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Andes Pacifico race report
der offizielle Rennbericht von Tag 1 [english]

Thomas

13. Februar 2014

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Today was the first day of competition of Andes Pacifico. The first thing everyone asked in the morning is how did you slept…. obviously anyone sleep because everybody as anxious. From 7:30 am competitors began with the first link to the Aguila lift La Parva Ski Center at 2800 meters, which led to the sector called Piuquenes that led to Valle Amarillo.

The SS1 began with a fast section and then enter a Singletrack with no grip or #antigrip and then reach a rocky area and more than a few little drops where a few riders had crashes without even realizing it. Then the track ended with a sector of more than 30 “ switchbacks “ that boil the brakes. This gave them a special ahead of what will be coming for the rest of the day . Very loose terrain, dusty and long descent singletracks are mainly traveled by carriers.

# 006 Andes Pacifico Tag 1 – Foto Sven Martin

The SS2 began with a very fluid path which was very open and allowed to go very fast. In this Special our friend Chris Ball, told us that he loved the area and had been enjoying the fluidity of the path and open allowing you to see the immensity of the Andes .

The SS3 is a classic of every enduro or downhill rider in Chile. Today for the second time in the history this single track was used for a competition. We are talking about the famous curve 16 with the curve 14. These two singletrack made a special that last almost 7 minutes which included the infamous uphill on turn 14 . The circuit as always has lots of stones and ditches that lately are larger which made riders sweat.

# 007 Andes Pacifico Tag 1 – Foto Sven Martin

At the end of this special, it ws the food supply area supply was where Santa Cruz and Mountain Works gave mechanical assistance, supplied parts and even accompanied the fruits brought by the organization that had sandwiches , nuts and Red Bull . Then came the longest liason and uphill of all the race. Sven Martin mention that bikes should have a motor to do that type of climbs. 1200 meters of altitude made suffer all competitors.

# 009 Andes Pacifico Tag 1 – Foto

But all this had an award which was the special SS4 Nido de Condores – Santuario that would take the last energy sparks of the riders . Unanimously all riders categorized this SS as the most complex of the day as 1,100 meters of vertical and over 16 minutes left everyone exhausts . The end of the special stage was in the picnic area of the Nature Sanctuary where the river was used to recover the muscles and even take out the dust accumulates on the bikes. The big winner of the day was the World Champion Jerome Clementz who stepped forward to 45:29 minutes to the Chilean National Champion Nico Prudencio which came with 46:23 minutes. Third place went to François Bailly- Maitre that came with 47:27 minutes.

Ergebnisse von Tag 1: http://montenbaik.com/Resultados/