Tag: 2024
Day 5 – Simon Oberrauner Winner of the X-Pyr 2024
In another epic end to the race, and after sharing so many hours and memories together with Shane Tighe these lasts hours, finally it was Simon Oberrauner who won this first “after Chrigel Maurer” X-Pyr.
The Austrian won his first X-Pyr and was in the top positions for most of the race. The final time has been 2d 11:52:48.
In the end, Simon was in goal 40 minutes before Christian Schugg, who in a fantastic move overtook the other 2 pilots who were in front: Shane Tighe and Pierre Remy.
Christian followed a different line to everybody else, more to the north, more flyable. And finally, he landed very close to goal. Third and fourth respectively were Shane and Remy.
William Pierré, Jean de Biolley and Maël Baguet were the other three that completed the race this 5th day.
It seems this year we are going to see many happy pilots swimming off the beach of El Port de la Selva, as we still have 2 days more to reach the Mediterranean. And most of the pilots have already crossed the final turnpoint Vall de Nuria.
We are expecting the next pilot in goal to be Lars Meerstetter, before 8am tomorrow!
Day 4 – Tricky day, but Vall de Núria reached
A very unstable day with good flying conditions in the morning, and developments and thunderstorms in the early afternoon.
The pilots on the south side of the Pyrenees managed to make some great flights and gain many kilometres thanks to the instability, although there were many tense moments due to the storms.
Simon Oberrauner and Shane Tighe were the only pilots who signed in Nuria under the first drops of the storm.
In the French zone they were not so lucky as most of the riders were caught in the storms before they could cross, Sebrand Warren and Ben Hodgson were the only riders to make it.
