Iván Cervantes, the five-time Enduro World Champion has now won his first Trail category at the 2022 Baja España Aragón. This was equally a win for Triumph as he did it aboard the new Triumph Tiger 900 Rally Pro.
The newly formed Trail category covers over 450km of technically demanding landscape in the Aragón region.
Cervantes finished with an overall time of 6:13.32 (6 hours, 13 minutes and 32 seconds), amounting to more than one hour ahead of his nearest category rival. Not only that, he was only 33 minutes behind the overall winner and finished in 11th place in a 75 rider field. The field of competitors mainly stemmed from international rally categories on purpose-built, Dakar-specification racing motorcycles.
The Trail and Maxi-Trail categories were introduced at the 2022 Baja Aragón to test the increasingly prominent range of production adventure-class motorcycles. Cervantes’ Triumph certainly looked the part with a distinctive hand-painted, one-off ‘Baja Aragón’ racing livery.
Iván Cervantes couldn’t contain his elation “We came to the Baja Aragón with a clear goal: to win the new Trail category on the Tiger 900 Rally Pro. However, our greater ambition was to finish as high as possible in the overall rankings, where people have been amazed at the pace we have taken with the Trail. We are proud to have done a great job, and I believe we have given everyone a lot to talk about. This once again proves that Triumph is here in off-road racing – and is here to stay. We chose this race because we plan to come here with the Enduro project, and of course we plan to succeed!” he said.
“I’m very happy to return to Baja Aragón after so many years and to return home as the category champion with Triumph.”
This is further testament to the reliability of the Triumph machines following the completion of the gruelling South Australian 24hr trial by Cameron Donald on the Triumph Tiger 1200 Rally Pro. Against a field of lightweight enduro bikes, the Tiger 1200 became the world’s first large-capacity adventure bike to enter – and conquer – Australia’s oldest motorcycle race.
