world cup round 1 Maribor
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- head mechanic Ben in charge for tire choice- Micheline 22 or 34?
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- new member Eleonora Farina.
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- Laurie Greenland in his fresh Fox kit.
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- Laurie Greenland taking off in Maribor...
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- Brook MacDonald looking even stronger than in 2018.
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- Brage Vestavik- will he qualify for the race?
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- Thibault Laly showed top 20 section times- what can we expect?
Day 2:
With the first training we started into the season. There was nothing really unexpected: the track was really fast- section wise too fast why the UCI shut down a line in the rock garden for rider’s safety. But other than that the training went good with good section times in timed training.
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- Maribor start house- 1st world cup race of the season is about to start.
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- Mark Sterland with Ludwig Götzendorfer- the good soul of the team.
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- not easy these days to find the fastest line... seems like there a lot of question marks.
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- Mike and Brook searching for the fastest line.
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- Head mechanic Ben got crazy after a long preparation period- but we are ready.
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- Stefan Doppling setting up his working space- tool box wars.
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- Mark Sterland preparing the bike for Laurie Greenland.
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- New team member Eleonora Farina
Day X- here we are:
Finally we are back to race world cups. This is the first round of the 2019 UCI mountain bike world cup in Maribor/ Slovenia. We have been racing here back in 2010 and Maribor was always a nice place to go for a season starter. Maribor is a nice little city close to the Austrian border and offers some good riding. The track was infamous because of a difficult rock garden and because it’s so fast.
The first impression of the track was good and the track looks in shape even there has been a European IXS cup round on the same track a week ago. Stay tuned for more news.