MADRID 31 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish trial pilot Toni Bou (Repsol Honda) admits that “the obligation to win is what is most uncomfortable” at this point in his career in a sport that has been dominating for almost two decades, so “you have to Know how to graduate “, and he doesn’t hide that he lacks in his career” lose “and then return to the winning path and that he is” afraid “to suffer a” downturn. “
“I am very happy. It will be a hard year, the young people have been learning very strong. The beginning of the championship has been difficult, we are leaders, but everything is very tight,” said Piera’s start in an interview with Europa Press before of the 2024 Champions Gala of the Royal Spanish Motorcyclist Federation (RFME) at the headquarters of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE).
After a long media attention round, Bou does not withdraw his smile and is prepared, after 18 years, for another season in which he is the top favorite to get with two other World Cups -‘indor ‘and outdoors – In Trial, discipline that dominates since 2007. The next stop of the championship in Pavilion will be in Barcelona, this Sunday. “Another important career for us, for the calendar it is important not to harm, stay healthy to get well to the races. It will be a tight championship,” he said.
In the last test, Bou was placed at the top of the classification. And it has rarely savored what the leader’s persecutor feels. “It is something that I have always said that I also lack in my career, lose and then the time to try to win, that it has to also be very complicated, but also very exciting. But it is always better to be in front of behind,” he defended laughing.
“I always have that fear of a downturn, the uncertainty whenever you can have. But, in the end, with 38 years I am in front and I am the one that most complicates the pieces of the areas. That is positive,” he said, aware that now You must take care of “as much as possible.” “Notes that you are not the same as when you were 25 years old, it is life. That is the only thing that can make you approach that level, which I think you no longer recover,” he reflected.
But he knows and keeps in mind that the time will come when he does not feel so superior. “I have always said that the moment I see that I do not have the level, I prefer to continue competing doing second or third because I have a good time, but I have the level, that I do not continue to compete trying to throw all the cards in the sleeve to lower the level Of the races and is easier.
“But I, for the moment, have a good time, I enjoy. Yes it costs me more physically, but I still have a good time and enjoying, and that is the important thing,” he added about his current state, when he also keeps the self -examination above. “The obligation to win is what is more uncomfortable, because you put it on yourself, but as you put it yourself you have to know how It is easier, “he added.
Therefore, he believes that “many” pilots would change now for him. “With 36 World Cups, maybe yes,” he joked. “But also for them it is an incredible emotion and prize to be able to win after so many consecutive years, it is a great motivation,” he halling the youngest, focusing, above all, on his favorites to take over.
“It would clearly say Jaime Busto and Gabriel Marcelli, they are the two pilots who are already there, they are already fighting to win the World Cup, they are the two superjorities, they have a very high level, and I believe that the battle will be among them,” he predicted , advancing that a champion pilot must ‘cook’ with three ingredients: “That what does, a lot of talent and then, a lot of work.”
Finally, Bou did not want to get wet on his future when he left Trial’s motorcycle, although it is clear that it will be “linked to Honda”, because it is his “house” and his “family.” “We will see how we do it, but I think there is interest in the two parties, so if Honda gives me the opportunity to try something, why not. In the end, I am restless, I love doing everything, but also to see How I finish my career, which maybe I am pieces … “, he concluded.