【Vital MTB】Charlie Hatton如何成為世界冠軍

Vital's BePractice Podcast is proudly sponsored by Maxis, BIRGTECH, and Industry9 Maxis, make or break section This is DAX section, every race weekend It's not TrackSnack, it's TrackFacts Maxis, make or break, Dakota, TrackFacts section of the week Dakota, we can talk about the track as a whole A lot of, you know, Fort Bell is long, they did a lot of changes There's a lot of sections, I guess you could call it, that track is broken up into But what do you think had a huge effect on, or what section had a huge effect on how the race went? Split 2 The rock, everything we didn't see Yeah, that whole split 2, nobody knows what happened up there Yeah, I don't know what Charlie did, what did he do, did he cut the track? Did he, did he Ooh, a hot take from Dakota Norton, I don't know, Dakota Norton thinks that Charlie Hatton cut the track Newspaper across the street I'm kidding, I'm kidding, but I want to know where he found that amount of time Because the homie was 3.76 to the second split He, he, um, he put a, does that I think the Atherton has hovercraft mode, because he put a Hurton on us Oh, dude, yeah, that's to make a break second in the rock I mean, we, we've known forever that Fort William was gnarly for that top physical section The pinball, um, G out, carrying speed through these corners that don't really have a lot of support Where you had to kind of pedal out and you're, you're trying to carry momentum The race, in the race run, the momentum was harder to come by Because you'd come out of a corner and the ground was rolling just so slow at sections Where in practice, I felt like I had been struggling to stay on the track Or, um, you know, like rolling with good speed I felt like I needed to get off and walk in my race run So I think that what Charlie did was just having, obviously we've seen him lose a second on the motorway And historically, we would see the race in Wanderloft on the motorway Exiting the woods at the bottom Um, Ahmari put a ton of time into everybody, um, exiting the woods last year And I, if you would have come into the weekend And if you would have asked me where the race would have been Wanderloft I would have honestly probably said in the woods But that was not the case, um, from the boardwalk to the woods I mean, that is a big section But I think Charlie did a really good job at creating intensity in sections Where other people were maybe trying to save energy for the bottom Or overlooking taking those extra pedals And, you know, the knowledge of, the British knowledge of Port William did prevail Because you could tell he was absolutely smoked at the bottom and hung on to the motorway I mean, he pedaled less than a lot of people And actually coasted in major key motorway sections With it running what I would call slow, rolling slow So, it was pretty cool to see a different approach prevail for him to win the race It just seemed like he would tack from top to bottom And then just pedaled where he knew he needed to on the motorway But maybe some of the places where we threw pedals in that weren't as effective He just chose to talk And, yeah, got the job done Yeah, pretty well Was that a part of Sector 2, was that all new as well? Like, were it kind of connected in to where Dante crashed? Yeah, so, they ran, it was OG from the boardwalk After the cattle gate, so they took the cattle gate out And they just made a big left-hand berm there And then actually you hit the cattle, you went where the cattle gate was So it was all the same for the cattle gate They dug the cattle gate out, put in a left-hand berm You went off the fadeaway, the kind of legendary rock fadeaway And then they made a right-hand berm and a left-hand berm Or right-hand berm, a left flat corner And it went from the old track to that new section they added a few years ago And just kind of traversed over And put in one really awesome corner Had a couple big berms, big compressions More high-speed bike park, modern racetrack And then they did leave some of the classic, a few of the classic Fort William corners But a lot of the corners, they just freshed them up And they had no rocks in them And they were just like bike park berms made out of that crushed concrete I believe it is that they used to build the track And they just kind of put a fresh layer on the entire track And honestly it was awesome to ride It was pretty dry and slippery the first day And then tacky on qualifying morning And dried out again for qualifying And then good again for race morning And then dried out for initial riders But the speed was really good all week In terms of rolling speed Tires were rolling across the ground well The berms had good support And speed was like a luxury item You didn't need to pedal out of a lot of the corners You were kind of on the limit naturally And I think everybody practiced the track with pretty good grip Or on the limit And then when it did rain It made, it took the needs for like Where we were wanting to pedal out of the woods That being the main need for pedaling I think that Charlie saw an opportunity And was able to capitalize on that Where a lot of us overlooked it Due to the speed the track was running in practice Yeah, and you think he kind of knew more Like having more knowledge there Knew where those soft pockets, soft spots were Not necessarily the soft pockets I just think that he knew That he would just have to hang it on the throttle stop From top to bottom and hold on Where some of us were maybe a little like Honestly, I hit all the corners as hard as I could I just missed some of the pedaling I think I should have took Now that I went back and watched helmet cams And watched race replays And definitely Like for my race run I structured it a little bit differently I had different goals I mean he clearly wanted to win at home So not that I didn't want it I can't say that I didn't want to win the race I was just saying that Maybe I underestimated the limit of traction a little bit And I think that it definitely would have helped To have grown up racing there For sure