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The final round of the 2025/26 Red Bull Cerro Abajo World Series will see 39 elite urban DH riders race a 1.2km urban downhill course through Stuttgart, where the overall series champion will be decided. Red Bull Stuttgart Cerro Abajo will make its debut as the fourth and final round of the 2025/26 Red Bull Cerro Abajo World Series, bringing championship-deciding urban downhill racing to Germany for the first time.
The riders will take on a course built through Stuttgart’s steep hillside streets, Stäffele stairways, cobbled alleys, parks and tight urban corridors. Only 15 riders will advance to the final, where individual runs of around one minute and 40 seconds - and speeds expected to exceed 60km/h - will decide the event winner and the overall series champion.
Red Bull Cerro Abajo 2025/2026 Series Standings After Three Rounds
- Roger Vieira (BRA) 149 points
- Sebastian Holguín (COL) 95 points
- Johannes Fischbach (GER) 85 points
- Adrien Loron (FRA) 83 points
- Felipe Agurto (CHI) 45
Here is all you need to know:
- Red Bull Stuttgart Cerro Abajo is the first-ever edition of the event and the first time the Red Bull Cerro Abajo World Series has visited Germany. Stuttgart is only the second European city to host a Red Bull Cerro Abajo race, following the series’ European debut in Genova in 2024. As round four of four, Stuttgart is the championship-deciding stop of the 2025/26 season.
- The Stuttgart course runs approximately 1.2km and drops 130 vertical meters from the Tee House in Weißenburgpark to Wilhelmsplatz in the city center. It makes full use of Stuttgart’s natural hillside terrain and dense urban layout, creating a descent that is unique within the series. Winning times are expected to be around 1:40, with riders forecast to reach speeds of more than 60km/h.
- Stuttgart’s iconic Stäffele stairways form the backbone of the course. Riders will link steep staircases, cobblestones, narrow corridors, tight turns, parks, monuments and city streets in one continuous downhill run. Purpose-built drops and jumps have been added throughout, demanding speed, precision, confidence and sharp line choice from top to bottom.
- The course includes 12 key obstacles, beginning with the Deck Drop Gate straight out of the start. The twisted flat drop has a 3.5m-wide take-off, a 3m drop height and a 5m landing, immediately forcing riders to settle into the run. The Pond Gap follows with a 6m gap jump, where coming up short means dropping into the water.
- The Tea House provides a rhythm section made up of multiple drops, where riders will need to maintain flow and carry speed. Royal Corner follows as one of the course’s major momentum killers, with a mistake through the turn likely to cost valuable seconds. The Stair Zig-Zag then sends riders into a steep and technical section of Stuttgart’s signature stair terrain.
- Bridge Drop is one of the course’s most intimidating features: a twisted bridge drop with a 5m vertical descent and a 5m gap. Riders then hit the Road Gap, a 6m step-down jump off the Hühnerleiter staircase section that rewards speed and full commitment. Both features will test the ability to stay composed when the course is moving fast.
- The lower half of the course combines technical turns, large drops and high-speed jumps. Park Chicanes demand aggressive leaning and exact line choice through a sequence of tight corners, while the Stäffele Drop offers two take-off options over a 12m gap with a 3m landing height. The Jeep Compass Gap adds an 11m blind jump that launches riders directly into another staircase section.
- Bosch Booster is the course’s biggest airtime feature, sending riders across a 16m gap. The final major obstacle, Hop On Hop Off, blends technical jumping with a full-sprint approach as riders charge toward the finish. By that point, riders will have to combine control, stamina and precision after more than a kilometer of high-speed urban descending.
Watch the Red Bull Stuttgart Cerro Abajo finals live on Red Bull TV and Red Bull Bike YouTube on Sunday 6th of September starting at 14.50 CEST / 5h50am PST.
