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17.05.24 PHIL ATWILL voice note (Vaguely edited)

Oh, large. Yeah, go on. Then I’ll give you a quick one. Yeah. Poland sick. What a place, mate.

What a place.

What a track.

Lots of chatter before track walk about how it wasn’t going to be a good track, but actually, it’s quite the place to ride a mountain bicycle.

Yeah, the whole team and most of the paddock, I think, have had a fantastic day. It cut in nicely with the mid-practice weather.

Yeah, I’ve personally changed a few things on my bike. Got rid of that noise issue that I had in Fort William.

Man and machine are feeling good.

Yeah. Excited to get into it tomorrow, to be honest.

Give you another voice note tomorrow. Probably be a bit more in-depth.

20.05.24 PHIL ATWILL voice note (Vaguely edited)

Yo large, how are we doing? Yeah, man, updates.

We’ve just landed in Geneva after not sleeping last night and travelling through the night, which has been absolutely horrendous.

God knows why Malcolm booked that flight.

I probably told him to.

But anyhow, yeah, the race obviously didn’t go as planned for myself, which is a bit of a shame.

Definitely had good speed during practice. Just misjudged it, I was probably a bit overconfident in my abilities and misjudged it in qualifiers.

I literally rolled through the line like, oh yeah, that’d be a nice little mid-pack quali. And mate was like, Phil Atwill, 65th I ended up like a hundred and fourth.

So yeah, that was pretty devastating and yeah, you can’t take it easy. You just got to push hard ay, it’s a World Cup, everyone’s going fast.

But yeah, Marco did good. Qualified, qualified well and ended up in 20th, which is cool. So hopefully that, I’m pretty sure that’s going to help build his confidence going into the next races.

Likewise, Gaëtan was flying all weekend, then had a hugey in practice, could fucking barely get dressed by himself and then had another hugey in semis at the top, so he missed the cut. But yeah, he would’ve been on for a good one, if not.

All in all big improvements from Fort William and we’re excited for Leogang.

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