Making the impossible easy, that is the merit of Toni Bou and his incredible sports career. This weekend he achieved his 18th X-Trial title (Indoor Trial World Cup) which adds to the 18 GP Trial title he already held (Outdoor Trial World Cup). To all this we must also add the 19 Nations Trials with the Spanish team and the result is the most successful driver in history, regardless of the discipline.
Bou’s career has been so overwhelming that in 111 races he has achieved 84 victories and 99 podiums. That is to say, of all those that he has participated in, he has not stepped on wood in only 12, and that leaves a percentage as incredible as the fact that this year he has achieved the X-Trial title with only 5 of the 7 tests contested.
And Toni has swept the X-Trial, winning the inaugural event in Barcelona, to add those in Chalon-Sur-Saôme (France), Nice (France), Geneva (Switzerland) and, this weekend, Andorra. No one has been able to take away a single of the victories at stake and that is why in the absence of the events in Tallinn (Estonia) and the closing of the championship in Pamplona, he is already champion again.
Toni Bou won in Andorra, but Marcelli and Busto made it difficult for him
But this overwhelming dominance of Bou does not mean that his rivals do not have an unimaginable level, far from it. In fact, in Andorra he lost the lead to Gabriel Marcelli, but he was able to recover and surpass his teammate again in addition to standing up to Jaime Busto who took the lead in the second round.
It seems that no one can beat Bou, who has been undefeated since 2007 despite having had some difficult seasons with injuries. Even so, and despite the quality of the rivals, who have had to deal with the burden of matching the time with the best driver in history, Bou’s career seems to have no end, nor does his hunger.
For now we don’t know where Bou’s limit is, but achieving 40 individual titles no longer sounds so far away. If he continues at this rate and for now there are no indications that he cannot achieve it, it would mean having him active for two more seasons, that is, until he is precisely around 40 years old. Will that be your goal? Time will tell.
