An experiment. A companion to the UCI Mountain Bike World Series Downhill. Track every split as qualifying unfolds, follow the live finals as the race plays out, then dive into the post-race archive for full sector analysis and team comparisons the broadcast doesn't show.
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// LENZERHEIDE · ROUND 04 · BUILD-UP ● 18–20 JUN
Four from four……Lina Frener has topped every session she has started across two rounds
Two rounds, four sessions on the clock, four fastest. At Leogang she
led timed training by 13.5 s, qualifying by 7.0
and the final by 3.4. At Lenzerheide she has opened
timed training 7.5 s clear. The margin shrinks as the runs start
to count, but it has not run out.
Only three winners have ever come up from Q2……and two of them came from Lenzerheide last year
Every final is fed by two qualifying runs. Make the cut in Q1 and you go
straight through. Miss it and you drop to Q2, the last-chance run, and
almost nobody wins from there. Across 26 elite finals in 2025 and 2026,
it has happened just three times. Lenzerheide, where two of them came on the same
afternoon, returns this week.
2026 · R3
2025 · R1
Legend // the three Q2 wins
IlesLeogang · 2026Q2
PierronLenzerheide · 2025Q2
SeagraveLenzerheide · 2025Q2
● 2 of 3 came from Lenzerheide
26 elite finals · 2025–26 · UCI / Chronorace
// ROUND 03 · RESULTS ARCHIVE CLICK THROUGH ↗
Leogang: every split, side by side
Round 03 in long form: the winners, the duel in full, the gap chart
and team analytics. Below is a still of the men's elite podium. Iles
took it by 0.2 s after three and a quarter
minutes; Kiefer made the box 0.8 s back.
// LEOGANG · 2025 · THE WINNING MARGINS ● ON THIS PAGE
The race where Hemstreet beat Bruni 15 times
Leogang, last year. The men's final was settled by 0.059 s,
Goldstone over Loïc Bruni, the closest margin of the weekend. Take that gap
as the unit: one Bruni. Hemstreet won the women's final by 0.865 s
over Newkirk, which is 14.7 Brunis laid end to end. Same finish
line, the distance between first and second measured in the smallest gap the
weekend produced.
For the first time this season, the order on paper and the order on
the day came apart. The winner was fifth-fastest across the weekend,
the two quickest men finished third and twenty-third, and one rider
has now delivered her perfect run at both rounds.
// LOUDENVIELLE · 2026 ROUND TWO · MEN ELITE ● ON THIS PAGE
Nothing Left: Flipping the Podium
Shaw won by a tenth. But take each man's fastest version of every
sector across the weekend and the podium turns over. Williams,
third on the day, had a 3:27.039 in him,
six tenths under the winning time, scattered across
four separate descents and never ridden in one
piece. Shaw stays first on this measure too, only because he has
nowhere to improve: his perfect lap was the one he raced. He won
with nothing left.
// ROUND 02 · INTERACTIVE RESULTS CLICK THROUGH ↗
Loudenvielle: every split, side by side
The full Loudenvielle timing sheet, rebuilt as something you can
play with. Every rider, every sector, the run-shape sparklines and
the gap chart. Click riders in and out to build your own
comparison. Below is a still of three rows; the real thing moves.
// LOUDENVIELLE 2026 PREVIEW · 2025 LOOKBACK ● ON THIS PAGE
Comeback Canadians
Hemstreet was 3 seconds down at split one and
won by 3. Goldstone was 1.5 down and won by
1.5. Same race shape, different scale. Each panel uses its own
rider's seconds — slide them together to see the mirror.
// THE FINISH LINE · 2025 · MEN ELITE ● ON THIS PAGE
Fast vs Fastest
Two World Cup finishes from 2025. Loudenvielle's top three
crossed in 2.971 s. Leogang's top fifteen, in
3.040 s. Same finish line, same three seconds
— five times the field.
Every input on a downhill bike draws from the same finite pot of grip.
Amaury Pierron had the World Cup opener won with a corner to go. This is
where it went. The physics of traction, told through the
3.2 s swing at Mona Yongpyong.
Round 01 in long form: the winners, the duel in full, the gap
chart and team analytics. Below is a still of the final's podium
rows. Pierron is fastest in three of the five sectors and
finishes third; Field Notes 01 explains why.
Asa Vermette posted the fastest run of the weekend. Each dot below
is a single timed Q1, Q2 or Final run, plotted at the
metres back the rider would have been if they'd held
their pace to the line.
Hover any dot for the rider, session and gap.
Q1Q2Final
// THE DUEL · MONA YONGPYONG · WOMEN ● ON THIS PAGE
Changing of the guard? Advantage Ostgaard
Höll set the pace for nine splits and led by as much as
1.45 s at sector 8. Ostgaard, racing as a
junior, took the lead at sector 12 and held it to the line.
The line below is Höll's running gap to Ostgaard.