RIDER LIST
- Lukas Knopf 🇩🇪
- Josh Lowe 🇬🇧
- Erik Irmisch 🇩🇪
- Alex Storr 🇳🇿
- Christian Textor 🇩🇪
- Tommaso Francardo 🇮🇹
- Tristan Botteram 🇳🇱
- Alex Rudeau 🇫🇷
- Marius Perraudin 🇨🇭
- Moritz Silberhorn 🇩🇪
- Socratis Zotos 🇬🇷
- Levin Klausmann 🇩🇪
- Felipe Benavides Venegas 🇨🇱
- Gaetan Vige 🇫🇷
- Simon Maurer 🇩🇪
- Phil Atwill 🇬🇧
- Camilo Sanchez 🇨🇴
- Juanfer Velez 🇨🇴
- Julian Steiner 🇩🇪
- Marco Lamaris 🇩🇪
- Sam Blenkinsop 🇳🇿
- Jeronimo Paez 🇦🇷
- Pedro Ferreira 🇨🇱
- Daniel Castellanos 🇪🇸
- Harry Molloy 🇬🇧
- Bernard Kerr 🇬🇧
- Douglas Vieira 🇧🇷
- Lucas Borba 🇧🇷
- Gonzalo Gajdosech 🇦🇷
- Tomas Slavik 🇨🇿
- Pedro Burns 🇨🇱
- Tuhoto-Ariki Pene 🇳🇿
- Gabriel Giovannini 🇧🇷
- Alex Marin 🇪🇸
- Felipe Agurto 🇨🇱
- Adrien Loron 🇫🇷
- Johannes Fischbach 🇩🇪
- Sebastian Holguin 🇨🇴
- Roger Vieira 🇧🇷
KEY TRACK OBSTACLES
- Deck Drop Gate: A technical twisted flat drop that immediately tests rider control straight out of the start gate. 3.5m take-off width, 3m drop height, 5m landing
- Pond Gap: A demanding gap jump where riders risk ending up in the water if they come up short. 3m take-off, 6m gap, 2m landing
- Tea House: A rhythm section featuring multiple drops where maintaining flow and momentum is critical
- Royal Corner: A major momentum killer and one of the most important turns on the course. This is where mistakes will be punished and time gaps can open up
- Stair Zig-Zag: A steep and technical staircase section that demands precision and commitment through Stuttgart's famous Stäffele terrain
- Bridge Drop: A massive twisted bridge drop and one of the most intimidating obstacles on the entire track. 5m drop height with a 5m gap
- Road Gap: A step-down jump off the "Hühnerleiter" staircase section that rewards confidence and speed. 6m gap
- Park Chicanes: A sequence of tight corners where aggressive leaning and precise line choice are essential to maintain speed
- Stäffele Drop: One of the signature features of the course. A huge drop built into Stuttgart's iconic stair network with two possible take-off options. 12m gap and 3m landing height
- Jeep Compass Gap: A blind jump launching riders directly into a staircase section. Commitment and confidence are key. 11m gap
- Bosch Booster: The biggest airtime feature on the course and one of the most spectacular jumps for spectators. 16m gap
- Hop On Hop Off: The final major obstacle before the finish, combining technical jumping skills with an all-out sprint mindset
Join Gary as he works his way down the course, unlocking the features one by one - looks so rad!
Onboard with Sam Blenkinsop during today's training, a good look at the track from top to bottom. Incredible crowds out already for practice!
To the best of our knowledge, no woman has ever completed a Cerro Abajo full pull, looks like Nina Hoffmann is about to change that!
Didn't Veronika Widmann did a full run in Genova?
She did. 6 women at this one. If 5 do full runs they will have their own category
Thanks for clearing that up, I did not have that info (there’s not an abundance of clear media communications around these events, let’s just say…)
They put plywood over the hand rails! Easy mode ;p also those blue berm/ramp things look like the most sane corners they have ever made as well.
Live broadcast coming up in a couple of hours (14h50 CET, 5h50am PST) - social media is saying we're going to have the women race for the first time today!
And we had a women's race for the first time. Awesome!
So, hopefully, they get a women's category set up for all races next year.
Sounds like that is the plan.
Made it 1.5 runs. The track is about as rowdy as I’d expect from one in Germany. That’s a no from me, dog.
I appear to still be in the minority for liking these races, which always seems like a bit of a surprise. Maybe some other people just weren’t around for the jib/NWD videos, which whet my interest as a kid for the concrete. Regardless, the crowds at this race were wild. Watching the Wyn interviews he had after the race, it seemed that the race got the gears in a lot of people’s heads turning. Riders were impressed by the crowds and excitement they brought and saw them as a potential tool for generating further interest in downhilling and mountain biking as a whole for that matter.
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