At the second race of the Enduro World Series in Argentina, the deep dust is the participants' biggest opponent for once. Some big names are also drowning in it. Cecile Ravanel and Richie Rude, however, are celebrated as winners for the second time. Carolin Gehrig achieves her best career result in the deep dust, and Swiss junior Igor Muller finishes a good fifth.

There was already a lot of dust on the tracks at the first World Series race in Chile. The second race at the Cerro Catedral Bike Park was probably the deepest and most dusty the riders had ever experienced. In fact, the brown powder was a real problem for most of the participants. Lines tested in training are almost impossible to find again in the race. Riders with a fixation for lines, such as ten-time downhill world champion Nicolas Vouilloz, struggle to find their race pace or crash in the deep dust.

Richie Rude (USA) copes best with the difficult conditions and wins again ahead of Belgian Martin Maes and again by just under seven seconds. Sam Blenkinsop also enjoys throwing dust around. The downhill specialist from New Zealand rode to third place, twelve seconds ahead of the surprise of the weekend, Spaniard Toni Ferreiro.

Ravanel in second place - Gehrig in seventh

Cecile Ravanel can also repeat her victory - albeit with a considerable gap to the runner-up. She rode the fastest time on five of the six downhill stages and distanced Canadian Casey Brown by over a minute. Brown, who is still new to the enduro circus and is otherwise on the downhill scene, rode the best time on the final stage.

In eighth place at the first race in Chile, Carolin Gehrig is delighted with another best performance. Her tactic of taking it easy on the slippery tracks worked and she finished the first race day in sixth place. Despite losing some ground on the second day of racing, Gehrig achieves her best career result with seventh place.
Anita Gehrig does not have luck on her side. After three seasons without a puncture, she suffered a puncture on the third stage and lost a lot of time. She got going better on the second day of the race, but still just missed out on a place in the top ten.

In the junior class, Igor Muller from Ticino delivers a strong race. Third on the first stage, he showed a solid race over both race days and finished in fifth place. The fastest junior is Frenchman Sebastien Claquin.

Results EWS Bariloche/Argentina

The 1-minute highlights from the race

A break before the next break

The enduro riders have around six weeks until the next stop of the Enduro World Series to get back into shape for the third race near Wicklow in Ireland. Cool and very varied race tracks and thousands of enthusiastic spectators await the riders there
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