On The Pegs December 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 12 | Page 161

On The Pegs
VOL. 4 ISSUE 12 - DECEMBER 2019
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TONI BOU
tions. Now it’s time to think about next week, as in this championship it is very
easy to not get through to the semi-finals or the other round for that matter, as
everything is really tight. It is very important to come away from this first trial with
these twenty points.”
Behind the Bou/Raga battle came a fight between Vertigo riders Jaime Busto,
Miquel Gelabert, and GasGas factory rider Jorge Casales.
In the second round Casales competed in the second heat, going up against
countrymen Jaime Busto and Toni Bou. Scoring two fives in the opening two sec-
tions, the GasGas rider then dropped two marks in section three before impres-
sively cleaning the final two sections for a total score of 12 marks, the same as
Busto.
Frustratingly for Casales, the points tie was decided in favor of Busto by virtue of
him having had a faster combined time through the five sections. Bringing Casales’
night to a somewhat unsatisfying close, in finishing fifth overall, while Busto man-
aged third place ahead of Gelabert in fourth. n