WS Lenzerheide: Another fantastic week for the team
AON is going strong! Weeks of back to back racing and our riders are spoiling us with one great result after another. On the traditional in Lenzerheide we had 3 out of 4 in the finals, with Henry again missing it for a very small margin. On the end two top-10s and P25 for Reece, which was good enough to be 10th team of the day!
It wasn’t just sun and beach in Lenzerheide. The challenging track is hard for racing, and the first qualifications session was a stressful event. Riders kept it cool, both Hattie and Reece qualified and then made the next step in the finals. Hattie was 5th, Reece 25th, which is great result in this competition!
Stan was fast as throughout the weekend and is making his name among fastest juniors. He was 6th on the end, matching his best ever in the World Cup. He’s keeping the consistency and making the right steps towards even better results.
Stan Nisbet: “Track was sick to ride and race. It had many challenges the whole way down which made it really hard to link the whole thing together. My race run was pretty good, felt fast and comfy, in a couple sections I pushed the limits a little too hard and that costed me. Happy to get a cleanish run on such a demanding track.”
Finals were a completely different story, with top part drying very fast. We sticked to cut Dirty Dans as the bottom was still muddy, the results proved this was the right decision.
Stan showed another strong performance on the junior race to take P6, his new personal best in the World Cup. He’s now fifth on overall rankings. Henry opened the elite men race, but had a slide off the track on the top off camber, and lost too much time pulling the bike back on the slippery grass. Reece went out of the start gate halfway through the men’s finals and showed on of his best runs in the last two seasons. Aggressive riding took him to a well-deserved top-20 finish.
Reece Wilson: “I had a brilliant week at Lenzerheide. Proud of my ability to turn my whole weekend around after my Q1 run and get myself into the final. I felt like my old self this week and found some good speed. I’m hungrier than ever!”
Henry Kerr: “A bittersweet weekend of racing for me. Rode well in my quali runs and pushed hard to really give it everything but my everything wasn’t enough at this moment in time. I wasn’t far off but with the times so tight, it feels like one error and you’re out. I need to figure out how I can up my pace earlier in the week to give myself more breathing room come qualis and that’s my goal moving forward! Thanks team!”
Results DH – qualies / finals / overall:
Hattie – 2nd Q2 / 5th / 5th
Reece – 10th Q2 / 25th / 26th
Henry – 19th Q2 / no finals / 45th
Stan (juniors) – 11th / 6th / 5th
Team rankings – 12th overall (10th team of the day)
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