Following on from a dominant display of speed at the world 70.3 Ironman triathlon championships of a road bike, Ollie examines just how much faster a time trial bike is (in theory) than an aero road bike in this week’s show.
The art of cliff diving returns to the Basque city to crown the 2019 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series champions while the women premiere in Spain and 2020 tickets are still up for grabs.
Although the overall titles were sealed during the penultimate stop in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the pressure is high in the men’s and women’s as only the best performers will make the cut for 2020 during the year’s final aesthetic free falls from up to 27m. Record-setting champions Gary Hunt from Great Britain and Australia’s Rhiannan Iffland have their ambitious goals defined for the final showdown in front of the iconic Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, when for the first time the women will display their graceful art in front of thousands of enthusiastic fans along the Nervión river.
It’s not exactly orthodox but the surfer at 0:47 knows how to get the job done, at well overhead Uluwatu no less. Seems like a very specific type of wave matched with plenty of foam were needed to pull off that kind of pop up, so it was a well executed strategy on his part.
Yet another salvo fired in the EV performance wars as Tesla claims it’s secured a production lap record at the Laguna Seca Raceway. We’re not so sure.
Quick? Yes. Record-setting? No.
We may never know for sure exactly what started the EV performance wars of 2019, but the arrival of the Porsche Taycan on the scene really stirred things up. When that car set a new Nurburgring Nordschleife EV lap record of 7:42, Tesla’s Elon Musk was quick to respond that their own ‘Ring attempt was coming (an attempt that Porsche eagerly welcomes). We’re still waiting on the results there, but Musk is now claiming that his company has secured the sedan lap record at California’s Laguna Seca Raceway.
I’m not so sure … More