On The Pegs November 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 11 | Page 130

On The Pegs 130 DANIEL BLANC-GONNET town and to the Qualifying site. Team USA really shined in Qualifying. Maddie and Louise really rode fast and most importantly clan. Maddie has been in Europe all year and knows how to throw down a fast time. Louise has been tearing ass around the Marvel Universe shows and has picked up some speed. In the end they were 3rd and 4th fastest. An awesome result. The boys were next. Josh put down a fast lap for a Rookie (5th) that would have given us a good start time if something had hap- pened to Pat. Pat just plain smoked it. Fast, smooth and with and economy of mo- tion he beat the rest of the International Class by 2.5 seconds. His tail whip over the last obstacle and feet up slide in the last turn was a thing of beauty. Last year the FIM decided to run both Women’s and Men’s teams together on the same day. This causes some traffic problems during the event and some extra work for countries with both teams. Many countries have requested that we go back to the Women riding on Saturday and Men on Sunday. Let’s see if the FIM listens. The sun rose early on Sunday and the riders set off for a day on the rocks of Ibiza.