Rachel Atherton and Stevie Smith fastest WC qualifiers in Hafjell, Norway
Steve Smith and Rachel Atherton light up the after burners for convincing qualifying wins in Hafjell, Norway!
Stevie Smith was on an absolute flier at Hafjell, nearly five seconds quicker than Swede Robin Wallner with Smith’s Devinci team mate George Brannigan in 3rd spot.
Bryceland in 5th. Rock on.
Hup hup Greg Williamson 19th!
Jack Reading 24th!
Roy Cat Cunningham 29th.
Ben Reid 32nd
Brook MacDonald must have binned it up top, he finished way down.
Aaron Gwin rolled out of the start gate nursing an injury.
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Rachel Atherton blitzed the field by almost 7 seconds in Hafjell qualifying with Manon Carpenter 2nd and Emmeline Ragot 3rd.
Atherton was 80 points clear coming into this race so this win will do her overall chance a power of good.
Floriane Pugin didn’t start.
IT’S GETTING TENSE !
Come on Smith! Hope it was all skill and not just everyone else taking it easy for qualis now that points dont matter too much.
Cum on rat boy it’s urs man.
Check out the girl on 13th place, she´s turning 40 today. Go Lina Go…
Nice! promising results for my fantasy team!
Come on peaty!!
Woah, matti and Bryn breaking the 70kph mark too…
Yeah! Matti scared NO MORE! Fastest on speedtrap!
And here is how you do it http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/8659726/
HOW DO THE SPLITS WORK!!???!?!?!??!?!
The splits add up greater than the finish times??? Like check out Bryn’s splits and they are alot better than the rider who is one better than him and yet Bryn is placed after him!?!?!?!? HELP PLEASE!?
Split time 1 is the time it took from the start gate to the first split and split 2 is the time it took from the start gate to split 2. You don’t combine the two times from split 1 and split two.
ie, something went wrong with the run of Atkinson between split 2 and the finish which dropped him some places….
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