Archive for July, 2010

Domenico and Alex from mtbfreeride.tv catch some impressions of the race weekend in Champery/ Switzerland.

 

 

 

 

Big thank you to the crew of mtbfreeride.tv for this insight into our life.

 

 

 

When it comes to a World Cup, the weather always rains on our parade. When we arrived in Champery on Tuesday the weather was amazing with temperatures of 30° for setting up the pits, but as we got closer to the race day the weather got worse and worse. The race track was deterioratingextremely badly due to the wet weather. The mood in the pits was that no one was looking forward to racing such a difficult track like Champery in the wet. Loads of rain made the challenging track of Champery an almost unrideable monster. It was all about staying on the bike, which made riders runs look more of rodeo than anything else.

 

MS Evil Racing was on site with Steve, Luke, Brook and Lewis, but Filip unfortunately crashed hard on his head the weekend before Champery and was unable to make the trip to Champery on doctors advice.

 

In qualifying some riders stepped their game up in the wet like Wyn Masters and the MS Evil rider Brook MacDonald who qualified 11th. Unfortunately all other MS EVIL riders didn’t fare so well in qualifying crashing and ending up disappointed with their qualifying results. The team results were as follows: 32nd place for Luke, 51st place for Steve and 86th place for Lewis. Everyone was ready for race day to make amends for their mishaps in qualifying. Steve and Luke looked strong until the first split, but again the hill got the better if them, sending them to the ground and out of podium contention for the weekend.
So it was up to Brook to carry the torch for MS/Evil for the weekend. Brook came through with an extremely impressive run, he ended in 6th place just missing a podium appearance by a small margin. This was Brook’s best result in the World Cup series in his young career and one of the best results for MS EVIL RACING team in 2010.

 

MS EVIL RACING team manager Lukas Haider “It was amazing to see Brook prove his talent in these conditions and a pleasure to see him in the top 10 of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Champery!”

 

 

 

 

1. Gee Atherton GBR/ Atherton Racing
2. Greg Minaar RSA/ Santa Cruz Syndicate
3. Brendan Fairclough GBR/ Monster Energy Specialized
4. Sam Blenkinsop NZL/ Lapierre international
5. Damien Spagnolo FRA/ Mondraker Factory Team
6. Brook MacDonald NZL/ MS EVIL RACING
40. Steve Smith CAN/ MS EVIL RACING
46. Luke Strobel USA/ MS EVIL RACING

Full results on uci.ch

 

 

 

Here we go with the 2nd issue of our brand new podcast produced by mtbfreeride.tv. Dom and Alex followed us on our tour thru Scottland and show the daily grind of a professional mountainbike race team.

 

 

 

 

Stay tuned for the next episodes…