Race Analysis from the Loudenvielle DH World Cup 2023

The Loudenvielle round may have rivalled the previous week in Andorra for drama on and off the track but come finals the riders delivered some of the best racing action so far this year. As the teams pack up the pits and start heading to another round in France we have collected the stats and dived deep into the numbers from round five of the 2023 series.

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Race Results

Full results, here.

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Sector by Sector Results

Overall Split Positions

Split Rankings

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Sector Breakdown

Sector 1

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The first sector across the wide open turns at the top of the course produced wildly different results across the men's and women's categories. For the women, it was Vali Höll who set the fastest time with Nina Hoffmann falling almost 0.5 seconds off the pace. Tahnee Seagrave would be around 1.4 seconds back. In the men's racing Dylan Levesque would edge out Kade Edwards by a tiny margin of 0.01 seconds to lead the sector with a decent margin of 0.28 seconds then back to third-placed Simon Chapelet. Race-winner Loic Bruni sits around 0.6 seconds back from the sector winner here.

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Sector 2

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The second split saw new faces on top as Nina Hoffmann pulled an almost one-second gap on Tahnee Seagrave with Vali Höll 1.02 seconds off the sector winner's speed. Race winner Loic Bruni would gain some ground here as he led out 2nd-place finisher Dakotah Norton by 0.17 seconds. Thibaut Daprela was 0.44 short of Bruni's time here.

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Sector 3

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Vali Höll returned to the top for the tricky third split as she stormed through this part of the track with a 1.41-second advantage over Nina Hoffmann. Marine Cabirou would lose 3.11 seconds in just this one split. An absolute domination by Vali Höll. The Men's racing would be much tighter as Danny Hart proved once again he is great when it is steep and loose taking the sector win by 0.2 seconds against Benoit Coulanges. Thibaut Daprela was once again right on pace as he fell just 0.02 back from Benoit Coulanges.

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Sector 4

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The fourth split saw Marine Cabirou secure the first of two top times as she pulled ahead of the race winner by 0.05 seconds. 2nd-place finisher Nina Hoffmann lost more time here setting the seventh fastest time and dropping over a second behind Marine Cabirou. Jackson Goldstone joined Marine with a resurgence in speed at the bottom of the course. Jackson went fastest in this sector finding 0.3 seconds against his teammate Laurie Greenland.

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Sector 5

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The final split once again saw Marine Cabirou set the fastest time with Vali Höll dropping back by just over 0.7 seconds against the French racer on home soil. It was another bad split for Nina Hoffmann as she was in seventh again, over one and a half seconds off the top pace through here. Just like Marine Jackson Goldstone was fastest in the final split as well but this time he bested Bernard Kerr by 0.26 seconds in the race to the line. Loic Bruni set the third best time here but it was still 0.76 seconds back.

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Story of the Race

Elite Women

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Elite Men

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The Perfect Run

Elite Women
The Perfect Run: 3:58.730 (1.863 seconds faster than the race winner)

// Vali Höll: 43.851 // Nina Hoffmann: 1:07.417 // Vali Höll: 1:10.907 // Marine Cabirou: 32.846 // Marine Cabirou: 23.709 //

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Elite Men
The Perfect Run: 3:28.289 (3.496 seconds faster than the race winner)

// Dylan Levesque: 39.535 // Loic Bruni: 59.574 // Danny Hart: 1:01.633 // Jackson Goldstone: 27.256 // Jackson Goldstone: 20.291 //

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Stats Breakdown

You can use the drop-down menu to view each rider's times.

You can use the drop-down menu to view each rider's times.

The 10 Elite Women's race runs were plotted.

The top 15 race runs were plotted before including results at positions 20, 30 and 31

You can hover over the graph to reveal the lap improvement times.

You can hover over the graph to reveal the lap improvement times.

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Overall Standings

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