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Team Spain Wins Trial of Nations C lear favorites at the start of the day, Spain's dominant men's team followed the form- book to take top honors at the 2026 FIM Trial des Nations (TdN) for the 22nd consecutive time while Great Britain regained the Women's title, Norway topped the International Trophy, and Germa- ny ran out winners of the Chal- lenge des Nations competition. Staged at Arteixo in Spain, home advantage was of little consequence to the all-powerful Spanish trio of Toni Bou (Mon- tesa), Gabriel Marcelli (Mon- tesa) and Jaime Busto (Beta) who steered their nation to its 32nd TdN win, but the battle for second was intense with Great Britain's Harry and George Hemingway (Beta) and Harry Turner (Sherco) resisting strong challenges from Italy and France to claim silver for the second year in a row. Last visited in 2023, when it hosted the opening round of the Hertz FIM Trial World Champion- ship, the mostly natural sections were plotted in a wide, wooded valley with imposing granite rocks that tested teams from the world's leading Trial nations. With a team's best two scores counting on each of the 15 sec- tions, Spain and the French trio of Benoit Bincaz (Electric Mo- tion), Alex Ferrer (Montesa) and Pablo Echene (Sherco) shared the lead after two sections with clean sheets, but that all changed at the third where the home side added five to its score, a total matched by Great Britain who moved into second on six. A strong Italian side compris- ing Matteo Grattarola (Beta), Francesco Titli (Montesa) and Gianluca Tournour added seven here to reach eight and tie with France. The next two sections were completed by all teams without any further marks, but as the hazards became increasingly tough and technical, Spain began to quickly open up a sizeable ad- vantage, especially on the chal- lenging 10th, where the home nation went clean, France picked up three, Great Britain needed six and Italy added 10. With the harder sections to- ward the end of the lap and rain starting to fall, Spain reached the halfway point on a total of eight, 19 clear of Great Britain, with France a further 12 adrift and Italy WIND IN THE P66 (L-R) Jaime Busto, Toni Bou and Gabriel Marcelli celebrate winning the FIM Trial of Nations for Team Spain.