Replay Urban Downhill MTB | Red Bull Valparaíso Cerro Abajo 2019

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íso stops the port stops the routine pauses and the endless stairs are emptied those that are normally used to go up once a year will only be used to go down once a year Valparaíso begins to be seen by the world like this that everyone will witness a new coronation the king of the port seventeen years have passed a drink the King can change with the rain he remains the same very close a race is all or nothing a demonstration of determination a gauntlet from the top to the ocean that will crown a new king a once a year it is said potassium funny hello now everyone is welcome around the world to the

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edition of Red Bull Valparaíso Sarah Down with me today is the only Claudia: hello everyone, my name is Addison's wada and here we go. for you from the land of the foucha coladas narrow streets and infinite colors the basic element of the world heritage of Yunus Seiko from Valparaíso Chile today Claudia we are watching a

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mountain bike race looking for some cyclists to see what we are having good one of They are Gabriel Gabriela Cho Venini who just came off a winning streak and it's his first time here, but let's see if we can continue that winning streak.

I'm very excited to see that we are a little late, we should have introduced the Riders, they will be coming shortly, but look at the crowd, look at that crowd we have in the street, it gets bigger and bigger every year, looking at the final feature in the course here, that's what they call the florist, I think they were telling me before that the winner as he passes, if he has a substantial lead, he might even receive a bouquet of flowers, yes, thank you if you're going to win, that's where You pick your flowers, so what are the expectations? today Claudia, well, as usual in those

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races in South America, a lot of people, well, we can't complain about the weather there, I would say, but the weather seems as perfect as we can see in the port at the moment, this It is the main port for the western side of South America, a huge port and the largest port in Chile.

Oh, you did some research. I tried. You know, I studied. Actually, you know. Buta coladas. These elevators that you see going up and down around the city. I look. I did some research on those. Those are pretty fascinating, so the slopes are the roads, driveways and trails are very steep here, that's why we have the hundreds of thousands of stairs that ran today, but they lifted them looking at our writers to see who we got. there's Gabrielle Chava Nene from Brazil for the first time here and this is actually Johannes Fishbach from Germany, former four cross pro still, but now he switched to super fast

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there and the next one here and then we're looking at Pedro for the theory that's certainly a time to watch for a rider right now in the world of urban downhill mountain biking.

Wow, they're mixing this up for us. Matías Núñez was actually injured and can't practice running today and then the man, the myth, the legend. You can't count them out, two-time winner here, defending champion Tomas Slavik, via the Czech Republic. Let's see what awaits us in Slovakia today, but quickly, let's take a look at where we are headed today. Claudia directs us. through some of the features of this course, well, the graphics will explain it to us. They said there is less pedaling on the track. Here I think it's actually the same track that has had more technical features added, which then makes it less pedalable.

Well, as you can see, there are still a lot of straights, but one of their key features is those stairs that get very narrow towards the end and I wouldn't want to run through those narrow ones because you just have to make sure you don't. You didn't get it right, with the handlebars at the sides, looking at the route before, at the foot of those Boccaccio stairs. It's there if you have full downhill mountain bike bars. I'm talking 800 million or more, maybe there's only an inch between them. each tie bars are incredibly narrow. I would actually consider cutting the handlebars for that section, but you know a lot of the features, as you see here, a lot of jumps, they're pretty big, they look really fun, but in the end.

Not only will the most skilled rider win this one, but also the fittest one because he keeps pedaling, yeah, and the final features of that course, I mean, we have the container that you jump out of the flower shop, but you can. Don't count the bus having an 8 meter gap on that one, probably with the speed it's arriving at, 8 meters isn't much. I hope for the sake of these passengers it sounds like a lot of work looking at the hot seat on the screen you see. comfortable, in fact we have a new addition this year instead of just one in the hot seat, now we have it for the top three riders looking at the start list, we are stuck starting today with the winners outside of New Zealand mark Mauricio Hakuna in the middle from the Chilean Rojas Chile again Beto Nicholas out of the chile and then Jonas Fishbach out of Germany Adrian Laurent Geronimo PES Pedro Fiorina and Thomas Slovak completing the group is the fastest qualifier of the day through the Czech Republic with a 251 that is two seconds ahead Of everyone else, two seconds are allowed on a track like this.

