The second day of the 19th edition of the Red Bull Romaniacs took the Hard Enduro riders into alpine terrain up to over 2200 meters above sea level.
Red Bull Romaniacs Offroad Day 2 was a tough one to wake up to. There was just enough rain early morning to make a slight difference on the tracks, it was still dusty in parts but some better traction in others.
First out on the tracks today was Graham Jarvis (GBR, Husqvarna), giving him the advantage of no riders or dust in front of him, in contrast to yesterday when he started out in eleventh position. Jarvis quickly found his ‘happy place’ in the 60 degree inclinations and off camber traverses of ‘Titanic’, for the master of traction and slippery, technical terrain this was like a stroll in the park. Mario Roman (ESP, Sherco), was once again hot on the throttle as he tried to close the time gap and he succeeded in completing the three stages of Live Maniacs with the second fastest time. But it was Manuel Lettenbichler (DEU, KTM) who bulldozed through the ‘Titanic’ skipping some of the zig zags and picking a direct line up instead, a risk he was prepared to take having picked up a 2 hour penalty yesterday which will have a huge affect on his overall result. It paid off as he had the fastest times on all three stages followed by Mario Roman, Graham Jarvis and Michael Walkner (AUT).
Teodor Kabakchiev (BGR) gave a star performance and made very few mistakes all day, even on the very steep technical sections nd finished in third position behind Mani Lettenbichler and Graham Jarvis.