spain’s Daniela Hernando (Beta).
 
With four different day winners from the four days of competition, the results on both days are impossible to predict, although Trentini’s consistency has undoubtedly given her the edge so far this season.

Following four rounds and eight days of competition, Trial3 leader Ryon Land (Sherco) from the USA has opened up a thirty-four-point lead ahead of Norway’s Jonas Jorgensen (Beta) with British rider Harison Skelton (Scorpa), who is a further seven points adrift in third, just four in front of Japan’s Jin Kuroyama (Sherco).
 
All four have won at least once this season, but Land has been by far the most consistent and only a disaster can stop him claiming the title.

The points-scoring action from Geddington is scheduled to get under way at 09:00 (local time) on Saturday (6 September) and Sunday (7 September).