Just seen the timed training results, not sure how many took that one seriously
12 seconds between 1st and 10th...yeah I think there might have been some cruising going on.
Did Gwin walk it?
Rain predicted at 2pm? - I expect he was angling for an early start.
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/qualifying-results-val-di-sole-dh-world-cup-2018.html
Massive gaps in the qualifying there and some surprise names up there too, was there some bad weather?
Gwin out, injured his thumb again.
No Pompon either - she doesn't look like starting tomorrow.
Could be a battle between Rach and Tahnee depending on the weather!
Will have to check vital later but Rachel was 24s down in qualifying so not sure how on the pace she is.
Aye, track appears to be eating people. Could be a race of attrition.
For in depth analysis........ http://worldcup.eliotjackson.com/results/2018/Val-di-Sole
oh that has my inner geek happy!!
I think some were playing it safe and just rolling down so that they can at least race tomorrow.
Also looks like bother Rach and Tahnee had small offs on their runs.
They were both around 5 seconds quicker than Monika over 1st & 2nd splits.
looked wet on the rainfall radar
Brutal out there
Yep, seems Myriam Nichol was airlifted off, ‘just’ a badly bruised back after worries she’d broken it. With Vallnord next weekend she’ll probably miss that too.
Gwin crashed and landed on his just fixed thumb, he’s going to try to ride tomorrow, but doesn’t seem to be expecting to do much.
I will admit, whilst that’s bad for them, it massively improves my chances of a good weekend for the PB fantasy league 😉
What's happened to Miranda Miller this year? She seems to have dropped right off. Good to see Phil Atwill up there again though.
Curse of the rainbow stripes?
TBH I’d never heard of her until she won worlds last year, and whilst ‘lucky’ is very unfair in a sport where ‘to finish first, first you must finish’ is more important that most others, she won because most of her competitors crashed and she didn’t.
I may be wrong, but she considered ‘podium material’ until then was she?
She was at the edge of the top 5 really but not consistently up there, Fitness played a huge part at Cairns and it's been less technical than any of these tracks really
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/2018-vald-di-sole-world-cup-qualifying-photo-epic.html
Love Dave's pics
when's the Redbull feed on?
Girls on now
Yeah track looks good and not the usual dust bowl, Rachel smashing it once she got her clean run and see how the top 3 women get on, Don't think Rachel is nailed on for this one just yet
That was great.
That was good racing, great to watch.
Awesome and great to see some new faces mixing it up there
Dammit, missed it.
So who is going to take this one? Lots of mixing it up there, quali in the wet has given us a funny starting order but some solid runs so far
Not sure I'd bet against Pierron. It's good that there are so many of them who could feasibly take a win at the moment.
AHHHH Super Bruni man that was a blinder
What a run that was, nothing left up there by Greenland!!
That was a fun run to watch!
Greenland was class
That was exciting too. This is a quality race weekend.
Shame for Greenland, thought he had it there.
I think we have out overall winner there!! Hard luck for Shaw & Greenland there, they are just waiting to win one there!!
Pireeon has found his mojo, future world champ and overall title holder there.
good to see that Reece Wilson's 4th at Ft William wasn't a fluke, gutted for Greenland, but got to say Pieirron is on Fire at the minute, but overall is still wide open Greenland only a win behind
Watched this last night, best race of the season so far. Bruni was putting down a stormer until his front wheel washed out. Greenland looked so balls out on his run it looks amazing, on the edge all the way down. Hart on the other hand looked a lot more composed and I thought he was going to do it but he launched the drop and maybe overcooked it into the last couple of turns to take third just behind Laurie. Then Pierron nailed it all the way down with creative line choices and amazing composure for the last man down to take the win in a great run. Looks like the steeper and more technical it gets the better us Brits do though.
Can't wait for Andorra.
Greenland looked great this weekend. Unless I've failed with the google, current standings have him in 2nd overall?
Memory like a sieve here but I don't recall seeing him being on the live feed from the last 3 rounds - is this the protected rider rules screwing him out of TV time?
https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/news/FINAL-RESULTS-Val-di-Sole-World-Cup-Downhill,1173
Consistency rather than wins rewarded obviously, as Brosnan is 3rd only a few points behind him.
I know it's hard when you're out on track with the adrenaline pumping but I think Bruni needs to back off a few % and get to the bottom without crashing a bit more, he'd be right up there then.
It's good having a bit of a shake up with lots of younger guys coming through, Greenland has to win soon. Pierron reminds me of Ratboy a couple years ago when he got his mojo going with a few wins then was unstoppable.
Hopefully Gwinn will get back to 100% soon and with Minaar and Moir possibly back for the next one it should be interesting.
Hopefully Gwinn will get back to 100% soon and with Minaar and Moir possibly back for the next one it should be interesting.
I think Gwinn might have pushed too hard to try and get back, sounded like he was going to miss Mt St Anne too if he doesn't recover which would have him trying to come back for Worlds, Greg having the warm up of 2 races before that could work for him
Memory like a sieve here but I don’t recall seeing him being on the live feed from the last 3 rounds
He was on the Red bull feed, he's one of the riders I make a point of looking out for as he's in my fantasy DH team.
Dude needs a better PR manager. He must be the top guy at Mondy (obviously he is currently based on results) but there's little press coverage about him. Last year Danny had loads, PB bike checks, interviews, lots of chat about him from Rob and Claudio.
