It was a day of presentations for the Gas Gas riders in the first leg of the 2016 World Championships. Arnau Farré and Marc Riba, riders with the Gas Gas Factory Trial Team, and the Italians Matteo Grattarola and Gianluca Tournour, the German Franzi Kadlec and the British riders Michael Brown, Jack Price, Jack and Dan Peace will all be proudly wearing the Gas Gas red colour in the Catalan GP
The Trial World Championships gets off to a great start this weekend at Cal Rosal, in Olvan (Barcelona), the best possible setting for the presentation of the riders who are going to be defending the Gas Gas colours this season on an international level.
This hamlet near Barcelona is hosting the much awaited opening date of the season on Saturday and Sunday, 9th and 10thApril. And it gets under way with the grand prize on home turf for Arnau Farré and Marc Riba. Both are riders from the Gas Gas Factory Trial Team, leading lights for the future of the Spanish brand and who form a part of the list of favourites for the new Trial2, class in which will also feature the Norwegian Hakön Pedersen, supported rider by Gas Gas.
This season Gas Gas has a healthy representation from all over the world. The Italians Matteo Grattarola and Gianluca Tournour, the British rider Michael Brown and the German Franz Kadlec who are competing in the maximum category in 2016. A class which this year, in 2016, has a change of name and is to be called TrialGP.
Also present at Cal Rosal are the talented young Brits, Jack Price and Jack Peace, competing in Trial2, with the Czech Martin Matejicek, supported by the brand. Dan Peace, compiting in the Trial125 class, complete the representative list of Gas Gas riders in the major world categories, which this year consists of eight legs around the globe.