Red Bull Pumptrack World Championship Announced

A new-for-2018 global series has been launched to crown a Pumptrack World Champion. In partnership with Velosolutions, the Red Bull Pumptrack World Championship will culminate in the season finale in Lenzerheide, Switzerland in September.

Here’s all you need to know about the high-octane new championship:

The qualifiers begin in Rosendaal in the Netherlands on the weekend of March 10-11.
A total of 23 qualifying rounds have been scheduled on the provisional calendar from March to August with the UCI Championship then ensuing on September 7.
Claudio Caluori, one of the brains behind the project, describes the series as something to “give riders from around the world the chance to be a World Champion and make their country proud.”
Pumptracks are already all over the world and combine rolling jumps with banked turns, riders using the track features to gain momentum and attack the track as fast as possible.
Racing will either take place in a head-to-head battle or a time trial, the format varying depend on the track.
Each qualifier begins with a seeding run from which the top 32 men and women will progress to the knockout heats.
The top four men and women from each round will advance to the aforementioned World Championship, and each winner will get an all-expenses-paid trip to said championship.