On The Pegs July 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 7 | Page 126

On The Pegs
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FAJARDO EMERGES AS
NEW TITLE CHALLENGER
Currently second in the 2018 TrialGP series
Spain’s Jeroni Fajardo - Gas Gas has emerged
as a real title challenger, so what do we know
of the now thirty-three year old?
Jeroni can trace his love of Trial precisely
back to February 1989 when, aged just three
years old, his father took him to watch a
round of the Spanish Trial Championship near
his home in Pals in the North East of the coun-
try where he saw the legendary Jordi Tarres in
action.
In common with so many of his compatri-
ots, his first taste of competition was riding
bike-trial where he won two World titles. His
undisputed talent was clear for all to see and
inevitably he exchanged pedals for petrol, but
it was not until 2003 before he graduated to
the highest echelons of the TrialGP class.
Jeroni’s always been a fierce competitor and
a highly-skilled rider, but up until this season
his sole TrialGP victory had come in Andorra
all the way back in 2009.
That all changed on the opening day of this
year’s TrialGP Japan - round two of the 2018