One rider would become the first to take three wins at Red Bull Hardline, and with that, you can probably guess who it was.
Bernard Kerr made himself the man to beat at Red Bull Hardline with a precise, attacking style that saw him come down a second ahead of Laurie Greenland, with Kade Edwards not far behind him. Brage Vestavik would have to settle for fourth again.
The racing was hard and fast from the start, with early benchmark times laid down by Josh Lowe and Lewis Buchanan. Adam Brayton. The four-time Hardline veteran threatened the top position mid-way through the race but it was Matteo Iniguez who was the man to beat for the first hour. The former Junior Downhill World Champion Kade Edwards then went 1.7 seconds up, before Laurie Greenland increased the gap further, holding first place until Bernard Kerr, who was last down the hill, started his run.
Second place Laurie Greenland improved on his results from previous years to take second. “We’re mid-way through the season, my head is in that race zone so I just went for it. The whole course, the features, and the wind this weekend meant that I had to be headstrong. Red Bull Hardline really is gnarly but it’s been a great week with the rest of the guys, and along with the crazy racing it’s been a welcome break”.
“Red Bull Hardline is totally different to every other race,” said third-place Kade Edwards. “I’ve been racing for a couple of years and I’m still getting my head around it. I felt a bit more comfortable than in previous years but you never get used to it. Third feels amazing, I can’t believe it, I didn’t expect that for sure”.
For this year’s event, Red Bull has been proud to collaborate with Trash Free Trails, a community-focused, non-profit organisation with a mission to protect our trails and the wild places they take us. In the first collaboration from a planned long-term partnership, Red Bull Hardline 2021 has been the first major event to pilot the TFT Approved scheme, an independent self-certification toolkit, that aims to empower and enable organisers to deliver events to the highest possible standards in terms of sustainability.
