SCOTT11 DH World Cup Fort William

Huge crowds of spectators, a long and rough race track, an incredible atmosphere and athletes pumped to the max: This is what the world cup in Fort William has to offer. The racers seemed to push the limits even harder with the crowds cheering for each one of them. In fact, they were all riding at the edge of loosing control, and this is why almost none of them made it down the mountain without any major mistakes and spectacular saves.

One man who was in the middle of them all was Fabien Pedemanaud, who is on his way back to speed after a rather slow start of the season. A full attack in the rough part of the track as well as an impressive effort on the flat pedaling section at the end brought Fabien to the 18th place.

Unfortunately for Nick Beer, his split time showed up 33 seconds late in the qualifiers and Nick rolled into the finish area with a quite dirty shirt.First thing he asked for was ice for his wrist, second thing was a ride to the hospital. The local hospital was not able to see what's wrong with Nick's wrist, so we have see another doctor in Switzerland or Austria next week.

The women kept it a bit more in control, still going hard, and Floriane Pugin managed to get herself onto 3rd position. Emilie Siegenthaler rode consistent and finished the race on 10th place.

SCOTT11 is now driving the truck back through the scottish highlands, catching the ferry to Amsterdam, and then driving straight to the next world cup in Leogang, Austria, where Nick Beer will let the doctors have another look at his wrist and hopefully be able to compete again on the weekend.

Florian Pugin in her race run

Nike Beer on the not so hot seat with an injured hand.

Floriane third in Fort William

Fabien ripping his way to the hot seat More of Sven Martin's photos on www.scott11racing.com as well as a camera run with Floriane and Emilie.
We'll certainly inform you of the date of the report on StarTV about the SCOTT11 Scotland road trip.