FMD Racing has posted on their Instagram that Kaos Seagrave will not be racing the World Cup in Maribor. After his injuries last year and an admin error he was not able to gather enough UCI points to compete in the first round of the 2019 season. The team is hoping to have him compete in Fort William at the beginning of June.
Riders need to accrue 40 UCI points or be selected by their national federation to enter a World Cup. Kaos currently sits on 31 points.
| Due to his injuries last season and an admin error from the team Kaos Seagrave does not have enough points to race Maribor World Cup.
Lady luck is not on this talented young lad's shoulders right now... Fingers crossed for the next few weeks and British Cycling will help for Fort William!—FMD Racing |
We hope to see Kaos bringing his unique style and whips to Fort William in June, although reading between the lines, it seems a British Cycling selection will be needed to get him in the race. British Cycling can select up to three riders to race at each World Cup but they must wear team GB colours. There are currently four British riders with more points and a higher UCI ranking than Kaos who do not have enough points for World Cup qualification - Lachlan Blair, Jono Jones, Sam Dale and Kenta Gallagher.
Now I have nothing against raising the bar and points needed for World Cup racing IF and this is a big IF there is a clear path regionally, nationally and Continentally of races and series’ offering Hors Classe, class one and class two points, that way there will still be opportunity for new riders to enter the talent pool each year. Ironically the UCI now does offer World Cup DH qualifying points to selected sanctioned snow bike races and enduro events ?!?!?! Which makes no sense as they are completely different disciplines in my eyes. World Cups will continue to see reduced fields (which is what UCI and Red Bull want) but in time this will be detrimental to the future lifeblood of the sport while disciplines like Enduro will continue to grow.
I can't speak for your local area but Enduro racing is off the charts big here. Every two weeks some where on the west coast there is an Enduro race going down. It's by far the most popular style of mountain bike racing currently in going on the west coast of North America.... Shit maybe even all of North America ...
As for coverage goes, The EWS is slowly moving in the direction of how WRC is shown on Red bull TV. None of it is live but a couple days after the event a shit ton of film coverage is edited and then narrated on top of to bring you a story of how the race went down with as many highlights put in to keep things interesting.
This really helps keep coverage costs down and you don't have to give up an entire day spent on your couch watching The.V
Regardless, things need to be set out differently than they are to be able to offer a better economic model to grow the sport in all disciplines.
Yeah I don’t think the EWS highlight videos are anywhere near good enough. There’s very little actual racing and a whole load of filler and slow mo. It’s rare I’ll actually watch one all the way through.
If you want to ride downhill fast, a DH bike is always going to be faster, and you don't need much of the tech that's in an 'enduro' bike. It wouldn't surprise me if there is a resurgence of DH in the UK. Not so much around here.
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"Wouldn't it be great if as long as you were fast enough to qualify you wouldn't have to worry about some big governing body that doesn't even have the best interest for this particular niche of cycling"
And now you saying the should have a National UCI qualifying series. I never said the current system was a good one. I don't really know. My only point was that there is probably a very good reason that some kind of qualifying is necessary, which you seem to agree with.
If you don't like watching the women race -> dont watch it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
and IMO Rachel, Tahnee & PomPom have a kickass riding style
Kaos was in his first year Elite last year, in his first Elite World Cup he came 36th. He ranked higher than Finn Iles and Matt Walker. He then punctured at the next round in fort William in qualifications. Unfortunately, while also showing his talent and competing the full crankworx series, he broke his collarbone, with complications that put him out for a whole year. Not only has he proved himself as a stylish rider but to say he doesn’t have the speed is obviously someone who doesn’t watch the riders first hand, week in week out.
There was a miscalculation of points, and as we are no longer a UCI team as if this year, your point score must be higher. Once realised FMD applied for a jersey but they had already gone.
Sucks got to sit out the race.
www.uci.org/inside-uci/constitutions-regulations/regulations
You will want to read Part IV: Mountain Bike > Chapter XIII: UCI Elite MTB Teams
www.uci.org/docs/default-source/rules-and-regulations/4mtb-e-1.01.2019---final---ok-publication.pdf?sfvrsn=9954e8cc_16
You can apply to your National Federation for consideration and wear their jersey as they can take three spots in both men and women. Think of it as a 'Wild Card'.
In the UK we have a round of the WC at Fort William, as the host nation we are allocated 8 jerseys (spots) for Wild Cards in both men and women.
Page 80 is the points table.
www.uci.org/docs/default-source/rules-and-regulations/4mtb-e-1.01.2019---final---ok-publication.pdf?sfvrsn=9954e8cc_16
I hope that helps!
He’s quite clear it was just a cock up, he had points, got injured, points expired. Not the end of the world, Kaos is young and he’s got plenty of time to make up for this.
Hang in there Kaos were all routing for you, go chase those points and Hope British Cycling come through!
Good luck!
Dont follow your sister to much! RACE RACE RACE and get points!