With 14.5 kilometers of terrain starting at 3540 MSL and finishing at 1306 MSL, and with a vertical drop of 2234 meters, this is a real deal race that takes place in La Parva, Chile. For the very first time the standing fastest downhill time was disputed. Pedro Ferrira won this race with a time of 23 minutes and 34 seconds and confirmed that he is currently the best Chilean out there.
I amazed that dude was able to follow the whole course down, especially considering there were multiple turns or splits where you could've gone any number of ways, and it wasn't marked. It'd take me two weeks of riding that course to remember all the correct lines.
Normally superD used to be too xc friendly... Just look at the overallt time, this is like and enduro mixing together 4 specials amd you have around 20min dh
Haha two words for you.... MEGA AVALANCHE! It's longer and harder! Haha
It's ONLY a 45 minute race and these guys are complaining about 20 minutes. Haha
@FaastEddie actually is in the Andes and yeah you can do it on a 29er, if you want to eat sh&t all the way down. It's actually very steep and technical with sharp little rocks all over, you can't appreciate the actual course on the videos...... just saying. (and yes i've ridden on this track). No argue that Mega Avalanche is way more difficult. Cheers
But He cheated at Min. 3:44 cut a Whole Section out that he Blew a Berm and just went over it and at 12:30cut one section out looked on perpuse , 16:45 a small shortcut but looked confussing not marked split like a lot of previous sections before.min 15-to Finish was Nice step of camber , rocky switchbacks on the exposed ridge was the best Part of the track. some of it looked confussing so many splits on the course and Not marked maybe some upside Down paint cans to actually keeping some ridder from CUTTING CORNERS would of been a nice touch maybe a STRAVA type GPS to make sure guys where on the right line .Other than putting my on that Great Natural Track wouldn't mind running that for the hell of it if i lived out there
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of Super D racing being you can ride whatever line you want as long as you go through all the pre-marked gates?
not sure never got into racing any type of race Only DH so not aware if that's correct, if so then i stand corrected on my comment about cutting Corners but he did Blow a section not marked on 3:44 is that legal without lost of time or penalty cuz it looked like he took a huge chunk out the course and back in ? so if that's legal what isn't i got to look this on the UCI site cuz seems you can make your own track as long as you get to the check points which is so whack in a way cuz if you dont know the shortest split on a line that may have like 3 splits u just lost all kind of time by taking a wrong turn
I heard this will become a chainless event next year??
I think from 17.50 onwards would be a great WC track, I do wonder how many people get lost with no bunting or markers, it seems like a make your own adventure.
Agreed, was there for 3 weeks in august, cool to see it in a different way though, would've been awesome to see it through the village with the crazy dogs and all!
very poor season last year was (inner yoda speaking hahaha) didn't really snow at all in Santiago. These year it's suppose to be a good one according to the experts, because of "el niño" draft (different from "la niña") it's expected to snow a lot....
It does suck that the Oregon Super D changed to the Oregon Enduro series however, but I guess they had to follow "The Spirit of Enduro" eh?
This race however seems like a Mega! I'd like to do it. I'll drop dead at the end, but it would be a blast.
It's like Mega Avalanche in the desert. That race is even longer and pretty sure much more difficulty. They could have done that corse on a 29er
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I think from 17.50 onwards would be a great WC track,
I do wonder how many people get lost with no bunting or markers, it seems like a make your own adventure.
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