Race Report: Rock & Roll World Cup Day 2

Details: Published: 24 July 2008

Skateboard Qualifying Rained Out-Labarthe Leads Street Luge Stephenson sl
Will Stephenson (GBR) and Roberto Marasca (ITA) on a Street Luge practice run. Photo Yorck Dertinger

Thalgau, Austria - Rain continued to create havoc for the Rock & Roll World Cup race. The Downhill Skateboard class was canceled after rain started coming down on parts of the course causing four of the first six skaters to crash. Yvon Labarthe of Switzerland turned in the quickest time in Street Luge qualifying.

It was decided to continue with Street Luge qualifying after Skateboarding and continue with the Downhill Skateboard qualifying if conditions improved. Later event organizer Alex Frischauf and Chief Steward Eimer Mayer decided to cancel the remainder of the day early after the conclusion of Dirtsurfer and Inline Skate qualifying. Downhill skateboarding will make both of their qualifying runs tomorrow.

Earlier in the afternoon Jochen Baumann from Germany set the fastest qualifying time in Classic Luge qualifying. He was followed by Labarthe and former World Champion Leander Lacey from South Africa in third.

As mentioned earlier, Labarthe was the fastest Street Luge qualifier followed by the German contingent of Eugen Forschner and Mathias Lang. Leander Lacey crashed on his qualifying attempt and wound up in 23rd position.

In dirtsurfer qualifying it was Andreas Pfister from Germany in first, Ursin Tanner of Switzerland in second and Markus Hutter in third after their first runs. Scott Peer from the United States made the lone qualifying attempt in Inline Skating.

Qualifying resumes tomorrow at 9:00am.

Street Luge Qualifying
Place	#	Surename	First Name	Country	1st Run
1	13	Labarthe	Yvon	SUI	02:25.3
2	73	Forschner	Eugen	GER	02:26.2
3	57	Lang	Mathias	GER	02:27.3
4	37	Wagner	Olivier	SUI	02:27.7
5	25	Eliot	Peter	GBR	02:27.8
6	178	Marasca	Robert	ITA	02:28.6
7	48	Worsley	Tom	GBR	02:30.3
8	95	Barboni	Frederico	ITA	02:30.3
9	59	Santolamazza	Luca	ITA	02:31.1
10	98	Mahdzan	Abdil	MAY	02:31.3
11	80	de Wit	Edgar	NED	02:31.3
12	81	Stephenson	William	GBR	02:31.4
13	79	Maspero	Pierluigi	ITA	02:34.3
14	60	Lang	Jochiam	GER	02:34.6
15	15	Muller	Michael	AUT	02:35.4
16	96	DeMarco	Christian	SUI	02:36.5
17	56	McBride	Chris	USA	02:36.7
18	176	Ptak	Jacek	POL	02:36.8
19	61	Klimek	Sebastian	POL	02:38.4
20	167	Bunsch	Lukasz	POL	02:39.3
21	99	Sartori	Fabio	SUI	02:40.5
22	190	Brinkman	Henric	SUI	02:44.1
23	51	Lacey	Leander	RSA	02:45.7
24	58	Hurd	Max	GBR	02:55.5

Classic Luge Qualifying
Place	#	Surename	First Name	Country	1st Run
1	97	Baumann	Jochen	GER	02:29.6
2	13	Labarthe	Yvon	SUI	02:29.8
3	51	Lacey	Leander	RSA	02:29.8
4	28	Serek	Michael	AUT	02:30.7
5	17	Schutz	Christian	GER	02:31.2
6	53	Klotzberg	Georg	AUT	02:31.2
7	110	Weigl	Konstantin	AUT	02:31.3
8	178	Marasca	Roberto	ITA	02:32.8
9	81	Stephenson	William	GBR	02:33.3
10	59	Santolamazza	Luca	ITA	02:33.9
11	57	Lang	Mathias	GER	02:34.9
12	98	Mahdzan	Abdil	MAY	02:34.9
13	79	Maspero	Pierluigi	ITA	02:35.3
14	24	Poletto	Massimo	ITA	02:36.4
15	60	Lang	Joachim	GER	02:37.7
16	56	McBride	Chris	USA	02:37.8
17	95	Barboni	Frederico	ITA	02:38.2
18	25	Eliot	Peter	GBR	02:38.4
19	26	Manarin	Michele	ITA	02:39.7
20	16	Peer	Scott	USA	02:42.7
22	45	Zalesky	Petr	CZE	02:46.3
23	42	Profus	Jan	CZE	02:52.6
24	46	Righetti	Carlo	ITA	02:53.9
25	78	Fink	Maaz	GER	DNS
26	99	Sartori	Fabio	SUI	DNS
27	88	Johnson	Andreas	SWE	DNS

Dirtsurfer Qualifying
Place	#	Surename	First Name	Country	1st Run
1	44	Pfister	Andreas	GER	02:36.4
2	27	Tanner	Ursin	SUI	02:41.2
3	198	Hutter	Markus	GER	02:45.1
4	21	Szostek	Tomasz	POL	02:49.0
5	38	Machura	Michal	POL	02:53.3
6	29	Jaggerd	Jody	GBR	02:57.7
7	34	Aebin	Stephane	SUI	03:04.9

Inline Skate Qualifying
Place	#	Surename	First Name	Country	1st Run
1	16	Peer	Scott	USA	02:59.3