Santa Cruz Syndicate 2009 World Cup, Vallnord, Andorra

peaty wins his 17th World Cup DH race! That’s one more than Nico. That’s one more than anyone. That’s Peaty becoming the winningest DH racer ever. Hell Yeah!

Falling down again and Dora I mean as you can see it’s pretty beautiful up here but that’s we’ll set up in the pits is not that good the tracks are out in the tracks in a good place they didn’t do any work on it from last year so it’s

Pretty beat-up and rough but it’s a real weird layout the pits are up at the top and then you have to go over to another hill to get the lift up to do the down also it’s all spread out a lot so the atmosphere is not that good at this rate

But trucks whine and racing I’ll be good on Sunday just attract a little bit to get stuck in a little paste if you look carefully what am I my master sort of hang on a bit so it’s good for me push harder and everything yeah just trying to reel them

In down my hair it’s good the guys are going great in practice today we’ve just been chilling out in the evenings we’re staying in some little apartments little ways away from here and each night after the track we just go back and yeah I cook for him get

Him resting and giving massages and keep him resting and happy some of them haven’t felt so good all week so just they try to get him a good night’s sleep and the other night we had some really loud people so I talked to them last night now something to please be quiet

And they tried a little bit but yeah the guys are sleeping good eating good and we’re just keeping them on track and mechanics got their bikes dialed SRAM RockShox they’re getting everything just sweet as and just got the minis going they just got back I’ve got some tuna

Salad for them and some pasta trying to keep them healthy and ready to ride a little bit more practice to look at some oyster so yeah no way I’m going in my lines one of the things we’ve base frame lon this year is both Greg and Steve are

Running the nine and a half inch high shock just makes a shot we’re less hard you still getting ten inches of travel but we had to do a couple of design modifications so we have a new handmade CNC custom link back here Steven Gregor on the black box ten speed just makes it

More precise for shifting in between turns and so then get a little bit more exit speed out and the main thing again is just trying to shave that time out if you can get the right gear and your exit speed is good and you’re gonna be that

Much faster when you’re getting out of turn it’s all about shaving time off and getting that down the hill and try and kick that win I wrote the top section like I’ve done in practice but I put it behind me after I got into the hope a bit and just went

Hard and I had had a really good bottom section so I’m pretty pleased about I’ve got top 15 in the back there we go I think I think if I had not made a one or two as I said I think I want to being on Steve’s though now here are good if

You want a guiding it’s syndicates are taken over you know when the first second third world cup nothing cuadrado Ford William service you’re like who’s there I just go to a speed off that little job you ran white but it was super mistake but

I thought I was down and up as soon as possible please to our stock tonight Maxwell wrong you didn’t feel that good at a couple of moments when I was just stalling and getting a little bit laying not really carrying this lead the best so I just thought I didn’t think I was

Gonna win with that run I knew that son was quickly he’s in it he’s small and it allowed the trees walk quicker and me sup well I didn’t think I was gonna win and it’s gonna take a lot look to win i reaiiy had a really good bottom off I

Had nailed this last board I think that’s what I made of time on jian-yang definitely so I wrote alright but just didn’t think it was a winning run and then it’s gonna take some work so Sam gave me a gift getting the boys good all week as you

Know and the nerves and the pits before they took off today you could feel like they just had that right level attention and it was seeping into me I can feel it and I’ve never been more like anxious and nervous before a race and watching them come down and watch it unfold and

Josh came down with such a good time and I kept holding and holding and so he’s finished ninth I think it was nine so top ten for Josh what out got us some more points you