Montecrestese – Italian Trial GP

In very much the same way as MotoGP’s visit to Mugello last weekend was one of the big weekend’s in the premier tarmac series, the Italian Trial GP is always a highly important stop on the SPEA FIM Trial World Championship tour. Tomorrow will see the mountain shrouded town of Montecrestese host the fifth round of the 2011 campaign, a venue that has never previously featured on the World calendar. Sitting just over one hundred kilometres north west of the city of Milan, Montecrestese boasts a modest population of only one thousand two hundred people. The imposing and high rocky peaks that surround the paddock pose as a barrier to the low-slung cloud that has brought heavy rain to the region over recent days, and that continues to be a part of the forecast for tomorrow’s competition. The wet conditions will certainly add extra severity to a course that stretches itself twelve kilometres around the lower parts of the local area for the sixty-two riders who are listed to start this particular GP. The home federation has no less than five riders entered in the World Pro class and is responsible for nearly twenty-five per cent of the entire entry on this occasion.