Goodbye Red Bull! Here’s to the Past 10 Years

Look at the time!!!

#ahte

…something about Danny having to wear his hoodie upside down…

@Gribs: you beat me to it!

“He’s still the only Canadian to win on home soil.” – Finn Iles won 2 weeks ago there too

^^^ I hope so!

And we’ve still got Val Di Sole this weekend. One last hurrah, and all that.

One positive about the change, is that we’ve got until June to forget that it’s happening. June!!! Also, I watched some of the World Champs on the red button (the runs that Red Bull didn’t deem worthy of screen time), and I enjoyed Andrew Neethling as part of the commentary team. Maybe there’s a few former racers who could be involved in the new setup.

It definitely won’t be the same though. As much as RB are often slated, it’s been a pretty great thing having the races streamed for free, with Rob’s commentary being such an important part of it. It’s going to be a very hard act to follow, and I hope the new corporate overloads don’t ruin it.

Edit: Was referring to Gribs, took too long to type my response!

Warner’s hoody comment

That was a lovely throw back to his more lively approach to his commentating duties!

It will bbe a very sad day when Rob W, Claudio and Bart move on. A great commentary team with enthusiasm and depth of knowledge from insider info.

End of an era.

Whilst rob has been quoted as saying he’s staying with redbull which is true he’s not solely contracted to them so watch this space is all I’m saying 🤔

Will be the end of an era. And of free to air coverage…..that’s going to be a massive loss. As will Rob, the voice of MTB.

However, is the coverage significantly different from 10 years ago? My one criticism would be they haven’t really evolved the coverage. It’s still Elite XC & DHI. No qualifying, no U23/Junior races…..

Standing still isn’t an option – which is why I guess the UCI has gone with Discovery/Eurosport; who will now do the whole lot. The sport needs to be bigger than it currently is, and bring in more sponsors/ money, etc

The Reb bull commentary has been great and realy enjoy watching it. However the commentary on GCN+ for the World championships XCC race was terrible. Nearly as bad as the BBC when they do commonwealth and Olympic MTB coverage.

Really hope that they get some good commentators for next year otherwise I’ll stop watching, can’t listen to that for long periods.

OK going to put this out there so I can figure out if I am as weird as my daughter now says I am. Everytime I watch that Danny Hart run, well when I say watch, it’s more listen, I get all emotional. Like I am in a very dusty room………………………just me? My daughter just thinks it’s funny commentary which I get but for me there is more.

It’s a real loss to see Red Bull, Bart & Rob go, the benchmark is set very high and will be very difficult to match.

Agree – reducing viewers won’t help develop / expand the sport.
See other sports that have gone the same way (1st class cricket being the best example possibly)

It’s not wendyball where the ££ people are happy to waste is unfathomable.

Wow just seen this. As a Eurosport Player subscriber for several years (for the winter sports, road cycling and other randomness) I am excited that we could well be going full-circle! Reminds me of the days of trying to catch and record Eurosport coverage of the Grundigs with Mark Beiseigel on comms… Nevegal, Kaprun, dual slalom, Steve Peat’s first WC win from Snowqualmie Pass finally beating Nico V and the constant panic of the coverage being trumped by tennis!
Speaking of which I have about 10 VHS tapes of Grundigs in a box somewhere waiting to be digitised… I must get around to that at some point.