Take a deep breath… the finals are upon us. Some titles remain up for grabs, champions-elect are yet to be crowned, but for the rest of the pros, it’s their last opportunity to claim a scalp or two before the UCI World Championships. They're officially calling last orders in the Last Chance Saloon and the stage is perfectly set for a classic!
La Bresse seems to have a propensity for producing dramatic racing and historically significant results. In 2011, Aaron Gwin locked up the first of his back-to-back titles here with a third place. It sealed him the title for Trek Factory Racing with a round to spare. It was the first time an American had won the overall crown.
The race was won by none other than Greg Minnaar who beat Gee Atherton home for said victory. As far back as seven years ago it was the South African’s 52nd career podium and, almost unbelievably, his first premier class win in France.
In the women’s DH race, Tracy Moseley stampeded home 4.9secs ahead of Floriane Pugin to put the Martin Whiteley-run Trek operation on it’s way to a clean sweep of the top honours. Of those women from that results sheet who are still racing, Rachel Atherton is the highest placed having captured a fourth.
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Whipping like they’re doing (or scrubbing), allows them to stay lower over the jump. So they can go faster over it without totally overshooting the landing.
1. preload your suspension into the face of the jump and go nice and high with lots of air time over the jump. This the the slow way
2 the other way is to SCRUB the jump. in this fashion, you absorb the jump into the jump so you can stay low as possible and maintaining speed over the jump. 2a. another way to scrub a jump is what @chrisk71 said above. this is called a "bubba scrub" names after Bubba Watson MX racer. This is THE FASTEST way to go over a jump as it keeps you low and fast over the jump.
The reason they are scrubbing these jumps are because they want to maintain as much speed as possible without over shooting the transition landing and also because the first jump spits them out with way too much speed for these jumps and they would end up landing flat.
When done properly it looks super cool, when done not so good, it looks just like a simple whip.
Haha I can imagine the face of Gwin's 27 devoted fans :'[