Andorra – revisited

Tomorrow will see Andorra host the first double header of the season as the 2013 Women’s Trial World Championship gets underway alongside the third round of the 2013 Trial World Championship, which will be a repeat of what happened for the first time ever twelve months ago. A total of seventy-six riders, fifty male and twenty-six female have entered for the Grand Prix that will take place in the town of Sant Julia De Loria close to the Spanish border.

Last year at the same mountainous venue Albert Cabestany – Sherco scored a second day victory to bring to a halt to Toni Bou’s – Repsol Montesa straight eight winning run. Ironically it was the first win for the soon to be thirty-three year old since he last won in Andorra way back in 2006.

So whilst it was Bou and Cabestany who shared the spoils in the men’s division, it was Laia Sanz who dominated the two days of Women’s competition. Sadly Sanz will miss this weekend’s event as she instead competes in the FIM Women’s Enduro World Cup, this will be the first time she has missed a Trial GP since the FIM Women’s Trial World Championship was conceived back in 2000.

Andorra is always a popular stop on both the men’s and women’s tour and this coming weekend promises to be no different with two laps of eighteen sections plotted on the surrounding steep hillsides.