Monzanator

Elena Cutoni takes the lead

Breezy Johnson 4th! Speedsters trying to restore some pride!

Ortlieb didn't choke like yesterday and gets 5th!

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Vlhova lost quite some time with a mistake in the bottom though, there is definitely room for improvement.

Yeah, the speed is obviously higher which took her outside of the line at the second to last turn.

Wiles catches an edge 20 meters before the finish and crashes into the boards. Hopefully no injury!

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

No rest for Bassino, Vlhova is still to come  

Well, today's time is 0,3 faster than yesterday despite virtually no change in the course so Vlhova will have to improve some too. At these speeds she's not as shifty as Bassino due to the weight difference.

3 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

I just read Waldner press conference summary, apparently Yanqing stage is at serious risk.

I read in Polish media this morning that the Chinese round has been cancelled outright due to the virus.

Brignone misses out by 0,04! Giant slalom party in Bansko downhill

Well, the in-form Suter manages to get within one second and is 4th. Brignone could still take this next!

Lara Gut threatened to defend the speedsters' pride but made a big mistake and down in 4th.

Delago four seconds slower than Bassino... in a downhill fraud

Bassino 0,25 faster than Shiffrin.

Given this track being a GS/SG combo there's every chance Bassino ends up on the podium

Haehlen is the first to crash out.

Seems like the top girls believe the sun effect will happen today as well and they chose the later bibs (Suter #19, Schmidhofer #17 and Venier #15). Goggia's withdrawal means Bassino jumps into Top 30 and starts with #4!

34 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I'm quite sure even inside China there are worse things causing more deaths.

Whatever happens inside China isn't a global problem though

24 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I mostly find it curious how something like this gets such huge media attention worldwide, while boatloads of way more dangerous diseases are never even mentioned. 

Because China gets more attention in the global media than some forgotten African country like Uganda or Congo nobody cares about?

7 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’m curious as to you guys think it the most important race in the world? I’d say LeMans personally. The other “important” races would be Daytona 24, Daytona 500, Sebring 12, Bathurst 12, Monaco Grand Prix, Indy 500, Isle Of Man TT, Dakar Rally, V8 1000 (forget the name of the track).

Mount Panorama at Bathurst.

The most important single race for me is obviously Indianapolis 500 and I say this as a motor racing fan since 1991

Iga Swiatek beats Donna Vekic 75 63 and advances to 4th round.

Next up Anett Kontaveit who surprisingly whooped sixth seed Belinda Bencic 60 61!

21 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Ford was the big loss. I didn’t know they had plans to pull out. That will hurt the WEC too. Nissan isn’t too much of a loss since they most help privateer teams, and those teams can just find a different manufacturer.

 

I believe (last I read) that Nissan (and potential Ford) are working on the new Hypercars for the WEC.

Nissan also pulled out of the V8 Supercars in Australia at the end of 2019 so it's a part of a bigger deal. And Ford scaled down on the factory support in V8 some time ago but it's curious to see Chaz Mostert in the GTLM BMW here. He's spend his entire career in V8s as Ford driver including the works Ford Performance team before.

2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I thought it looked insanely small . That’s really weird since IMSA is well established now, and the economy isn’t shit. I have no clue why there’s less entries. Hopefully this isn’t a sign to come for LeMans this year.

Ford & Nissan pulled out of the series.

Anna Maka's previous PB was... 72nd

She last raced in World Cup in Antholz 2018.

7 women with 20/20.

On the other hand Fialkova sisters both 5 misses each, Kaisa 7 and Charvatova 8!

7 minutes ago, hckosice said:

huge downhill pb for Petra

 

step by step

Like mentioned earlier, this slope was 70% giant slalom course Marie-Michele Gagnon finished ahead of Corinne Suter