RIDECairns takes you on a high speed run with World-Cup DH legend and Cairns local Mick Hannah down the newly re-built DH course for the upcoming 2014 Cairns UCI World-Cup in April. The course is truly unique where it also hosted the first world-cup round in the southern hemisphere back in 1994, then culminating with the infamous 1996 World-Championship Trials.
Set deep in the rainforst clad mountains, only 10 minutes drive form the Cairns International Rainforest. At the start line you are greeted with stunning views out towards the great barrier reef.
An open-wheeled IndyCar and a streamlined bobsled may seem worlds apart, but for David Cripps – a former engineer for IndyCar Series team Panther Racing that’s now helping the U.S. bobsled team in Sochi – his new job isn’t much different from his old one.
“My responsibilities are very similar to an IndyCar race engineer. I am basically responsible for the performance, reliability, development and day-to-day running of the sleds,” Cripps told IndyCar’s official website ahead of training runs in Russia. “There has been a fairly large amount of development upgrades coming up to the Games.” … More