We went trackside with Alan Milway in Andorra for the fifth round of the UCI Downhill World Cup. With a completely fresh track, Alan broke down the different aspects of this unique race weekend. Do you think you could ride this track? Let us know in the comments below 👇
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hi i’m alan millway with trackside here in andorra it’s a brand new track for this year very different and it’s got a lot of diverse elements [Music] [Music] the conditions here it’s really hot it’s really dry and it’s really dusty and that means that the terrain doesn’t actually offer a lot of grip so the riders are somewhat struggling to slow down into the corners and because of that they’re trying to get this balance between all out speed and having the control to manage their momentum get slightly offline go slightly too hot into a corner and you’ve got a lot of problems the winner at this race i think this weekend is going to be the person that’s able to conserve that speed as much as possible and find that fine balance get that fine line between all out speed and keeping control there’s a number of elements on this track it’s split sort of into different sections at the top we’ve got some big bipod berms and some big jumps these are huge jumps it’s really impressive to see the riders take these in their stride from here we go into some rock sections that there are a number of lines that are developing inside lines and outside lines it’s a really rough rough terrain and rough track where they’re trying to maintain speed and then we drop into the forest the forest is a little bit more almost like an ews style corners keeping speed not that steep we’ve also got some bridges now the bridges are actually quite tricky and it wouldn’t surprise me whether we see some mistakes happen on what potentially is the easiest part of the track just because riders are trying to push on something where there isn’t much grip because of the construction of the bridge because of the nature of the track it’s so high speed but it’s also very very tight riders are going to be going all out and that could end up leading to some mistakes we might see some shuffling around of the of the top end of the the order but also some riders might have some incredible splits but also then end up going offline or making a mistake that could lead to a crash for riders that are getting into racing a track like this really does highlight some key factors when it comes to your approach you want to build speed gradually a lot of these riders haven’t just gone flat out into this first run they’ve gradually built up their speed the other key point to make is that they’re not just going full guns blazing they’re trying to find that fine balance between speed and control toby driscoll in back a shot styling out for the cameras [Music] yeah tobes cool that’s an outtake