Valparaiso Cerro Abajo Urban DH Race Live Webcast
Watch the craziest race in the world live! Valparaiso Cerro Abajo, the urban downhill race in Chile, South America kicks off on Sunday at 19.00pm GMT
UPDATE: Live on Sunday 19th at 19.00pm
Instead of watching “Come Dine With Me” or “You’ve Been Framed” why not tune in to the live webcast of the bonkers VCA race at 19.00pm GMT? It’s waaaaay better!
(Click play on the player at the bottom of this post, just like Nic found out!)
Photographer Fraser Britton is in Chile right now, eating Churrasco and drinking Leche con Plátano, so expect a full race report soon!
2011 winner, Filip Polc, must be a hot favourite to win in 2012.
Press play on the above (it’s not a photo! It’s an actual real life video player gizmo!)
Got a link to where we can watch it?! My spanish isn’t too good and I have no idea where I am mean to be looking.
Ah shite. So the picture at the bottom is not a picture but a video…sorry for being a retard.
Soz, my fault, should have made it clearer!
They have the date wrong on the player, it’s actually live on Sunday the 19th, Freecaster will fix that shortly.
Who’s bringing the crisps?
Ah bollox! So its on Sunday? Just told the bird i’m not feeling well and got the beers in to watch it tonight!
SUNDAY?!! Ahhh Booo!!! Got my Stowford’s and Cheese and Onion crisps and everything ready to go!
Nice, I popped by at the right time. Pitta and houmous in my house.
@Fraser, you got a helmet cam or something we can watch now we’re all sat on the sofa?!
Never mind; same time tomorrow chaps?
ah man was all ready for this.
Who’s gonna be on the mic?
I swear that guy just sits talking in spainish ? I can’t hear him
currently its showing a women picking her nose.. nice..
@Billy – No one can ride the course before Sunday at 10am local. Part of a deal with the city and the neighborhood association as the course completely disrupts traffic, goes over people’s doorsteps etc.
Helmet cams won’t pop up until post race sadly, but I’ll get you one on either CG or Polc.
Spanish commentator is some local guy, but for those of us who do not habla the espanol, Chris Van Dine will be providing commentary.
got to have chips for this
Got to wait for the girlfriend to get ready and wake up and such before I can drive there, how frustrating! Any ideas on how long the competition runs for?
http://extreme.com/mountainbike/1019851/vca-2012 STREAMING!!!!!!! ese es el streaming en vivo del VCA
anyone else having streaming problems ?
dale C.G!!comete un pastel de choclo antes la bajada!!!!
que esta pasando??nada pasa!!??
Heartbreaker by Led Zep? nice. though a little absurd. get the thing started El Boyos.
Love how those two boys stopped what they were doing (presumably waffling on about the race) when the pit girls rocked up. AY CARUMBA!
Moar pit girlz please!
where on earth is Rob Warner, and why is he not telling us to look at the time while we watch this race! I know its great that their doing a live stream of this and all, but considering it said it started at 6:30 and its now 50 minutes on and all I’ve seen and heard are two spanish guys ranting on, its not the best!
FFS! The quality is a joke. Are the upcoming wolrdcups going to be streamed live by redbull.tv? I wonder how that goes…
All I see is a spinning circle.
All I see is a wall ride, some people shopping and the finish arena. Might switch over to Come Dine With Me:-(
ANIMO VALPO!!DESDE SUIZA!!!
yeh billy, but did you see what they were shopping for at the finish line? ……. your very own pit girly!
Poor streaming and so far only 3 camers angles and 2 of those are at the same place the finish…
So glad i’ve not held a “Valparaiso Cerro Abajo Urban DH Race Live Webcast party” and asked anyone to come round to watch this…
Can’t find you’ve been framed or Come dine with me either..
worst stream i have ever seen!
Holy shit Batman that was a waste of a packet of salted peanuts and a 8 pack….cant sit through any more of this. gonna wait for the edit reply..
Was this filmed on a calculator ?
I’ve resealed my party bag of Cheese and Onion crisps and put the Stowfords back in the fridge.
If the Chilean miners had been made to watch this when they were trapped the probably would have topped themselves…
This is hands down the worst thing I’ve ever seen! I was really looking forward to it as well. I got that sinking feeling when, 30 mins in, I had still only seen people milling about in the sun!
hate to be critical but unless this is some sort of prelude, its pretty dull. only 2 or 3 cameras? Surely not
More Pit Girls till the action starts
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OK, got it all working now. So, we’re looking at a big sweaty bloke and some chap carrying a full face, chatting in ‘thhe thhe thhe gracias’ language at whoever cares to listen.
Hang on, somethings happening……….no, just a fart!
I’m proper looking forward to the highlights cos this is normally a great event!!!
Btw Billy that new poll vote i love the hard tails but only have springs . dont want to vote and be classed as a hard tail hater.. can you put in a vote for the lover of both bikes ?
Here’s something from today
http://vimeo.com/37065504
Most boring sunday ever!
1st Mauricio Acuna 2nd Filip Polc 3th Marcelo Gutierrez 4th Cedric Gracia
Seariously, if they put half the effort they put into creating the course into producing some semi workable footage it might have been worth watchin!!! WTF was that!! how do we expect our sport to develope and grow and attract better media attention when thats the kinda drivell that gets produced to promote the sport! And please for the love of god bring back Warner and Pagey, i understand the comentator/MC being foreign, but more then half the planet speaks the Queens English, surely it would have been more enjoyable for everyone if we could understand what was going on.
Rant over.
Watched (joke!) 10 mins of this and sacked it off… The comments on here made me laugh though
Had a bit of fun in the chat box but that was about it:P
crappiest live ever. 2 lo res cams, bad servers, useless spanish speaker.
crappiest live ever. 2 lo res cams, bad servers, useless spaish speaker and long times spent watching people walking by.
The cable ran along the ground between the finish and the wall, in the lower sections, normally through the edge of the crowd, with only push connections, not surprised it was a disaster.