We've just heard that Maribor are bidding to hold a round of the 2019 UCI DH World Cup on the latest iteration of the famous track.
Maribor last held a UCI DH World Cup in 2010 on the highly popular DH race track with its iconic rock garden. At the final World Cup race in Maribor, Greg Minnaar and Rachel Atherton took the win down the course in 3:23 and 4:03 respectively.
The latest race held at Maribor was the final round of the 2018 Unior Downhill Cup that was won by Czech rider Stanislav Sehnal (Kellys Factory Team) and Slovenian Špela Horvat (BeFly World Team) with times pretty close to the 2010's world cup winners - 3:26 (Sehnal) and 4:15 (Horvat).
Speculation is rife about where the 2019 World Cup is heading with hopes that there will be more fresh venues.
Click here to see the provisional dates for next year's DH World Cup.
Can I just say a big NOOOOOO!!!!
WC needs new places, every year. Absolutely NOT the same old venues year after year please.
So please don't "bring back Schladming/Champery/Fort Bill/MSA" or wherever.
That's why riders like Sam Hill left - going to the same places every year is super DULL
Lourdes track was always popular, but that's wasn't a favourite like meribel . But yeah in Lourdes the fact that there a city at the bottom of the track is good for saturday night, and a good old club with a drunk CG is entertaining .. lol
US, Canada, NZ, Australia, South Africa, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Russia, Argentina, Japan, China...you just need a track and maybe a gondola
1-0 to EWS on varying the locations.
When the pros are still crashing and the times have a decent spread to them then it makes for exiting racing and maybe shouldn't be dismissed.
@fatduke As Cairns has proven, you don't need a chairlift to have a successful WC venue.
Hand those guys a new hero 7; I‘m kinda dizzy after watching this clip...
Here the link for all with the same problem:
www.facebook.com/UniorDownhillCup/videos/2133637940297318
Really long and rough track.