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Watch Pol Tarrés Break Another Guinness World Record on His Yamaha

Pol Tarrés is a person, fantasy, and legend who’s used to having his achievements measured in titles, championships, podiums, and medals. He holds accolades such because the 2011 Trial Junior World Champion and took fifth on the 2022 Africa Eco Race. But he added a brand new success metric to the checklist again in 2020: toes.

Aboard a Yamaha Tenere 700 on March 14th, 2020, he set a twin-cylinder ADV motorcycle Guinness World Record by using to an altitude of 20,202 toes on the slopes of the Andes’ Cerro Mercedario. Since then, he is added two extra altitude information to the checklist.

Two More Records

Tarrés straddled a Yamaha YZ450FX to 22,165 toes on March sixth, 2024, as he ascended the world’s highest energetic volcano, the Ojos Del Salado, which is situated in Chile. By doing so, Tarrés put his identify within the Guinness Book of World Records as soon as extra, this time for setting an altitude report aboard a wheeled machine.

 

Instead of resting on his laurels, Tarrés descended the volcano and ready to experience up it once more the very subsequent day. But this time, he’d be piloting a motorbike greater than twice the load of his YZ450FX as he went again to his trusty Yamaha Tenere 700 World Raid.

Less than 24 hours after cementing his identify within the report books, on March seventh, Tarrés clicked his Tenere 700 World Raid into first to ascend the volcano as soon as extra. He did not cease using till he reached an altitude of 21,909 toes, breaking his personal ADV altitude report from 2020 by 1,707 toes. The feat is unimaginable, however how Tarrés entered the report books this time is much more spectacular.

When Tarrés broke the ADV bike altitude report in 2020, he used an oxygen tank, which he stored in his backpack. Even with this, because of the low oxygen ranges and monumental bodily process, he burned round 20,000 energy per day using towards the altitude report. But this time, he did not use an oxygen tank—he was naturally aspirated. This man is our sort of loopy.

 

Watch Him Do It

When Tarrés set the primary report in 2020, a movie crew recorded the entire thing and turned it right into a 19-minute-long documentary.

Thankfully, There was a movie crew with him once more this time, and we are able to look ahead to one other documentary someday within the close to future.

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‘BMW Data Coach’ available as World Championships begin on house soil: German lugers in Altenberg once more counting on digital optimisation of racing line and materials.

Munich/Altenberg. This Friday sees the beginning of the 52nd FIL Luge World Championships in Altenberg (GER), supported by BMW as predominant companion. In entrance of a house crowd, the German crew is aiming to construct on its spectacular file of successes at main occasions. In this respect, the BSD has been counting on assist from expertise companion BMW since 2010. In luging, the expertise switch from automotive analysis, growth and manufacturing focuses on data-driven optimisation of the complicated system of luge, athlete, and racing line.

The ‘BMW Data Coach’ consists of sensors put in within the coaching sleds. These measure a variety of dynamic information relating to longitudinal and lateral velocity, acceleration and yaw charges, and ship high-resolution recordings. The sensors work in tandem with bespoke evaluation software program for information analysis, which might exactly reconstruct every run. This expertise has lengthy been a longtime a part of motor racing and the BMW Group and the BSD have been working to refine its utility for luging since 2016. Thanks to the evaluation of quite a few runs on one and the identical observe, the steadily rising trove of knowledge delivers more and more correct insights into the best materials and the quickest particular person racing line – in addition to revealing dependencies on exterior situations.

The software program has been developed and optimized by a number of Junior World Luge Champion Dr. Julian von Schleinitz, who advantages from his expertise as an athlete and his experience as an information scientist on the BMW Group. At any second between the beginning and end of a run, the ‘BMW Data Coach’ is ready to present the on-track place of the luge, the velocity, acceleration, steering actions, drift and rather more. It can even examine this information with different runs. “This allows us to recognise even the most minor steering errors and identify the ideal racing line, the most promising material and the perfect luge set-up,” says von Schleinitz. “Getting the set-up just right and staying on the ideal line become more crucial for longer ice channels – and this year’s World Championship track in Altenberg is very long.”

