Marketing fail by shimano then, isn’t the point of that video to sell you the new saint because clearly it’ll make us all that fast
Who was it that said (words to this effect, racing driver I think?) that everyone can go fast arround a corner, 100% on the limit, it’s the ability to do it perfectly at 99% of the limit, on every corner, on every lap that wins races.
There’s plenty of people who could star in that video, and do it just as ‘fast’, what marks out the racers is their ability to probably do that track repeatedly at the same pace, whereas others would take an entire day to get enough shots of enough corners to make it look like they rode the track that quickly. Bit like the freeride/dirt jump sections in videos, it looks effortless and easy, because if they showed the unedited footage it’d be 2 days of crashes and dodgy landings.
You ever even been to an NPS race?
There is a HUGE difference in speed between the top Elite riders and everyone else even down some of the straight rocky sections.
