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Cool/weird to see him on the exact same time as Assa right down to the 0.001 of a second!

rude and vergier finished on the same thousandth in q1!

It makes perfect sense to me that the true fastest and best riders will rise to the top in horrible conditions, as opposed to the roll of the dice that we've seen at most races in the super competitive era of Q1, Q2, and a 30 rider final. The better the conditions are, the more I think they reward a gambler's mindset. Everyone is going to be going roughly the same speed and the only way to set yourself apart is going to be risking it all for the biscuit. Some will get lucky, some won't, everyone will be going...

I'll never forget the "brand new" track. Barney Rubble was massive jagged rocks. By day two, we'd cracked it into rubble. Spin Cycle infuriated me day one. Just WHACK the opposite bank of a 45 degree gully. 180 & whack the other side of the ditch. Day 2, it was pure berm to berm slapping silt. I did wind up suspended upside down hanging down the ditch clipped in when a long root was loosened from the soil & captured me like something alive. Course marshall sitting there just stared and said "Haven't seen that before." Had to beg him...

I had that happen at a Sea Otter DH one year. I rag dolled through the gully/g-out and some dude just said "No one else crashed there." No offer of help.

Kate Hastings just got knocked out by Mille Johnset on a rerun. I assume Mille got redflagged earlier

PIT BITS vid from Lawlor is in. He said it started dumping after filming.