About Gravity Lab

Gravity Lab is an experiment in race coverage for the UCI Mountain Bike World Series Downhill. It started as a side-project to make race weekends more interesting to follow, and turned into something a bit bigger along the way.

The idea is simple. The official broadcast and TV graphics give you five sector splits during a live run. The post-race archive that timing companies share with teams has eleven. Most fans never see those eleven, and most teams never share them publicly. This site puts both within reach.

Live during race weekend. Pull-by-pull updates from the timing system through qualifying and finals, with sector splits, gap charts, podium predictions, and a perfect-ride benchmark.

Post-race archive. The full eleven-split breakdown for every category, every rider. Compare riders, trace where time was won and lost, see which split each rider dominated.

Team analytics. A dedicated view for race teams that surfaces their riders' performance against the field, identifies field-best splits, and quantifies what a perfect run could have been.

Live data comes from the public timing API that serves the official UCI feed. The post-race eleven-split archive comes from the published results files distributed to teams. Nothing here is private timing data; it's all post-race public record, just presented differently.

Built as a personal project. Not affiliated with the UCI or any team. Feedback, corrections, and bug reports very welcome; drop a note below.

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