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Switch to full suspension helps French mountain biker come back as world champ
It's been seven long years since Julien Absalon won the cross country world championships. On Saturday, the French legend of mountain biking earned the rainbow striped jersey for the fifth time in his career.
"I won four in a row, and the last one was in 2007. It was a long time without," said Absalon. "It's a pleasure have the jersey, and it will be nice to ride with it again next year."
His world championship win came at the end of a perfect season.
"I got all the jerseys I...
It’s one of the biggest entertainment-electronics fairs worldwide. The ‘Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin’, IFA. It opened its gates last week, presents its visitors the latest products and information - and DTM is in the thick of it.
BILS2RThe most popular international touring-car series is represented several times, at the IFA. The Audi RS 5 DTM of reigning DTM Champion Mike Rockenfeller decorates the booth of DTM’s German TV partner ARD (hall 2 / stand 2). Four racing simulators offer the visitors the chance of demonstrating their driving skills and battling it out with one another in the racing game ’DTM Experience’. During the on-stage talk on the ARD booth, Mike Rockenfeller and Gary Paffett talked to Norbert Haug about their chances in the remaining three races of the 2014 season. On Tuesday...
Early contact between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton put Mercedes on the back foot in Belgium, and once again, just as in Canada, it was Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo who was there to take advantage.
The 25-year-old took his third victory of the year - just one fewer than Rosberg - and, having won last time out in Hungary, he’s now done something the German hasn’t done this season - win two races in a row.
Ricciardo is the first Australian to win in Belgium since the late Jack Brabham triumphed at Spa-Francorchamps in 1960.
More importantly for Red Bull, Ricciardo’s success handed them their 50th victory in Formula One racing, just five years - and 103 races - after they won their first in China in 2009 with Sebastian Vettel at the wheel.
Adrian Newey, who contributed to 100 wins with Williams...