Objective evaluation reveals that the best line and the perfect materials might not be the identical for each athlete. Nonetheless, evaluating datasets for 2 athletes is what results in additional key insights. Multiple Olympic and world champion Felix Loch has been working with the ‘BMW Data Coach’ for a while and Max Langenhan, at present topping the general World Cup standings, began to make use of the expertise this season. “The fact that Max and I are working together benefits us both,” says Loch. “We can watch our races together on the computer in the most minute detail, which allows us to spot the best racing line and compare our materials.”

Data collected to date reveals that Langenhan and Loch are following barely totally different racing strains in Altenberg. These variations have been analysed in simulations forward of the World Championships, permitting the athletes to attract their particular person conclusions.

“Altenberg is a very sophisticated and varied track with a host of technical aspects. You can lose a lot of time between turn 1 and turn 18,” says Langenhan. “That makes it all the more important to stay on the ideal line for the whole run and stamp out the little slips that you might not even notice on the luge, but which are clear for all to see in the data. The BMW Data Coach is already working like a world champion, and now we just have to turn that into results.”

Today’s dash races will present the primary alternative to do exactly that. Saturday will function the medal races for the lads’s singles and ladies’s and males’s doubles. The World Championships wrap up on Sunday with the ladies’s singles and the crew relay.

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THE WEEKLY FEED: AKE JONSSON THROUGH THE YEARS • EPIC ENDURO VIDEO • BILLY BOLT-CAPTURED

Ake Jonsson through the years

Åke Jonsson was a top GP athlete in the Motocross World Championships during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Jonsson was in the hunt three times to win the World Championship title- 1968, 1970 and  in 1971. He rode for the Husqvarna factory but he was the third man behind World Champions Bengt Aberg and Torsten Hallman, though he finished in third place in the 1968 500cc World Championship. The next year he switched to Maico, taking third place in the 1970 500cc World Championship and then winning the Inter-AM series in America.

Photo courtesy of MXA, Ake in his Husqvarna days.
Racing his square barrel Maico in the U.S., this was at Ascot Park.

1971 was Ake’s best racing year. He held a tiny lead over Roger DeCoster going into the last GP of the year. DeCoster passed him when his spark plug came out of the head and ended up winning the World Championship.

1972 wasn’t a great year until the USA’s Trans AMA Motocross series where Ake dominated winning 9 races in a row at one point. Yamaha hired Ake for the 1973 season and his mount was the new single shock  “monoshock” machine. Ake had issues dealing with the fork, especially coming off of a Maico, which had the best front suspension in motocross. Ake fit a Maico front end onto his Yamaha much to the chagrin of his bosses, but felt that he was at too much of deficit with the stock fork. Ake never could overcome injuries and the handling quirks of the Yamaha. He retired at the end of the 1976 season.

Ake had issues switching to the Yamaha machine. He tested both the new Monoshock, and in this photo standard Thermal Flow dampers with a Maico front end.
His big-bore Works Yamaha, Maico forked and rear Monoshock suspension had the handling closer to what he liked. His big issue was with the power character of the machine. Unlike the tractable power of the Maico, the Yamaha hit hard and violently.
This Ake rendition must have driven the Yamaha factory nuts. He fit his factory motor and tank onto a modified Maico frame, fork and rear suspension and fit it with a downpipe.
Back on the single shock Yamaha in 1975, Ake fit it with a downpipe exhaust in an attempt to smooth out the power.
Ake’s last year racing GPs was in 1976, and he was back on a Maico.

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Tennessee Knockout Hard Enduro Recap: This is a fun look at the event featuring a number of classes.

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This is a Mario Roman highlights vid from the hairball Red Bull Outliers. Good stuff!

Husqvarna’s Billy Bolt attacking one of the giant climbs at the Red Bull Outliers Hard Enduro in Canada. Photo: Future7Media

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