CUBE Factory Racing | Downhill World Cup Round 5 – La Thuile | All Access

It's quality day, baby. Is he feeling confident? I think so. He watched a bit of GoPro footage last night. Realised he's pulling this lever too much. Because it was on camera. Is the track hard on the bike or is it pretty tame? Nah, it's pretty tame. He hasn't gone through anything. Even with his crash. Oh, really? Just went through a brake lever from it hitting the ground. Otherwise, no problemo, Jack. That's it? I wonder what the average rotor-to-run time is. How many runs is everyone getting per rotor? And how many rotors in this paddock have been put in the bin? How many rotors have Shimano had to exchange this week? A lot. Do you have anything that you do every morning? Like, to double-check anything or smush the brakes? Just double-check everything. I did it all yesterday, so... I can't second-guess myself. I did it right yesterday, it's still right today. What are you doing right now? Shop bush, because you haven't got out of the van. I noticed that the shop bush needed doing. Uh-oh. Do it right, do it right once. Do it once, check twice. Would you go just for Casper for the section after? Or do you want to go there for Max as well? Like, after the bridge up the... Yeah, to be fair, I'm lower down, aren't I? Yeah, but from you, it's just like... Yeah, so if I go a bit further down and stay there for Casper... So maybe, do you want to go up and check? I think maybe we need to sweep the whole track, don't we, really? Or you want the person that's highest to go up to the top, because they're already closest to the top, rather than the lowest person. At the bottom, it's easy to catch the gondola and just go down. Oh, is it? Rather than pedal up? I was going to say, because that... Yeah, queue, yeah. You're probably better pedalling up to there, I think. So whoever's the highest should go up. He has the rear further right. Because he's BMXing. Yeah, what is your reason in having your levers different? This finger's longer than that one, because he's from Finland, and they have different length fingers in Finland. Do you actually have a reason? No. I think the BMXing kind of makes sense. Yeah. You just have a rear brake, don't you, so... It's just a bit far up further right. Well, that's good enough for the moment. They feel pretty good, don't they? Yeah. They feel pretty good. All right. What are we doing? Just taking Casper a bottle of water with his GoPro. Tight time frame. Yeah. Apparently the queue's big. Oh, so he's not coming back to the pit? No. Which isn't ideal, because I didn't want him to put two runs on those rotors, because he keeps cooking them, but... What can you do? That first inside's all right, is it? Yeah. Because you said it might be slippy, but they've raked it out and it's pretty good. Yeah, it's fine, because they've like a rut there pretty much already. It's a rut ripped up, man. How's the track faring? I'd say it's staying up pretty good now. Is it? Yeah, like, it hasn't changed much from track walk yesterday. That's good. So... Because, like, the hard ground has come out. Yeah. Now, so it's... Good. We shall see. As long as he qualifies, who f***ing cares? See you at the bottom. All right, Sam, see you in a bit. F***ing hell. Race day, baby! He looks like a little naughty school kid getting told off. What's he debating? Whether to do two or three runs. He said that to me, so I said, go and ask your boss. So he's gone to ask Matt, and Matt's said three. At least then, if you did three, you can chill in the first one and just get warmed up. Yeah. You can do the first one, bed the tyres and the brakes and the wheelsetting. Yeah. And I can change them. And he can do two runs on those f***ing wheels. Well, not f***ing, but... Yeah. I can take... I can take the wheels, so they can do one run. Yeah. One steady first run on those wheels. Yeah. Bed his tyres and bed his brakes in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Legset his wheels off. Yeah. Put his practice ones back on. Yeah. And those ones are good to go. Yeah. Hydration! I did have to get that as well. I have to do everything around here. Well done. Where are we off to, pal? Bottom of the track. Fine. Just to swap Kasper's wheels after his first run, so we can get three runs in. We're quite far away from the finish, so... What's the crack with changing wheels this morning? It's just because he's got a fresh set of tyres, a fresh set of pads, a fresh set of rotors, all on his wheels he's got. Yeah. So it's just to run them in for a run. And then there are the race wheels then, so... But he's got on now. Yeah. There are his race wheels, so he'll do one run, just bed the tyres in, bed the pads in, bed the rotors in, and then they'll be good to go for his race run. All good? Yeah. Bike all right? Yeah, really good. It's a bit better. It just felt more... It's better? Everywhere. Yeah. Did you change any lines from last night? Not really, like, just got confirmation of a few. That was a bit unsure of, but... Good, good, good. Stay here with your water, son. Dinner late. The arm pump is gnarly, though. Oh, is that the gap? It's ******* rock solid. What's it like, that gap? It's way easier than the lower line, isn't it? Yeah. Is it just real blind? No, it's as blind as the other one. All good? Yeah. Any issues? Any problems at all? No. Just do it again. Just do what you did. Again. Just the arm pump, but... We'll just dog it. Let's go dog it. It's only three more minutes. Yeah. It's only a race. Rain goggles, just in case. Jersey. Bands. Balls. Tool box. Jay, bars. Bars wonky. Bars are wonky. Go get it, boys. Can you imagine me giving up with all this on my back like a turtle anyway? It's good for you. Good for me? Yeah. It's free. This back ain't going to repair anymore. It's done. I'm riding, having fun, and I'll be at home working my ass off. To provide for my family. I've worked so hard for. Cheers, mate. All the best. Bye. Jersey's crushed up. Come on. You said 35, you're 32. Well done, mate. 32. My hands were completely fresh at the bottom. Relaxed, didn't you? Relaxed, eh? 32. You're top notch. That was very good. Not even the result doesn't matter. Just have to go down like a good run. You look really good coming down. First time this year. After the injury, where I'm actually happy with the run. No, it's sick. There's men to watch you ride as well. Thanks, man. We're going to get it. It's a first win. First P1. It's a bit overwhelming, to be honest, yeah? No, it's not. It won't be in a minute. Don't quite know how to feel about it. Everyone keeps going, oh, stop being so modest. I'm like, well, I didn't do it, did I? He's the operator. I just made the bike go downhill. Double hand now. Mate. I didn't have anything to say. How was it then? How did your run go? Good. From the start? Well, yeah, like, I felt real good in the start, yet like calm, and then just kept going the whole run. And then, one little mistake, but I mean. Where was that? Just quite near the bottom. Yeah. Happens, though. Yeah. You have a good run up and stuff. Yeah. It helps, doesn't it? I had a plan and then I stuck to it. Yeah. And there wasn't 10 million delays today, so. Yeah, that makes a big difference as well, doesn't it? I mean. Yeah. Double hand now.