Welcome to Devinci Global Racing's 2016 UCI/EWS Team
Devinci Global Racing drops into a new season of savage battles with a dangerous roster of familiar and new faces for 2016. Team manager Gabe Fox says the talent-rich lineup is one of the strongest, fastest in DGR history. “I’m looking for these pros to feed off each other and to seeing regular podium appearances,” he adds. “Get ready for an exciting one.”
Governing the gravity charge for a sixth straight season, former World Cup Champion, Steve Smith is on a mission to repeat. And following two years of sidelining injuries, he’s spent the winter attacking tracks and getting back to race-winning form.
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Joining Smith in the hunt for DH dominance are Mark Wallace and rookie Norwegian Brage Vestavik. Wallace enters 2016 on the smoking wheels of a breakout season that included 6th place at the Mont-Sainte-Anne World Cup and a massive 2nd place at Crankworx. Seventeen-year-old Vestavik, on the other hand, is a Hafjell Bike Park mainstay, who's been crushing podiums in Norway since he was knee'high to a Viking's battleaxe. Look for him to unleash that arsenal of potential across the JR World Cup calendar this year. (Image circa 2013 - fresh images of Brage coming soon.)
Alongside the gravity team, DGR’s enduro squad will be rallying hard on the Enduro World Series (EWS) stage. Frenchman Damien Oton, the 2014 EWS overall 2nd place finisher, returns hungry after a strong start to last season veered off-course due to a string of minor injuries. “I’m amped for the season opener in Chile.” Oton says. “Consistency in all ten events will be the key to winning the championship.” Fellow Frenchman Theo Galy accompanies Oton on his EWS quest and at other special events around the globe. Finally, three young development riders will also race select events with DGR in 2016: Magnus Manson (gravity), Stu Dickson (enduro), and Luke Di Marzo (enduro/XC).
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Photo credits: Mayhem Media, Sven Martin, Vegard Breie, Martin I. Dalen.
The UCI World Cup season detonates in April, when the DH team travels to Lourdes, France. And in March, the EWS squad sets its sites on the first test of the season at Valdivia, Chile.
Reliable, cutting-edge equipment is crucial to race-day success and Devinci Global Racing’s handpicked partners are industry leaders in their respective categories, giving team riders the best chance to land on the podium. For 2016, DGR is proudly supported by Cycles Devinci, SRAM, RockShox, Maxxis, Race Face, Fox Head, ODI, SDG, E-13, Hitcase, Crankbrothers, Scratch Labs, Maxima, Biknd, FSA, Five Ten, 2Undr, and Projekt.
MENTIONS: @devinci / @SramMedia / @Maxxis / @raceface / @Fox-Head-Inc / @Odigrips / @Hitcase / @crankbrothers / @MaximaBIKE / @FiveTen
Governing the gravity charge for a sixth straight season, former World Cup Champion, Steve Smith is on a mission to repeat. And following two years of sidelining injuries, he’s spent the winter attacking tracks and getting back to race-winning form.
 | I've had an awesome offseason, with tons of riding, training, physio and doing everything I can to better myself - both physically and mentally, the mental game is essential to racing and there's a huge difference between 'wanting' to win and 'knowing' you can. I'm more excited to be back racing than I've ever been. - Steve Smith |
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Mark Wallace
Brage Vestavik at home in Norway.
Joining Smith in the hunt for DH dominance are Mark Wallace and rookie Norwegian Brage Vestavik. Wallace enters 2016 on the smoking wheels of a breakout season that included 6th place at the Mont-Sainte-Anne World Cup and a massive 2nd place at Crankworx. Seventeen-year-old Vestavik, on the other hand, is a Hafjell Bike Park mainstay, who's been crushing podiums in Norway since he was knee'high to a Viking's battleaxe. Look for him to unleash that arsenal of potential across the JR World Cup calendar this year. (Image circa 2013 - fresh images of Brage coming soon.)
Alongside the gravity team, DGR’s enduro squad will be rallying hard on the Enduro World Series (EWS) stage. Frenchman Damien Oton, the 2014 EWS overall 2nd place finisher, returns hungry after a strong start to last season veered off-course due to a string of minor injuries. “I’m amped for the season opener in Chile.” Oton says. “Consistency in all ten events will be the key to winning the championship.” Fellow Frenchman Theo Galy accompanies Oton on his EWS quest and at other special events around the globe. Finally, three young development riders will also race select events with DGR in 2016: Magnus Manson (gravity), Stu Dickson (enduro), and Luke Di Marzo (enduro/XC).
Damien Oton
Theo Galy
Photo credits: Mayhem Media, Sven Martin, Vegard Breie, Martin I. Dalen.
The UCI World Cup season detonates in April, when the DH team travels to Lourdes, France. And in March, the EWS squad sets its sites on the first test of the season at Valdivia, Chile.
Reliable, cutting-edge equipment is crucial to race-day success and Devinci Global Racing’s handpicked partners are industry leaders in their respective categories, giving team riders the best chance to land on the podium. For 2016, DGR is proudly supported by Cycles Devinci, SRAM, RockShox, Maxxis, Race Face, Fox Head, ODI, SDG, E-13, Hitcase, Crankbrothers, Scratch Labs, Maxima, Biknd, FSA, Five Ten, 2Undr, and Projekt.
MENTIONS: @devinci / @SramMedia / @Maxxis / @raceface / @Fox-Head-Inc / @Odigrips / @Hitcase / @crankbrothers / @MaximaBIKE / @FiveTen
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1-Gwin. I think the new bike works for him and he would be on the front from the very beginning.
2-Brosnan if recovered. This man have the best body language in the world cup.
3-Bruni. Strong and agile, the future of the sport.
4-Minaar. So old and still so fresh. He knows how to ride, if the other are not at 100% he can beat them all.
5-Stevie. In 2013 he was unstoppable hope to see him in form.
6-Brycyeland. He has getting up to speed by the end of last year, maybe a real threat again.
6-Gee. Bad two years in a row to Gee standard, I hope this year with Trek gives him some more motivation.
From my point of view Hart is not that fast lately and Hill needs to get up to speed.
So he's gonna stay with DGR for another 6 seasons?
For me it´s going to be a Graves-Rude fight.
Barel is retired.
Leov and Clementz seem to be lacking a bit of speed.
Vouilloiz is probably too old to be 100% motivated the full season.
Maes needs consistency.
Callaghan is a complete ? for me, maybe he can win again.
Nicolai needs confidence.
Lau was off form last year.
Absalon was coming to speed, maybe this year...
Disapointing again no females in both of these teams DH and Enduro, for the sport to grow and these teams to be long term sponsor attractive they need to represent the other 50% of the human population, its 2016 not 1916!
Referring to Nick Beer:
www.radon-bikes.de/radon-life/radon-racing-teams/radon-magura-factory-dh-team
Beerten
Good luck for the season
Adding a woman to the team just for the sake of it would be demeaning. Instead of encouraging female racers to progress, lets just lower the bar and put them on teams anyway. Can I get a factory sponsorship while we're at it too?
Pretty sure he'd scrub better than dogs do! I see it in slow mo in my head.