MATTEO GRATTAROLA – 2020 FIM TRIAL2 WORLD CHAMPION

A  top-ten ranked TrialGP competitor from 2010 until 2017,  thirty-two-year-old Matteo Grattarola dropped down to the Trial2  category in 2018 and took the title that year on a four-stroke Honda after a hard-fought season that saw him only win on a tie-break at the final round.

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He slipped to second in 2019, however  a switch to a two-stroke Beta appeared to revitalise him this season  and he returned to the top with a string of dominant performances that  put the title out of reach of his rivals with one day of competition  still to go.

At the opening round in France  he traded wins and runner-up positions with Alexandre Ferrer (TRRS) and  then added another win and a second-placed finish at the Spanish  TrialGP. With his rivals starting to crack under the pressure,  Grattarola set himself up for his second Trial2 title with a double win  at the penultimate round in Andorra.

Heading into his home event – the Italian TrialGP – at Lazzate, located twenty  miles north of Milan in the country’s industrial heartland, Grattarola  had one hand on the trophy and a comprehensive twenty-seven-mark victory  from Aniol Gelabert (TRRS) on the opening day was good enough for him  to regain the championship.

With  the title in the bag, Grattarola could relax on day two in Italy and  even though he ended the final day of competition in third – his worst  finish of the season – he still ran out champion by the huge margin of  fifty-two points ahead of France’s Ferrer.

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FIM Trial2 World Champion: 2018, 2020