250th Trial GP for Cabestany

Yesterday’s second and closing day of the Grand Prix of Europe in Corsica marked an amazing two hundred and fifty Grand Prix starts in the FIM Trial World Championship for Spain’s Albert Cabestany – Sherco. The soon to be thirty-four year old, whose next birthday is on 26th June, made his debut in the series way back in 1997. Although then only aged sixteen years and ninth months Albert scored points at his first attempt when he finished fourteenth in his home GP.
 
2014 is Cabestany’s eighteenth consecutive season as part of the championship, with his best campaigns being in 2002 and 2006 when he twice finished third in the general standings at the end of those particular years. In addition to these achievements, Albert has ranked fourth in the series on no less than six occasions including three times in the last three years. The Sherco rider is now third in all time list of GP starts with only Takahisa Fujinami – Repsol Honda (269) and Dougie Lampkin (259) ahead of him.
 
During his two hundred and fifty GP starts, Albert has recorded eight wins, sixty-six podium finishes and more than two hundred and twenty point scoring rides on route to amassing more than two thousand and five hundred championship points in total.