Toni Bowe scores his fifth win in Leeds after a tough one-on-one with an unexpected local hero.

In 2026, the X-Trial World Championship returns, returning to British territory 10 years later with an event in Leeds. toni bow He added his fifth of six wins at the Indoor World Cup, 25-26, and is on track for his 20th straight victory and 39th all-time victory. 80 points will be distributed over the remaining four tournaments until the end of the campaign.

When he arrived at Leeds, he had a 23 point advantage over his teammates Marcelli and 33 points over Busto, but by his next appointment he had a 34 point advantage over Marcelli and 41 points over Busto. Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, ​​February 8th. This season, only Jaime Busto was able to debunk the Bow myth at the third event in Saint-Denis on Réunion Island on November 8th, and in Leeds’ afternoon-to-evening match at the First Direct Bank Arena, Harry Hemingway and his Beta responsive figures emerged to the detriment of their usual rivals.

Busto surprises Bow in Q1

In Q1, Busto and Marcelli started in that order, with Bow finishing the race. Busto added 8 points for his failure in S3 and passed S2, S4 and S6 cleanly. Marcelli did not perform very well in this first contact, adding 17 points due to failures in S3 and S6 and not being able to clear the area, but it was enough to secure third place against Harry Hemingway (19 points). Bowe finished the round with 12 points, but failed in S4 and, like his teammates, was unable to clear any of the six zones.

However, three of the favorites have advanced to the finals and are vying for a starting spot in the Super Pole. harry hemingway They passed Q2 and advanced to the Final 4. Busto once again looked perfect, gaining the advantage of shutting out the opening stages of the final.

toni bow He started pressuring Jaime Busto from the first zone and was forced to blunder after starting Pieras with just one leg (1 point) penalty. But in the second zone, a surprise happened to Beta drivers. harry hemingway Born in Leeds 20 years ago and finishing fourth at the 2026 World Cup, they successfully overcame the hurdles as the three Spaniards made their own huge flops.

Arriving at the halfway point after passing through the third zone, which Bust, Bouw and Hemingway had passed cleanly in that order, the team from Leeds were in the lead with five points, one less than Bouw, five fewer than Bust, and seven fewer than Marcelli, placing them second in the World Cup.

In the fourth zone, Bowe regained the lead with a four-point lead over Beta’s British rider after Busto and Hemingway made a series of misses and the Repsol Honda rider outran him cleanly. Marcelli reacted timidly and misplaced himself (2 points), allowing him to leave the bottom of the table with a one point difference over Busto, clearly going from top to bottom in Leeds.

Hemingway squeezes his bow

In the fifth zone, again, hemingwayThe team carried the players cleanly over the obstacles, during which Bowe accumulated two points and was now the only candidate for victory – Bowe with a two-point lead over Hemingway – heading into the final six area where the man from Piera had the advantage to close out the final.

In the 6th zone, hemingway He added one foot (one point) to Marcelli and Busto in the final for fourth and third place, leaving all the pressure on Bowe, whose victory should have been blamed for the fiasco. Despite having a margin of error of up to three points, in the end they took two penalties and won by one point over Hemingway at Leeds.