TROY BROSNAN: We're at Mont St. Anne for the fourth World
Cup of the season.
There's a lot of sections that have been smoothed out and
made easier but still looking sick.
All the woods are still pretty technical and got a few lines.
So there's time to be made up.
And it's one of my favorite tracks--
done good here in the past, and hopefully
I can do good again.
I think I've just got a better head.
I'm not taking as many risks but making sure that I hold
speed the whole way down the track.
And I think it's just helped me a fair bit that I had
almost a season off last year, and I've come back
fresher this year.
I don't know.
I just think I want it more.
I'm more determined now.
AARON GWIN: It looks fast this year.
They bike-parked it up.
It'll be fast, so it will be cool to watch.
And I think it'll make for good racing.
Times will be tight.
I feel like I've been riding better than I ever have been.
But sometimes you can do everything right, and it still
doesn't get you the result you want.
I've just been having some bad luck in my race runs, making
some big mistakes.
But that's how it is.
When you ride the edge and you try to race for wins--
I don't try to race for second--
it just happens.
A lot of the races that you win, you have moments where it
almost went really bad, but you saved it.
And so the last few races, I just haven't been
able to save it.
Yeah, so it'll come.
It's just a matter of time.
So I'm just looking forward to hopefully putting a clean run
down and then seeing what happens.
MITCH ROPELATO: Yeah, it's a bit wet.
Just all the spots, they seem like they put a lot of dirt
over the top of everything to fill it in, pave it out.
I don't know what they were thinking.
But that stuff just all turned to soft, greasy stuff now.
And then you've got the hard pack underneath.
So you're just cutting through all the greasy stuff and then
hitting hard pack.
And I think it's going to be a little bit more technical.
I think everyone that was complaining yesterday that it
wasn't very technical, I think they're going to
get what they wanted.
TROY BROSNAN: Yeah, it was good.
It was real smooth.
The top section, I got pretty pinned.
I was a couple seconds off of the first split, but I just
kept pinning it to the bottom and go real
loose in one section.
I actually ended up getting a front flat just under a minute
from the bottom.
So I went down pretty slow, so I could still
hit most of my lines.
But I definitely backed it off a fair bit.
And well, we're looking good for Sunday, and I think I can
take almost that time back off.
So I'm pretty excited.
I was sitting about ninth or 10th now, so let's bring it
for finals.
AARON GWIN: Yeah, I just had a good, smooth run.
Yeah, it was good.
I think it's two seconds back or something like that.
I definitely got more time in the bag, but the tracks coming
around so much different almost every run.
And that was the first run where I really started to feel
like I was starting to get up to speed, so I'm pretty stoked
we have tomorrow, try a few things, set-up that I've been
wanting to do and then just continue to get things dialed.
So yeah, with that run, I'm real happy with the time.
JACY SHUMILAK: Yeah, they all had pretty good runs.
Mitch had a really good run.
He got 27th in qualifying, so that's pretty good.
It's awesome to get through qualifying.
He's just building upon the things that he has in
the past few races.
So we're ready to go do some cleaning, do some tuning,
maybe put some new wheels on, set up some tires.
And yeah, we've got a long day ahead of us.
But it should be a good day.
MITCH ROPELATO: It was good.
I pedaled real good.
I hit sections super nice, super good.
I might have just braked too hard for a couple of other
corners, just being cautious.
I don't know.
I had a blast.
I had a good weekend.
The results don't show it, but go back and see what we can
figure out and see if I can change it for the next one.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
TROY BROSNAN: It was good.
I don't know.
I rode as good as I could with the conditions.
Not much we can really do-- just go down in one piece.
So I was one of the fastest that came down when it was
raining, so I can't complain.
And the main thing is I'm healthy.
I'm ready to go to South Africa and just go train up
and come back angry and bloody try and win that thing.
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AARON GWIN: It's a good step in the right direction, man.
Everybody's close.
It's crazy how close all the podiums are now.
But yeah, good to just get a run down without any major
problems happening.
I made a couple of mistakes, but I think that
was expected today.
It was slippery at the top for us.
But happy--
good to be back on the podium, and everything's
feeling good, man.
So I'm just excited to get to the next couple races.
Yeah, man, Worlds--
I'm stoked.
I think I'm looking forward to a couple of weeks at home
now-- we've been on the road for a while-- and just
training and then just giving her all she's got there.
So it should be good.