Worldcup 2010 is past. It’s for sure not the late-breaking clip as Leogang was almost 3 month ago. Nevertheless we want to show you what has happen since then… enjoy!
Folge 63 – Exklusive MS Evil Racing UCI Worldcup #3 Leogang 2010 from MTB-freeride.tv on Vimeo.
It’s hard to find the right words about what has happened at the DH finals of the World championships 2010 in Mount Saint Anne/ Canada. For MS EVIL RACING it was just awesome and the best race weekend in our young history. With the 2nd place of Steve and the 3rd place of Lewis in the junior’s DH we have been one of the most successful UCI trade teams of the week.
The wave of success started with Leonard who became in-official world champion of the mechanics in frame of the “boxer worlds”, continues with the 3rd place and first podium of Lewis Buchanan at the junior world champions race and finishes with Steve Smith with a 2nd place and his first top 3 result in a top UCI race.
Lewis got into the race with serious chance on the world champion title. Unfortunately he bend his right pedal in the top section and wasn’t able to pedal anymore. Nevertheless he was pushing hard and so he was still able to get on the podium with he shared with Troy Brosnan of Monster Specialized and Neko Mullaly.
After the juniors the race was on for the elite riders. First to come down was Ryan Vanderham and his brother Thomas Vanderham, who are not member of MS EVIL RACING, but good friends of our team. Thomas got into the hotseat and was able to finish in 34th position- not bad for someone who is known for being a freerider.
Brook, Luke and Filip came in a package and were able to finish in top places. Especially Brook underlined his results of his 2010 season with a 12th place and Luke came back after a bad crash and crankworx and a solid but not outstanding season. Filip ended up 23rd position after he finished 8th in the 4X two days before the DH race.
Steve was the last men of MS EVIL RACING to go and we were thrilled as he came thru the 2 splits with awesome times and an incredible run. Just a view seconds before the finish and in the last technical section he had a bad mistake and almost got off the bike. Luckily he was bale to stay on the bike and got in the hotsteat. Just one racer after he took place in the hotseat Sam Hill came down and beat Steve by 2.63 sec. After that no other rider was able to beat the times of Sam or Steve and so the podium was fixed with Sam on the top box, Steve in 2nd and Minaar in 3rd.
We want to congratulate Sean Heimdal and the Monster Specialized team on their two world champion titles- that was a demonstration, but hopefully we are able to strike back in 2011.
Now it’s time for us to say good by till we are back in 2011 and for saying thank you to all the people who helped us to make this happen.
Thanks to:
Kevin Walsh, Gabe Fox, Evan M. Choltco- Delvin and Leonard of Evil bikes
Dave Weagle- mastermind behind the delta link
Michael Kull of Schwalbe
Mark Fitzsimmons, Christophe and Justin of Fox Racing Shox
Michael Tobler of e13
Thomas Davy of Mavic
Gabriele Mazzarolo, Claudia Marcolin, the race support crew and Hans van der Gried of Alpinestars
Sebastian Keck of Holmenkol
WTB¬
Cole
Gravity
all the people at Red Bull
Special thanks to:
Christian Schandl- first mechanic, bus driver and technical boss
Benedikt Rieder- race support truck driver and utility men
Peter Kaufmann- mechanic since the beginning of MS-RACING
Martin Newhill- body mechanic and sunshine of MS-RACING
Igor- interim mechanic
Domenico and Alex of MTBfreeride.tv
“morning breath” for their awesome designs
all the family members in the background.
Furthermore we want to thank all the people who might have been involved in our success we maybe don’t know by name or we forgot to list above- thank you!
