Sorry Devon, I’m genuinely not trying to piss on your chips here, but you are wrong regarding the NZE / TP timed racing comparison. In fact, it would appear that the amount of timed racing per day in both races is pretty similar. NZE was a 3-day race, and the total pro men’s winning time 01:02:16 …. Take for example the first 3-days of TP 2014 and the winner clocked 01:16:52 … so not a huge difference. Add to that the fact that NZE only had 8 timed stages (compared to TP’s 12 in 3 days) and it looks like...
Personally I don't agree with you Devon, but I guess it depends on what you believe enduro racing is for (especially this type of enduro racing). Ash Trans-Provence
A good read although I'm not sure Martin answered the question about Enduro racing particularly well. Enduro racing *IS* against the clock, and people are looking at televising it properly in the next couple of years.
dirt_drifter: yes it's real, no it's not a PR exercise... 56 riders indeed, the camps are extremely limited in size because this is the backend of Alpine France we're talking about. No football fields to use. As for being "selected", who told you that?! Trans-Provence is first-come-first-serve. Would love to grow, *might* work out a way of going up to 70.