Jorge Casales is a trial rider who is set to be one of the big favourites in the fight for the title in the coming years. His great talent and good work are allowing him to achieve great results in the highest category of the Trial World Championship.
After a lifetime linked to
Gas Gas
, Jorge became part of the official structure of
Beta Factory
, where he played until 2017. Jorge Casales is currently Vertigo’s number one driver
at the controls of a 2018 Vertigo Vertical
. The next few years will be fundamental to see if Jorge Casales manages to consolidate you among the aspirants of the new generation of riders to be World Champion.
BIOGRAPHY OF JORGE CASALES
Jorge Casales was born in 1995 in Vigo (Galicia). From a very young age, motorcycles were the object around which his life revolved. His father Angel, one of the figures of the Trial in Galicia, gave him his first motorcycle when he was only two and a half years old, it was a Yamaha pw 50 to which they had to adapt some training wheels so that Jorge could reach the ground.
Jorge combined his two great passions, motorbike and bicycle. It was with the bike that the father began to observe a special talent in Jorge and decided to stop competing to help him in training and races.
He made his debut at the age of 10 in the Asturias Youth Championship and two years later he was proclaimed Cadet Champion in Galicia. In 2008, he managed to win the Spanish Youth Championship and a year later he made the leap to the cadet category getting his second national title.
In 2010 he achieved what for him is the most important victory of his career. It was in Italy in 2010 and he managed to become champion in the first race of the European Championship. It was his first international victory, with only help from his father.
In 2012, he made his debut in the absolute category of the Spanish Trial Championship, finishing in 6th position.
In 2013 he decided to dedicate himself professionally to trial, moving to Barcelona and signing for the Gas Gas factory team for a period of 5 years. It was this same year when he lifted the Junior World Championship, entering history as the first rider to achieve it at just 18 years old.
In 2014 he achieved a seventh place in the Outdoor Trial World Championship and a fifth place in the National Championship.
In 2015 Jorge decided to amicably terminate the contract he had with Gas Gas due to the financial problems that the brand was going through and signed with the Italian brand Beta for two seasons to race the World Championship, the Spanish Championship and the British Championship.
He made his debut at the World Championships in Japan with a creditable seventh place. During this race, he suffered a fall in zone 9 that would make him go under the knife and go through a tough three-month recovery that would force him to miss three rounds of the World Championship and one round of the Spanish Championship. Once recovered from the injury, Casales reappeared strongly climbing the podium of the absolute category of the Rhode Island World Championships.
PILOT PROFILE
Full name: Jorge Casales
Date of birth: 20 July 1995
Born: Vigo (Galicia)
Hobbies: Martial Arts
Motorcycles in general
First Trial: Asturias Youth Championship (2005)
Best memory: Going on excursions in Galicia with his father and friends.
First important victory: 1st round of the 2010 Spanish Championship in Italy
JORGE CASALES’ HONOURS
Junior Outdoor World Champion 2013
Spanish Trial Champion: junior (2008), junior (2009 and 2010), TR2 (2011)
European Youth Champion 2010
LIST OF WINNERS FOR YEARS
2007
Galician Cadet Champion
2008
Spanish Youth Champion 125
Galician Junior Champion
2009
Spanish Junior Champion (125cc)
Galician Junior Champion
2010
European Youth Champion (125cc)
Spanish Junior Champion
2011
Spanish TR2 Champion
2012
Spanish TR1 Championship
2013
5th Spanish TR1 Championship
Junior World Champion
2014
7th Position as Rookie in the World Championship
5th Spanish TR1 Championship
2015
9th World Championship
6th Spanish TR1 Championship
