FIM Trial World Championship passes halfway mark with TrialGP of Great Britain

The 2026 Hertz FIM Trial World Championship will pass the halfway mark this coming weekend (24-26 July) when round four – the TrialGP of Great Britain – is staged at the exciting Trac Mon Circuit Anglesey, an impressive purpose-built motorsport facility making its debut on the series’ calendar.

For the second and final time this season, all five classes will come together with the elite riders of TrialGP and TrialGP Women joined by Trial2, Trial2 Women and Trial3 Junior competitors in Wales for the event, ensuring an action-packed schedule.
 
Across the three rounds and six full days of action staged so far this season, defending TrialGP champion Toni Bou (Montesa) has remained unbeaten as he chases an incredible twentieth consecutive title and the Spaniard now leads his compatriot and team-mate Gabriel Marcelli by a commanding sixty-six points.
 
Lying just nine points behind Marcelli, Italy’s Matteo Grattarola (Beta) has enjoyed a solid start to the season with a string of good results including two podium finishes that have put him on course for a TrialGP career-best finish of third, although Jaime Busto (Beta) will be determined to climb the leaderboard in the second half of the season.
 
Currently sitting fourth, a single point behind Grattarola, the twenty-eight-year-old Spaniard switched teams at the start of the season and although he has been incredibly consistent on his new machine with five podium finishes from a possible six, a poor second day in Andorra when he finished sixth has proved to be costly.
 
Behind Busto the opposition is building with Spain’s Miquel Gelabert (Honda) continuing to post impressive results on the only electric machine in the class, but it is the riders currently sixth and seventh – Britain’s Jack Peace (Sherco) and Harry Hemingway (Beta) – who will be looking to make full use of the strong home support for extra inspiration.

After winning both days at the opening round in Japan before stuttering in Andorra, TrialGP Women defending champion Berta Abellan (Scorpa) from Spain regrouped last time out in Italy where a double victory saw her extend her championship advantage over main rival Andrea Sofia Rabino (Beta) from Italy.
 
Rabino’s double win at round two in Andorra allowed her to close on the series lead before Abellan struck back at Camerino towards the end of last month to extend her advantage to twenty-three points, although fans can expect this battle to continue all the way to the final round in Spain in September.
 
Already fifty-five points adrift of Rabino, the Czech Republic’s Denisa Pechackova will not have given up on a higher step on the podium, but if she wants to retain her bronze medal from 2025 she faces a fierce fight with Italian Alessia Bacchetta who is only three points behind.
 
A disappointing seventh on the opening day of her home round, Bacchetta bounced back with a third on day two, but after scoring a pair of second places in Japan she knows the level she can achieve and will be keen to rediscover that sort of form.
 
Another class with a strong home contingent, the British effort in TrialGP Women is currently led by fifth-placed Alice Minta (Beta) and Kaytlyn Adshead in seventh, with French prospect Alycia Soyer sandwiched between the pair.

Trial2 is always a hard-fought class and this season is no different with four different winners from the six days of points-scoring action held so far.
 
Setting the pace at the front as he has from the opening day in Japan when he claimed his so far only win of the season, consistency has been key for Spain’s Alex Canales (Montesa) who leads by fourteen from his fellow countryman Arnau Farré (Sherco) with Britain’s George Hemingway (Beta) only a further five points adrift.
 
Winner on day two in Italy, Britain’s Harry Turner (Sherco) has climbed to fourth in the standings and will be aiming to carry this momentum into his home round while his compatriot and former champion Billy Green (Scorpa) will also be targeting podium finishes as he attempts to overtake Italy’s Francesco Titli (Montesa) and keep Frenchman Benoit Bincaz (Electric Motion) behind him.
 
After missing the opening round, twenty-nine-year-old Bincaz has taken two overalls and twice finished second and must be considered a contender for victory at Trac Mon Circuit Anglesey and do not discount Britain’s Jack Dance who has two podium finishes to his name this season.

The competition for Trial2 Women got under way in Italy where Spain’s Queralt Fontdevila (Beta) claimed the overall on both days, despite not winning a race. Instead, the race victories went to Britain’s Matilda Arbon (Sherco) – who claimed one on each day – along with Spain’s Abril Montserrat Junque (Beta) and Poland’s Justyna Lonycz.
 
This gives Fontdevila – who was a consistent second in all four races – a five-point lead over Arbon with Montserrat Junque just a further three behind before a six-point gap to fourth where Lonycz is tied with Spain’s Daniela Hernando (Beta). However, Fontdevila is injured and will not compete this weekend which leaves the door open for another rider to take control.

Following their two opening events in Andorra and Italy, riders in the Trial3 Junior class also reach the halfway point in their abbreviated five-round series with Italy’s Fabio Mazzola setting the pace with three days wins from a possible four giving him a seventeen-point lead over last season’s silver medallist Harison Skelton (Scorpa) from Great Britain.
 
Skelton claimed victory on day two in Andorra to briefly take the series lead, but a pair of third-placed finishes in Italy have handed Mazzola valuable breathing room and allowed Spain’s Oriol Garcia Campano (Sherco) and Marco Laure (Beta) from Germany to close.
 
Running alongside the points-scoring action, the three-day Moto Fest – billed as the ‘ultimate motorcycle festival’ – offers visitors a packed programme with the entertainment, that includes Enduro and Trial riding zones as well as a hardstanding Expo Village, starting at noon on Friday and running through until late on Sunday afternoon.
 
The action from Trac Mon Circuit Anglesey begins on Friday (24 July) with the Super Test for all classes scheduled for 17:00 (local time) before the opening race of the weekend gets under way the following day at 09:00 (local time).