Red Bull Hardline Practice Action Highlights and Recap

Practice has been in full swing at Red Bull Hardline, the world’s toughest downhill mountain bike race. Riders have been scoping out and sizing up features along the fearsome track in the Dyfi Valley.

In true Welsh style, the riders have seen everything from torrential rain to blue skies. Changing weather conditions have continued to make the already challenging course even tougher. Riders got to grips with deep drops, high speed descents and extreme technical lines, all in preparation for finals on Sunday. 

Practice was cut short on Thursday due to high winds, which coincided with the sad news of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing, which brought a temporary halt to proceedings. Because of this, the riders pushed to fit in as much time on the bike on Friday as possible. 

Riders sessioned the lower section of the course, below the Road Gap, on Wednesday after the track walk and hit the upper section on Thursday, including the step-down and new on-off feature. They then pieced together larger sections of the track and Jackson Goldstone became the first rider so far to complete a top-to-bottom run through.  Following an intense week of practice for the riders, Daryl Brown, George Brannigan, Jess Blewitt, Phil Atwill and Kaos Seagrave won’t ride qualification, mostly due to injury. 

To catch up on all the action from practice and full behind the scenes action from this week, peep the edit:

The updated full rider list, including rider numbers, for Saturday is as follows;

Red Bull Hardline will be broadcast live globally on Red Bull TV from 1pm on Sunday 11th September. Ahead of the event, fans can enjoy daily shows documenting all of behind the scenes action at Red Bull Hardline with episodes 1 & 2 available to watch on Saturday 10th September on Red Bull Bike’s YouTube channel (embedded further up in this article), and episode 3 as an exclusive pre-show offering on Red Bull TV ahead of the main event. 

For further Red Bull Hardline updates, track builds and for more information visit www.redbull.com/hardline @RedBullUK with the hashtag #RedBullHardline.

About Red Bull Hardline

Hard by name, hard by nature, Red Bull Hardline isn’t an event for the fainthearted. Hailed as one of the toughest downhill mountain bike races in the world, the eighth  edition of Red Bull Hardline returns to the hills of Dyfi Valley in the north of Wales on 10th and 11th of September 2022. The intense course, built by Dan Atherton, combines tricky technical downhill features with huge freeride-style jumps.

About Trash Free Trails

Red Bull is proud to be collaborating with Trash Free Trails for the second year in a row. Trash Free Trails approved is a step by step checklist for race organizers that enables them to asses environmental impact, with the aim of delivering events that are as sustainable as possible. TFT Approved highlights that the first step an event can take is to massively reduce it’s single use plastic footprint – this is whay all Red Bull Hardline spectators and media are asked to bring their own water bottles with them. For more information please visit redbull.com/hardline.

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