Tuesday, March 8, 2011

How To Write A Tombstone

Winner Sunshinecup 2001



Photos: Coastal Bridge, Maasewerd

The last race of the Sunshine Cup was played in Amathous. The lap was 5.6 km long and was not 175 meters, while the data for that bad, but the ground was so rocky that it was too brutal even go with a full suspension. At 12 clock it went to a first lap and 5 laps, I was right at the start of the race take the lead and keep the tempo high, just before the first climb I overtook Thomas Litscher (SUI), which through a plate in the first downhill and fell flat in the next passage of the subsequent winner Henk Jaap Moorlag (NED). This rate, I could not follow and I tried to secure the podium, which was not so easy. Because from the second round got stuck in my fork, the lockout and I had only one rear suspension, which in this extremely rough course was not easy. But I could keep the pace and finished in third place at the end of another podium place.

So I could win the overall title of the Sunshine Cup and earn 250 ranking points. Better not be, a season opener!

0 comments:

Post a Comment