Les Gets Pumped - Crankworx Les Gets 2016

With the weather being as temperamental as it was this week, there was a real sense of urgency to get racing at the pump track. With ominous clouds creeping slowly up the valley, and mist hanging in the trees, the lights were switched on, the tarpaulins lifted off the track, and we were underway.

Although the backdrop may have been moody and sullen, the racing was not. But unfortunately as the heats progressed, so did the bad weather. During the quarter-finals the tarpaulins were pulled back onto the track and racing was halted as the rain set in. The team at Les Gets scraped and flattened the track, dried out the berms with a blowtorch, and after a thirty-minute delay, the quarter-finals were back on. The action was short-lived, though, with the return of the rain at the end of the quarterfinals, and a decision to postpone the remainder of racing to the following day.

Come Saturday the weather was wreaking havoc on the slopestyle competition in the morning, but we were lucky enough to have a break in the afternoon long enough to run the pump track finals. The French fans were there en masse armed with everything from foam hands to a chainsaw rev-off.

In the end, we saw Laura Brethauer secure a great result, narrowly losing to Jill Kintner who was on the hunt for her second Queen of Crankworx title. In the men's race, there was massive drama as Adrien Loron went down not once but twice, colliding with Tomas Slavik and going down hard in the semi-final. The final between Barry Nobles and Chaney Guennet did not disappoint either, with Barry going down in the penultimate corner, confirming Chaney’s win on home turf.









































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