Hello,
Italy’s Dolomite mountains tower up around Val di Fassa, the venue for this weekend’s first-ever Enduro MTB World Championships.
It’s an impressive setting made even more dramatic by the coating of snow from the wintry weather of the last few days.
Regardless of the conditions, and as Enrico Guala noted in his event-opening speech on Friday, enduro can deal with a bit of adversity – the show continues.
Racing (enduro and e-enduro) is tomorrow, Sunday 15 September.*
We’ll be back with a post-race report, photos by Boris and Sven, and full notes after the race. In the meantime, you’ll find some useful links and numbers below.
Cheers,
James
+the Misspent Summers team
*The race was planned for Saturday, but early this week, with snow forecast on Thursday and Friday, it was moved to Sunday; three of the five race stages start a bit lower than planned. Bravo to the organisers for planning a contingency day (and making everyone aware of it) from the start
FULL ENDURO: WORLD CHAMPS 2024 VAL DI FASSA, ITALY
Useful links/notes:
- Live timing and results
- Interactive spectator course map
- Val di Fassa Enduro World Cup 2023 report
- Full highlights will be published on the UCI YouTube page after the race and broadcast on Eurosport on September 19th at 5 PM CET
- Schedule: Saturday 14 September = practice (enduro and e-enduro); Sunday 15 September = race (both); Monday 16 September = aftermath
Enduro World Championships – some numbers:
- 222: riders registered
- 32: nations
- 42: French team members
- 6: Italian team members
- 5: enduro race stages
- 9: e-enduro race stages
- 150: volunteer marshals
- 700: number of hand warmers purchased by local organiser for volunteer marshals
- 100: volunteers shovelling snow on Friday
- 63: accredited media
- 2013: year of first-ever Enduro World Series
- 0: number of news articles relating to Enduro World Champs on ucimtbworldseries.com homepage (as of 1 pm 14/09/24)
- 44: number of posts (direct and collab) since 12/09/24 relating to Enduro World Champs on UCI MTB World Series Instagram page (as of 1 pm 14/09/24)
- 1: pizza-focaccia hybrid spotted in the media room
- 476: Italians offended by the pizza-focaccia hybrid
- 28: centimetres of snow on Instagram by Friday midday
Further reading:
Val di Fassa 2023 Enduro World Cup race report
Boggy notes from Loudenvielle 2024 Enduro World Cup
Mud-stained notes from Loudenvielle 2024 Downhill World Cup
Notes newsletters are compiled with the help of many contributors. Thank you to everyone who chips in – we love doing this stuff and you make it possible.
