Video: Doing Battle at the Fort
With the next round of the World Cup just weeks away, we look back at the epic battle that was round 2 in Fort William. Testing riders determination, mental and physical toughness, Fort William proved to be a challenge to the world’s best. Showing their true colors, both Rachel Atherton and Aaron Gwin fought on through mechanicals and crashes to score valuable points towards their 2018 title ambitions. The grit and determination shown by all of our athletes at Fort William is what sets them apart, and we are proud to have the worlds best riders wearing Bell helmets. We salute all of them with our latest edit, Battle at the Fort.
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It seems like either Gwinn wins or something takes him out. whether it's a mechanical, or an injury or a crash rarely does Gwinn laydown a clean run and lose by a few tenths of a second. It was like when the frenchman Vouilloz was racing, everyone else was racing for second if he was there.
At first I thought, what a shame, he breaks a chain and he has no way of winning now.
Then he is up at the first split....Me and my wife go crazy cheering only to realize how sad it is that he is having a good run but without a chain it's impossible.
Then the third split, HE'S UP AGAIN!!! now we are going super crazy, but I still feel bad that he will try so hard but still lose...
At the fourth split when he was up everyone in the car was going nuts like we were there watching it live.....it was around this point that I actually thought he might be able to pull this one off.
When he crossed the finish line in the green everyone went nuts and I had to pull over on the side of the PA turnpike to celebrate.
That might have been one of the best moments in DH racing history for me. I couldn't believe he did it. That is a great example of never giving up.