First European downhill cup of the year. Track was exactly the same as last year and still rocky as hell. Conditions were super wild- sun, rain, sun, some more rain and so on. That made things extra difficult this weekend. In training I felt super strong, fast and comfortable. Couldn’t wait to race already.
My qualification run was kinda messy, a lot of small mistakes and I definitely could push myself more than that. In qualifying I finished P9 +7.09 second to first place. 0.629 seconds separated me from the top5 and 2.27 seconds from top3.
During the last training runs before finals the feeling just got better and better with every run and I felt so good. I had a few crashes, hurted my leg a little bit but I tried not to make it out. I was literally on fire, but then In my last training run I got a flat tire and destroyed my last rear wheel. Tried to fix it straight away after training, but there is not much free time between training and the race run. I messed up my final start time and missed the start. I don’t know how it happened, but I can only blame myself for that and I am very disappointed in myself that such a thing happened at all.
I have to learn from my own mistakes and hopefully it will NEVER happen again. Let’s hope for better luck next time!