Last year he beat his fastest time and this year he is a little slower, but the course is 200 meters longer, so I have a feeling. that might be coming into play here and you see the strong peddlers are wet and they're up there so good. I wouldn't say it's an easy trick, it will still be very complicated if you want to take advantage of all those technical features at full speed, no, it is. No, and I was reading before that the route is 1.9 kilometers long, it seems longer than that, but that is due to all the stairs and the 237 meters of elevation gain, which is a lot of elevation gain in two kilometers.

I really wonder how they built that city. Another look at our hot seat and what you have to do live there. If you're with us on Red Bull TV, you're in for an action-packed day. Today I'm talking about Valparaíso Red Bull Valparaíso Sarah Below, that's what we're looking at today, if you're at home, they'll be waiting for the information waiting for everything to start. Make sure you jump on and download the app and per channel. Download the Red Bull TV app for free and enjoy. amazing content anywhere, anytime on all those devices looking at all those GoPros cameras, they're all ready for our first winning drivers to come through that container. oh these spectators should watch the race and not just their screens, well there is no race yet but look at that city, although it is absolutely fantastic, the hills of Valparaiso are a beautiful sight, the architecture and the colors you see in this city they are amazing and this is actually the start of the first big event of the

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mountain biking season. and we were talking about it being the start of some sort of downhill season and of course this is urban downhill so It's a little different, but it's actually the start of mountain biking this year.

I mean, we have plenty of all four. cross racers, we have a lot of feet here, we have some of the top level World Cup racers here today, yeah, and you know, in just two weeks we start the Red

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Pumptrack World Championships also in Chile, then a A few weeks later, at Crankworx in New Zealand, I heard rumors that some of these riders may not even leave, they'll just stay in Valparaiso until the pumptrack arrives. Oh really, that's good to know and then remember that it's just a little more than two. Months until we start the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup and don't forget that you can see all that action in both the Pumptrack World Challenge and the UCI World Cup downhill circuit.

Yes, you will be able to see all of that on Red Bull T vs Red. Bull tv.com go there for all the amazing information and the best content about looking up looking at the starting gate right now, we are getting ready, we are just a few minutes of dropping off our first runners of the day and then it's practically hitting the gas and working flat out all afternoon, so the first one out will be the winner of the Masters, maybe he's doing some wheelies somewhere, he's probably filming your next Instagram video, but talk about winning, winning is one of my favorites. because he's always there, we're going to win, he's out the door, here we go, falling, look at him hard on the pedals, he's known for his enduro racing, so you know he's not afraid to match the power he had, although I was.

I didn't let him sin to start strong, he was getting an extra start, it's called tactics and secrets, aha, looking at our course, we have the first flat track turn, we saw a couple of riders fall last year, but no problem to win right now going down through our first feature which will be over Jessica's Yard, but win through New Zealand going up the first stairs at Boccaccio Curve, be prepared that will probably discourage some racers today that I saw in practice and in the playoffs, it's giving some people have trouble but they don't win, no, now look how narrow this gets towards the bottom of these stairs, right here it's getting narrower and narrower, you'll be so close to your hand of those poles with your handlebars every time it just always gets me, but going down through yeah, that's through the shelter, the local shelter, yeah, today we're riding that ride, which is about the only dirt collection seat in the tour today, the rest is all concrete.

I wonder if he was going. you handle it correctly across the full width of a handlebar downhill if you're really going to go through the house, they were telling me it's only a few centimeters on each side, not as narrow as the stairs but not much wider downhill. the fall of the wd-40 you can hear the dogs in the background when the teachers pedal super hard. You can see it not now, but you can see it pedaling super hard. You see that there are so many flat sections that you will already burn halfway through the route. your legs are going to burn here, they were talking about the average grade again, the 45% range, so it's very steep there, but when you want to get on the top step and get into that 250 under 250 range like Thomas Slovak, you have to be on Pedal the whole time, yeah you know the steep sections are only on the stairs, but those streets here, I mean, they're steep, but you'll still pedal as hard as possible, that's what it looks like as we go backwards .

