Erzberg Rodeo 2023 - Battle of the Titans - Hare Scramble Extended Highlights

The heat at the Hard Enduro World Championship 2023 season moved to Eisenerz, Austria, for Rd2 the Erzberg Rodeo 2023, aka “The Iron Giant”. Racing week started with two heats of Iron Road Prologue on Friday and Saturday during which more than 1200 riders hit the ridiculously fast track and tried to set the best time possible. The only surprise was that Graham Jarvis couldn’t make it to the first row and had to start with second fifty. At 12:00 sharp first row took start and roared into the mine for Hare Scramble. Main race was a 35km single track in and around the Iron Giant for all 500 riders who are qualified to race it and they had 4h to reach to the finish line. Billy Bolt had a heartbreaking crash at the first hill and lost almost all places which meant a great work of recovery ahead of him. It was Enduro GP’s Andrea Verona with his 4T Gas Gas Factory who led the early stages with tiny margins against KTM’s Trystan Hart and Manuel Lettenbichler. Verona lost against hard enduro chall