frankereich – MS INTENSE RACING

23 August 2018

worldcup round 7 La Bresse

admin Allgemein, racing brage Vestavik, brook macdonald, Fabian Ulrich, france, frankereich, ici mtb worldcup, Johannes von Klebelsberg, La Bresse, laurie greenland, mike jones, patrik butler, worldcup2018

Day 4:

La Bresse- UCI mountain bike world cup 2018 is in the books with a final, which had potential for going into the books of history. Like in qualification rain kept pouring down. The conditions were already difficult on the day before, but every rider since then had a massive impact on the track. Roots were coming out, ruts appear and the dirt became real loamy.

Mike was the first of the MS Mondraker squad- he had (by his own words) a too conservative run and was not able to beat the time of Martin Meas, who crowed himself to the winner of this final world cup round. Mike finished in 23^rdplace. Laurie, still handicapped by his twisted ankle, also could beat the time of Meas and finished in 18^thplace. This got him into 5^thplace of the UCI overall world cup ranking. As it looked like no one could beat the time of Martin Meas or even could get on the podium, Brook started into his run. With the two fastest top split times, he opened the race again. He lost some from split 2 to3 and some more from 3 to 4, but he was still in reach of second place. Brooked crossed the finish line in 3^rdand there was just one more rirder to come down. Season dominator from France Amaury Pierron was the last man to come down and it looked like he would beat the time of Martin Meas until he crashed in the last corner before the finish jump. In the end Brook finished in 3^rdplace and managed to make up some positions in the overall from 8^thto 6^thplace.

Overall we had a very good race weekend and we can’t complain of how the season went. We showed a strong performance and we were in touch with all top teams. We finished as 4^thin the team overall ranking and we are proud to achieve that with our rider squad.

Now we have a weekend of till we head to our season highlight the world championships in Lenzerheide/ Siwtzerland. Stay tuned.

: massive crowd in La Bresse.

: Brook MacDonald on his way to 3rd place.

: Mike jones had a little bit too conservative run and finished in 23rd.

: happy to be back on the podium- Brook MacDonald.

: another "shoey" for Brook.

: Champagne shower.

: Laurie with another UCI trophy: 5th place in the overall standing. Mission accomplished.

: overall world cup podium.

Day 3:

Massive weather-change from training days to qualification: after 2 ½ month of no rain in La Bresse the sky opened it’s doors and it was pouring down for the qualification round. While Brook qualified in 4^th, Laurie took it easy to save some corns for finals- Laurie finished in 49^th. Mike had a massive mistake in his run. He cased the first jump out of the woods and had no speed for the upcoming jump line. Apart from that he had a good run and managed to finish in 9^thplace.

The co-factory had a bad day. While Fabian could not start because of an ongoing knee injury, Patrik, Johannes and Brage could not qualify in these horrific conditions- shattered dreams.

: pouring down rain- no doubt!

: disappointed Johannes von Klebelsberg- missed qualification.

: no happy about conditions and be holden back by a twisted ankle.

: shattered drames- Brage Vestavik could not qualify!

: Also not qualified for the finals for the last world cup of the season- Pat Butler.

: Johannes showed a strong performance in timed training, but the conditions probably changed too much.

: Laurie on a cruising run.

: very wet and difficult conditions in qualification.

Day 2:

Even the track is short it seems to be amazing. Riders like the mix of natural sections, with man made jumps and berms in combination with rock drops and flat out pedaling. As said the track is with 2:20:00 pretty short, but the timesheet from timed training showed it’s going be a tight race.

Brook was on fire and finished 5^th. Johannes had a pretty good day as well and finished in 16^th. Laurie was still a little bit handicapped because of his twisted ankle from Mont Saint Anne and finished 41th without having a full on run so far and Mike Jones finished in 33^rd.

: Brook on fire again these days... 5th place in timed training.

: Laurie still a little bit hold back from his twisted ankle, but he should be fine for the race.

: Mike is building up again and will be ready for world champs.

: Can Laurie make another podium this weekend?

: co factory train with Brage Vestavik and Pat Butler.

: MS Mondraker train is on track.

: Also on fire these days is cofactors rider Johannes von Klebelsberg- 16th place in timed training

: for sure one of the contenders this weekend.

Day 1:

Here we are at the last round of the 2018 UCI MTB world cup in La Bresse/ France. We have been racing here back in 2009 and 2011, but on a different track. The memories were not the best and so the excitement level wasn’t really high, but after track walk we have been happy. The Track shows everything we want to see: flat, pedaling parts mixed with steep bits and man made sections mixed with natural terrain. The track will be around 2:30:00 long, but we will know for sure after the first training session.