I've never met the guy nor do I know of him on any level, BUT - based on interviews it does seem that he's a bit negative / hard on himself.
...once again proving that on average, Aussies are harder than a coffin nail. :biggrin:
50m ? thats 150+ feet... even in pink bike feet that sounds a bit blown out of proportion. or did you mean that he finally came to a stop 50m out?
Ya, his person and bike careened about that far.
sounds like he got lucky to come away uninjured... and only 5 seconds down to still salvage 100 points from the weekend.
don't know if would have been 10 seconds on that track. But from the few people i talked to, word around the pits was that Sam's speed in practice had everyone a bit nervous of what he might do to them on Sunday.Yeah I;ve not seen the footage of Sam's crash yet, but I too noticed that he finished only 5 seconds off the win... ergo the crash can't have been that crazy at all, surely? Or would we have had a 10 second smackdown by him if he'd held it together?
Seriously, I have to believe that if Sam knows his splits are as up as they are on these tech courses...he might think about chilling out a bit for the lower bits.Yeah I;ve not seen the footage of Sam's crash yet, but I too noticed that he finished only 5 seconds off the win... ergo the crash can't have been that crazy at all, surely? Or would we have had a 10 second smackdown by him if he'd held it together?
The original alien, Nico, seemed to have an uncanny ability to know just how much time he could afford to give up when on a stormer of a run (though before is was against the rules i'm pretty sure he was told what his split times were at some races). Regardless, Nico just seemed to have a sense of how fast he needed to go and how much he needed to push it for a win.
Not true. I used to watch world cup downhill on the Outdoor Life Network durring the mid to late 90's. That's the reason I got A satellite in the first place. Freecaster is pretty good though.
My bad... It was midnight and I was lagered and absolutely gutted that Hill didn't keep it together.
- A little less speed there and the win was his, hills desire to destroy the opposition and not just win shows through - such an exiting rider to watch, maybe on another day he would have landed that.
I remember that, thats how come I got in to DH.
Yeah but Sam doesn't know if he's behind or in front remember. It might look like he made a silly choice there, but we have the benefit of split-times and hindsight when we watch the what happened.
Aye, that's a lot longer. I was talking about the part he actually really loses the bike. Freeze that clip shot from the top at about 00:32 and you see him landing frontwheel first but still "manage" and not go otb. Then he crashes hard and the rest is hard to tell from those clips. But true if you're talking about from top he flies quite the distance.
