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FITWC Sao Paulo - gasgas press release

Wednesday the 8th of March 2006 by jitsie

Salt, Girona, 7 March 2006.- After winning the Indoor Trial World Championship for the fourth consecutive time with total authority in Sao Paulo last weekend, the GAS GAS rider Adam Raga is collaborating with GAS GAS Brasil in several promotional events, such as the demonstration that the Catalan rider performed yesterday in Itapecerica da Serra, Sao Paulo before a limited number of riders and guests.

Adam Raga has not let himself be carried away by his enormous success and is already preparing the coming round, to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday, 11 March. After that, he will be coming to Spain to celebrate his world title with all his fans in the last round of the season in the Community of Madrid sports arena one week later. Before that, Raga will receive homage from his town Ulldecona, on Monday March 13 in the afternoon, after landing at the El Prat airport in Barcelona at 10:40. Again, the GAS GAS rider has been the first to bring home a world title for Spanish motorcycling.

Adam Raga and GAS GAS, an extraordinarily fruitful association

Adam Raga, 23, Ulldecona has added his fourth back-to-back Indoor Trial World Championship title in close association with the leading trial and off-road manufacturer GAS GAS. This new crown comes to complete the already large sports curriculum of the manufacturer and his own as a rider, a history that has already reached a peak after last year’s performance, when they won all the championships they entered, including the outdoor and indoor World Championships. The results are explicit enough and prove that, today, Adam Raga and GAS GAS are the undisputed number ones of world trial at all levels.

We mustn’t forget that all of Adam Raga’s impressive successes have been achieved on GAS GAS motorbikes and that he has won 30 out of the 55 indoor trials he has entered so far, with 13 second places and 6 thirds – 49 podium finishes out of 55 Indoor Trial World Championship events! This is the rider and the manufacturer’s outstanding international tally:

Indoor Trial World Champion (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
Outdoor World Trial Champion (2005)
Outdoor Trial des Nations Champion (2001, 2004, 2005)
Indoor Trial des Nations Champion (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
Junior World Champion (2000)
Overall European Champion (2000)
Outdoor Spanish Trial Champion (2004, 2005)
Indoor Spanish Trial Champion (2004, 2005)
Gold Medal in the World Games (2005)

GAS GAS, the most prolific of the Spanish manufacturers

Although evidence proves that Adam Raga is a real star, it is fair to remark that the turning point in his career came in 1999, when he became a works GAS GAS rider. Moving from his home town of Ulldecona to Rellinars – for strictly sportive reasons – was a great change, which meant to come under the close observation of the highest figure of world trial to that moment, Jordi Tarrés, for over six years, in order to become a top-level trial rider through intensive work and training. And, obviously, that was when he started to ride the best trial bike of the moment: GAS GAS.

It is not a secret that the curriculum of GAS GAS as a trial bike manufacturer during the last two decades is a clear description of their true value in development and technological design, although we must consider that many of the championships the manufacturer entered did not hold a manufacturers’ class, so many times the titles, as is the case of the Indoor Championships, must be taken from the ones achieved by the rider himself. In any case, GAS GAS counts on several world, continental and national crowns in his account as a manufacturer, including four World Championships (1993, 1994, 1995 and 2005), four European Championships (1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999) and eleven Spanish Championships (1987, 1989, 1990, 1992 to 1996, 2002, 2004 and 2005).

Thanks to the effective riders who have competed for GAS GAS through the year, but also to the technological development of the different models, GAS GAS has 42 wins in the outdoor World Trial Championship, 13 by Adam Raga. In the Indoor World Championship, GAS GAS adds 52 wins, 30 by the rider from Ulldecona.

On the other hand, we cannot forget that GAS GAS is also achieving continuous success in enduro, with manufacturer riders winning titles somewhere around the planet every year. Without taking into account the Junior and national wins, GAS GAS has won the Manufacturers’ World Championship in 1994 and 2003 (125) and the overall standings and the 250 class in 1999.

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