Race Report: Mass Start Madness in Spain by nachotruebaphoto

One bike, three disciplines (enduro, downhill, avalanche), and two days of competition. The result; a thrilling weekend full of adrenaline and pure fun at La Pinilla Bikepark.

the fourth edition of the Redbull Holy Bike took place last weekend where more than 600 riders gathered to participate at this two-day event with tough weather conditions akin to winter: mist, clouds, snow, wind and overall freezing cold, this wasn’t a stopper for the participants. Out of competitors, the fastest and most versatile riders of the hill were Ferrán Jorba and Maria Calleja.

Sergio Layos one year again, this time with his Evil Bikes, let himself be seen at the Red Bull "Foggy Bike". Cal creative at Evil was also spending the weekend with his "the calling".

The event started on Saturday morning all wrapped up in a dense fog during training. Afterwards, the descent in pairs proceeded as the first stage of the weekend that took part through the “holy bike” trail with plenty of jumps and berms. Stage-two took place at “La Cresta” trail, the most technical stage of the weekend, where participants had to climb about 500 meters from the top of the chairlift to reach the start of the stage.

Gonzalo Quevedo, one of the most stylish rookies, whipping it at the Saturday's morning fog.

Marcos Lopez, 3rd place on rookies, with this one foot scrub at the practice run on Saturday morning.

"La Cresta" trail delivery a magic sunset light to the competitors to end a great Saturday of racing.

Pasqual Canals, 2nd overall, during the face to face descent in the "holy bike" trail.

Guillem Jorba, 3rd at the overall, down through "La Cresta" trail with an epic sunset view of the Riaza valley.

lightbro at "La Cresta" trail.

Sergio Layos (right) and Manu Prieto (left) down stage three "La Cresta" with some amazing views of "El pico del Lobo".

Unknown rider seen at 1/25 at the "Holy Bike" trail.

Edgar Peyra from Commencal Espand team down "La Cresta".

Drone view of the riders waiting for the chairlift

Drone shot of the riders waiting for the chairlift.

After a great day of riding, Saturday night was enlivened with a delicious BBQ, live music and talks around the fire.

On Sunday morning, the riders went down the stage in order of departure, from the slowest to the fastest, based on the results obtained in the stages of Saturday. The stage was a mix of different trails of the bikepark in which the riders faced with a long pedal section at the middle of the trail.

Eva Castro, 2nd at the female overall, going fast on the enduro stage of Sunday.

Zoe Zamora, the fastest female rookie of the weekend going down across the Sunday enduro stage.

Panshot of Adrian Martinez, rider from the ibicencan crew "Carub Riders".

Victor Ferrero (right) 4th in the overall and Sergio Layos (left) at "CTO. de España" trail on Sunday.

To crown and end the weekend the competition’s wrap up came with the awaited Avalanche. This 4 Km trail was done with the pulse to its maximum level. Packed with touches, elbows, handle backs or wheel touches in the fight to win positions. And thanks to the snow which was still present in the highest area of the bikepark, there were also some falls, one of them by Guillem Jorba (Ferrán’s brother), who still managed to do an amazing downhill, gaining 25 positions and ending up in third place of the competition.