Halfway through you can really see the endurance come into play and that's exactly where downhill racing in the city is so difficult because we're not used to racing on asphalt, we're used to dirt and finding that limit where it is. the grip. On the road, that's where it gets really complicated and that's probably what win masters is struggling with as well. Well, I guess judging by this, come on, yeah, when I get up and do it for the crowd, I guess those tires aren't necessarily designed for pavement racing like these are more all-terrain tires yeah, I am, I think the Better they will choose different tires, they won't be the right ones, they are doing it for the crowd, what a showman, yes, I hope.

The top riders in this race use special tires, not just normal downhill tires, so you think they're actually using a slightly different setup than they would in a traditional downhill scenario. Hi, I'm pretty sure why you need to stiffen the suspension. with all that pedaling it's no use having the suspension completely flexible no roots or rocks on the trailers just ladders so you can have it stiff looking back at the courses check out some of the highlights from the victories you run while you run We were waiting a lot and there are problems for witnesses right there, we don't know if there was some gravel on the road, but if even if there isn't again here, that grip is so hard to touch on the road when you're not so I'm used to it and I I imagine just because of the type of cycling that I do, the grip changes from top to bottom, of course, you will be riding on different types of pavement and asphalt, so it will change throughout the ride.

I imagine that's a given there, but we're going back to the beginning here, we're looking for Mauricio Hakuna via Chile, 31 years old, in the top three. Will we see another great start right here? His time is that his time is already running out. So I'm wondering, well, I have a feeling you can correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I know, it's like the ICU downhill, they have to cross that plane; There's actually a trigger that they cross on the way out of the door and that's what officially begins. his time, well I see a beam of light and they are a laser, which is probably what will interrupt his time, but we haven't seen the writer walk out the door yet, well once we see that door, they are open.

I have a feeling it's a game to watch Wynn in the leader's seat, that's the hot seat so far, taking the fastest time of the day, he's our first writer, I don't know if he'll stick though, let's see if we can make it. a look at what his time actually is, with twoafternoon was absolutely packed. The red line went to 11 from start to finish. Lots of action towards the end, not the action we expected, but. I'm sure the crowd will love a local winner. Oh, I mean, he's already won in Mexico and Colombia this year, so to do well, like I was saying, to take this win so close to home, all of that has to be just incredible from a rider.

From your point of view, what does that feel like? Well, you know that winning is always good, but winning at home is even better, but you know that with him winning so many races in a row now, his confidence must go up and up, his confidence is going up and right now he seems like the right man in the world of racing. urban descent. Well, we're wrapping things up here in Valparaíso, Chile, looking at our crowd. I want to thank you for coming and supporting us and all of you here at Red Bull TV. watching the action watching what we're happening live so talking about Red Pool live, I mean we have a lot of interesting events coming up.

Crankworx will be very soon in Rotorua in just a couple of weeks and then you've got a couple of things happening with UCI downhill, yeah obviously the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup is starting at the end of April. There we have to concentrate on his race again, although Fishbach, up on the hill, let's see what it took to slide. in that third place, that means we actually have the top three in small single crown bikes, which clearly shows that on this track at least maybe not overall in urban downhill racing, but on this track the small bikes They are faster and Felipe are good, so the young winger of the group is good enough for second place today, he is only 18 years old and rides extremely intelligently with his own strategy, with a dropper post, able to pedal sitting and that put him in second place, it was difficult. to beat the others so strong to beat so strong to beat that only one man could do it and that man is none other than a gentleman right here a jumper Riera with the race of the day the best time of the day beat the qualifying time, everyone the others on the course and kept his run up and down smooth as butter and looking fast all day to the finish line with that 250 almost flat point zero eight four, but we'll call it 54º flat, well, thanks for sticking with we.

Here on Red Bull TV all day for the source of Red Bull Valparaíso looking at our final results classification Benton Pedro Philippe Johannes Oscar Remy Ma Tei completing the top five German and Swedish chili chili followed closely by the French, it is a mix of a international field here in Valparaíso and we are happy that this will happen for many more years, but for this 17th edition of Red Bull

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íso cero Downstairs Claudio I want to thank you very much for coming and hanging out with me today and giving me all your incredible insight and knowledge thank you and you know what the start of the season was let's move on we have a lot of action throughout the year from motorcycles to world rallycross and the streets of Red Bull game we have everything and it's going to be here on Red Bull TV.

My name is Addison Sawada. Cláudio is great or you will be with me all day for Red Bull Valparaiso. See you next time.