{"id":6361,"date":"2020-03-05T11:34:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T10:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/43ride.com\/en\/?p=6361"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:42:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:42:58","slug":"strait-and-kintner-on-top-after-wild-and-loose-100-dual-slalom-at-crankworx-rotorua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/43ride.com\/en\/events\/2020\/strait-and-kintner-on-top-after-wild-and-loose-100-dual-slalom-at-crankworx-rotorua\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait and Kintner on top after wild and loose 100% Dual Slalom at Crankworx Rotorua"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Standing in the finish corral having bested a stacked field of some of the world\u2019s fastest and most skilled riders, Kyle Strait (USA) could still barely believe he\u2019d managed to tame the new\u00a0100% Dual Slalom Rotorua\u00a0track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still feel like I don\u2019t know how to ride it. I honestly am kind of baffled. I always kind of know that I can do well in Slalom and it\u2019s something I really enjoy. I struggled all practice, and qualifying was a struggle as well. I qualified seventh, so I wasn\u2019t quite off the back but a little bit off. So it would play tricks in my head, like \u2018No, no, it doesn\u2019t matter. You\u2019ve just got to go through the rounds and put everything you have into it every single round.\u2019 So I kept doing that and making huge mistakes, but I kept being able to make it through each round just by the tiniest amount. Somehow it worked out in the end.<\/p>– Kyle Strait<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Kyle Strait \/ photo: Kike Abelleira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The win came after a wild night of head-to-head racing that saw chains snap, riders go OTB and gates get missed, all while riders tried to pick up speed when possible and dump it when necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new track is awesome. It\u2019s probably one of the best on the circuit right now. It\u2019s really, really technical. Technical in the way that every single run is kind of different, and if you try and go too fast, it\u2019s going to throw you on your ass. So, it\u2019s really hard but I enjoyed riding it.<\/p>– Kyle Strait<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Bas van Steenbergen \/ photo: Kike Abelleira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was a sentiment echoed by Jill Kintner (USA) who was fired up after her second win in two days, having beaten Casey Brown (CAN) in both rounds of the pro women\u2019s finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was crazy because it started out really packed in and really nice and then started deteriorating and deteriorating, and the flat corners were really kind of the breaking point a lot of times. You can\u2019t override it, you can\u2019t come in too fast. You just have to be really patient and look for the next gate. So it\u2019s easy to mess up and easy to be impatient, especially in a race. It was a nice mix of challenging features.<\/p>– Jill Kintner<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

2020 marks Kintner\u2019s return to Crankworx competition. After winning the Queen of Crankworx for the third straight year in 2018, she took a brief hiatus for most of 2019 to race Enduro. In 2020 she\u2019s committed to the full Crankworx World Tour once again. Two competitions deep, Queen of Crankworx points stacking up, her eyes are clearly on the prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n