Red Bull Romaniacs 2010 Blog, Day 1

Last years winner Andreas Lettenbichler Paul Bolton and Jade Gutzeit  are doing a brave job at Stonehenge. The enormous steep hill is absolutly unridable in this conditions. Helpers and spectators help to push and pull the three heroes bikes up.

After long hours of struggle in the woods the first expert riders reach the Servicepoint to recover for a few minutes and catch some urgently needed gas.
First Expert Team at Servicepoint: Cyprian Zdanek (200) + Martin Volny (201)
First Expert Single: Adrian Broughton (118)

The enduring rain of the last days and today made the track wet and very slippery.
First two Pro riders Graham Jarvis and Chris Birch reach the Servicepoint far behind schedule. Jarvis passed Birch on the track, both witness that the conditions are
very exhausing, time and power consuming.

Some problems were caused by a barrier which let the waterlevel rise pretty quick at the river Sadu. The riders have to cross this river between CP2 and CP3. Only a small group of the first riders could pass it before the water was to high. It took some time until the barrier was closed again and the other riders were able to cross the river.

Jade Gutzeit, Letti and Taddy arrived about 1 hour behind leading Graham Jarvis had some navigation issues and chrashed both pretty hard also. Taddy has shoulder problems again, but he hopes that he can finish. Jade Gutzeit hopes that the track will be shortened that more riders have a chance to finish.
Riders at Servicepoint:
Pro: Graham Jarvis, Chris Birch, Lionel Seydoux, Andreas
Lettenbichler, Jade Gutzeit, Taddy Blazusiak

21 year old Lars Enöckl from Austria crashed on friday during training for the prologue. The youngest pro-rider of this year's Romaniacs didn't want to be stopped by his now broken nose. He's doing perfectly well today and says it's hard and it's fun riding here. We consider him around 17th position.

Zdenek Cyprian (200) and Martin Volny (201) of the Czech Republik are the first Team-Experts we see riding into the muddy section after approximately five hours of this hard and heavy day. And still a long way to go...

After his navigation-mistake Taddy Blazusiak catches up. Behind Jade Gutzeit he passes Rescue Point 2 in 5th position. Together with german rider and last years winner Andreas Lettenbichler.

The second pro-rider to appear at our blog-point is Graham Jarvis: five minutes behind Chris Birch. 19 minutes after Birch we see Jade Gutzeit. Another 2 minutes later comes Lionel Seydoux.

The trial class was the first to enter the track of day one at the seventh edition of the legendary Red Bull Romaniacs.
On a very early, grey and rainy morning the four riders dived into the carpathian forrest about 13km outside of Sibiu. The rain will make it hard for everyone and we wish all riders a safe first day @ the hardest extrem enduro rallye on the face of this planet.