Well, more accurately it rained throughout the entire event. Friday afternoon was Sunny, but most of the rest of the 3 days was wet. Sunday was arguably the wettest day though, can't deny it :)
In the UK the rule is that each marshal should have line-of-sight to the next one. In reality that rule is stretched a bit, but generally we have nearly a full complement of them. A two-minute track would typically have 8-10 marshals in the UK, somewhere like Fort William more like 25.
This...
Junior Men results:
1) BEL Martin Maes 4:51.072
2) FRA Loris Vergier 4:52.370
3) ESP Alex Marin Trillo 4:55.000
4) GBR Drew Carters 4:55.706
5) GBR Taylor Vernon 4:55.776
I'm informed that this bike is just the same aluminium 650b that Brosnan had at the British national race at Fort William a few weeks ago.
Supposedly the NEW new demo will be debuting at Crankworx.
Whaddya know, Gwin was right, those woops WERE dangerous! The spectator crash....:
And again, from a slightly different angle:
Ain't mobile phones wonderful!
I'm assuming that he had another more serious detour from the course at some point. I agree that UCI know better than to disqualify someone for the bit we saw on the feed (if he even did go around a pole in that bit?)
Had to revise the results - UCI have disqualified Minnaar, and then I made an error when amending that. I think everything's correct now.
Serves me right for pulling results from live timing instead of waiting for the official PDF!
So, I've done mah thing:
Cairns full results on R&R
Fastest sectors:
1st sector: Loic Bruni, 1:18.570, 1.194s up on Neko.
2nd sector: Gee Atherton, 1:33.042, 1.652s up on Gwin.
3rd sector: Sam Dale, 1:06.548, 0.553 up on Blenkinsop.
If you add those together you get a "perfect" run of...
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