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Mar 25, 2025 | racer-ready.co.uk | Neil McQuoid

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Mar 14, 2025 | racer-ready.co.uk | Neil McQuoid

Great Britain are on track for just a second 4-man bobsleigh World Championship medal since the Second World War after the first of two days of racing in Lake Placid. Brad Hall, Arran Gulliver, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett are in third place ahead of Saturday’s final two runs as they look to repeat their medal winning feat from two seasons ago when they took silver to become the first 4-man team to make the podium in 84 years.

Mar 13, 2025 | racer-ready.co.uk | Neil McQuoid

As a prolific boot whisperer for half a century, Coomer made plastic perform without pain, then birthed custom insoles, silicone liners; his designs still resonate today. Ski boots remain the foundation of skiing, the most critical piece of gear—even if the explosion of ski shapes in the past quarter century has hogged all the headlines.

Mar 13, 2025 | racer-ready.co.uk | Neil McQuoid

"For me it's about winning races," Reece Howden says. "Getting on the podium is awesome but winning is that next level. "The points are good, the recognition is awesome, the prize money is substantially more. It's where I want to be.So I'll take the ups and downs if the highs are wins and the lows are deep lows." Howden was reflecting on the big pendulum swing of his results in Gudauri, the most recent stop of the FIS Ski Cross World Cup tour.

Mar 11, 2025 | racer-ready.co.uk | Neil McQuoid

Brad Hall and Taylor Lawrence finished sixth in the 2-man bobsleigh at the World Championships in Lake Placid on Sunday. The British pair climbed up from seventh after the first two runs on Saturday but were left with too much to do to challenge for the country’s first World Championship 2-man medal in 59 years. Hall and Lawrence were sixth fastest in each of their final two runs run as they clocked a four-run time of 3 minutes 41.97 seconds.