Ok Sports Fans, here's your first looks at the Worlds Course.
BUT...Before I get into any course description... let me just pause for one second and make a tiny comment about making course judgement calls, based on uTube helmet camera videos. Based on all the courses I've raced to date... the uTube helmet videos in no way came close to giving a accurate "feel" of what the course is really like when you actually take a bike and ride it. THANKFULLY the same holds true for this course.
As you will see in these pictures, the course is cut into 2 pieces... a fast, bumpy, turny section that will rattle the fillings out of your face that then transitions through sand into a tricky off camber section with steep rolling pitches, that will make your quads scream for mercy by the beginning of the second lap. Depending on the conditions... if the lines are greasy, many of the steep pitches and off cambers will have to be run and that will also take its toll on the racers...
So far, I like the course.
If you are wondering why the picture of the police car??? We stopped to ask directions to the race course.. and the officer was so nice, he actually gave us a police escort. NO JOKE!
Ok, we'll actually ride the course tomorrow and I'll have more for you then.
Until later,
Kath
