Incredible racing in Champery: Two top tens for SCOTT11!

Another world cup race, another incredible story. Champery held the worlds toughest downhill race of all times today, and SCOTT11 was one of the main actors in the story. The mud was deep and sticky, the track was steep and rutted.

Fabien Pedemanaud is faster than ever before and his motivation speaks for itself. Even a quick shoulder dislocation during practice could not stop him from trying to win this legendary world cup. Going fastest through the split times after a small crash, he crashed again trying to ride an almost impossible line. Though, Fabien kept attacking and finished in 7th place!

Nick Beer was riding cautious thinking of the overall world cup. He didn't want to take too much risk after he had already crashed in the last world cup in Leogang.
With his safe run, he placed 15th and took a lot of important points for the team.

For the girls, it was even harder: We put their bikes on the scale after their run and found out they were carrying 7kg of mud! That means, this race was really a question of fitness for the girls.

Floriane Pugin was very nervous before her start, as she had the worst qualifier of the season the day before. Still, she managed to stay on the bike and get another podium with the rough place.

Emilie Siegenthaler was the first woman out of the start, but the conditions were just too difficult for her comeback after her back injury. She had to give up the race half way down because she just didn't have any power left to maneuver her bike.

After the strong performance of our athletes, SCOTT11 is back on the second place in the overall world cup team ranking.

The exciting race in Champery will be followed next weekend by the world cup in Val di Sole, Italy, with a course that might be just as difficult. We're looking forward to it!

Pictures by Sven Martin