Season finals are heart-pounding. Emotions accumulate, the winners are known, the tension of the last bars is experienced, the anecdotes that forge the curriculum of a rider are shared and… Negotiations are closed for the following year.
Dani Oliveras is an example of struggle, self-improvement and perseverance. After achieving a runner-up position in the Junior Trial in 2006 in a beautiful head-to-head with Dani Gibert and giving everything to stay in the elite of this sport, carving out a difficult path for himself, with very limited means, he ended up leaving the top competition at the end of 2010. However, his great knowledge of the sector, especially at the mechanical level, has been well valued in Ossa, where he has worked hand in hand with Jeroni Fajardo in a not easy year, where the evolution of the TR 280i and optimizing its reliability have been the workhorses.
The good news is that Dani Oliveras will compete again in 2012 and Ossa has offered him to do so in the Outdoor World Championship, in addition to the Italian National Championship, which was already planned. It is excellent news to know that we will once again see Dani Oliveras battling with the best riders in the world with an FIM bib.
All this has been motivated by the withdrawal from the team of Jeroni Fajardo, who since January 1 has been an official Beta rider and has already made his debut with the brand with a podium in the last Sheffield Indoor Championship.
Trialworld asked Oliveras about his impressions on the matter: “The year I’ve spent with Jeroni Fajardo as a mechanic and helping to evolve the bike has been very nice, but different from what I was used to doing when I was racing. It has taken a lot for everything to work properly, but I am sure that for next year this evolution will be noticeable in every way and we will achieve great results. Being able to collaborate with a new brand like Ossa is highly motivating for me.”
Text: David Quer
