World Cup Round 3, Leogang, Austria

Last weekend was the third round of the World Cup series in Leogang,Austria.

Team Cingolani Trek set up

The Event started out on Thursday with the registration and track walk, the track was much the same as last year,but they changed a few sections that didnt flow that well and the top section was mostly new,and with the rain during the week it was looking super fun !
Friday was the first day of practice and the track was a bit moist and was starting to cut up nicely getting some big ruts and holes! so it was heaps of fun to ride.
Saturday was qualifying day,and being in the top 20 in the overall meant i was protected which meant i would go through to the final on Sunday no matter where i ended up in the Qualifying run, so that took a bit of pressure off! and after changing some of my lines in the mornings practice i was feeling good and just wanted to have a clean run down in qualifying and not push it too much, and i ended up 24th.
Pretty much straight after qualifying the rain came which made for pretty horendous conditions for the 4X which was on that night and the rain didnt really ease up till sunday morning, race day.
First run down for practice was a whole lot worse than i expected, the top section was super boggy and it was a bit of a lucky dip weather you chose a good line for a corner and if you came out of the turn on youre bike or not! which i found out the hard way with a ripper of an over the bars on my second run when my bike stoped in the mud in the turn but i kept going.
For the race run i decided to just back it off a little bit and stay on my bike.My run started out pretty average with a few stall outs in the top turns so i backed it off a bit and just tryed to ride smooth but i think i rode a little bit too cautious and ended up in 29th position, so i wasnt too stoked on that but at least it was still a reasonably consistant result and it kept me in 18th in the overall.
All up it was a pretty good weekend and i was having heaps of fun on my bike in the mud!

 Next World Cup is Mont Saint Anne so looking forward to that!