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Red Bull Road Rage

Race details
Date	Various dates from May–November
Region	Varying locations: USA, Switzerland, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Latvia, Israel, Poland and Bosnia & Herzegovina
Local name(s)	Red Bull Road Rage
Nickname(s)	Road Rage
Discipline	Road
Competition	Open to amateurs and professionals
Type	Extreme downhill road racing
Organiser	Red Bull
History
First edition	2005 (2005)
Editions	12
First winner	Miles Rockwell (USA)
Most wins	Janos Köhler (IRL) 2
Most recent	David McCook (USA)

The Red Bull Road Rage is an extreme downhill on-road bike competition. The competition was first held in 2005 as a pro-invite only event, but since 2008 Red Bull has opened it up to amateur and professional racers. Red Bull Road Rage has seen editions held once in each Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Latvia, Israel, Poland and Bosnia & Herzegovina and twice in Switzerland and the USA.

The event is similar to Four-cross mountain biking but also call as bull rase. An initial individual time trial ITT qualifying and seeding run^{[n 1]} is held, followed by the top 32^{[n 2]} competitors racing four at a time in knock-out heats, with the two fastest progressing to the next round.

History

The roots of Red Bull Road Rage can be traced back to Jon Mesko of Giant Bicycles, who came up with the idea in 2001. He contacted the Red Bull (North America) Communications Manager, Paul Melina, in 2004 to pitch the idea and in January 2005, Red Bull gave the green light to commence organising the event.^[1]

2005

Tuna Canyon, Malibu, California, USA

The original Red Bull Road Rage was held down Tuna Canyon, Malibu in California, USA on 5 and 6 November 2005. The event was held on a 4.5 km course and included 49 bends with 390m elevation drop, giving an average gradient of 9.75% with a maximum of 18%.

Qualifying results

Final results

*Run only timed for first rider across the line. **No average speed can be calculated for these riders due to run only being timed for first placed rider.

2006

Tuna Canyon, Malibu, California, USA

In 2006 the event was set to return to Tuna Canyon, Malibu, California, scheduled for 11 November. 25 of the world's top professional racers from road and mountain biking were on the official start list.^[2] On 31 October following evaluation of the then fire danger conditions, the decision was made to cancel the event due to fire safety concerns from the Malibu City fire chief.^[3]

2007

No Red Bull Road Rage was held in 2007.

2008

Gurnigelpass, Switzerland

In 2008 Red Bull Road Rage was held again, this time for the first time in Europe. It was also the first time the event was opened up to amateur and professional riders. The event was held on a 3.8 km course with 340m elevation drop, descending the Gurnigelpass in Switzerland. Average gradient was 8.95% with a maximum of 18%.

Qualifying results

Final results

*Run not timed. **No average speed can be calculated due to run not being timed.

2009

For the first time, 2009 saw multiple events held across Europe, with a total of four races. Three new venues were added including Italy, France and Germany and the season finale saw a return to racing in Switzerland.

Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy

The 2009 Red Bull Road Rage season opener was held for the first time in Italy, on 21 and 22 June 2009. The event was held on a 5 km course with 360m elevation drop, descending into Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Dolomites. Average gradient was 7.4% with a maximum of 12%.^[4]

Qualifying results

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