Jonny Walker Wins Hell’s Gate Hard Enduro
Cycle News Staff | February 15, 2015
Jonny Walker deals with the wet and cold conditions during the Hell’s Gate Hard in Italy. Photography by Future7Media
Great Britain’s Jonny Walker not only survived but also won one of the most difficult editions ever of the Hell’s Gate Hard Enduro in the Tuscan Mountains near Lucca, Italy, February 14. Nasty weather conditions, which included rain and snow, made this year’s event one to remember.
“That’s the hardest race I’ve ever done,” the Red Bull KTM Team rider said after the race.
Mario Roman and Lars Enoeckl made it an all-KTM podium in an event where the original field of just over 100 was trimmed down to just 14 eligible for the final race up the dreaded Hell’s Peak.
Walker went into the lead in the afternoon/evening final towards the end of the opening lap. From then on he managed to control the race to be in front at the summit. Roman and the Austrian, Enoeckl, were locked in a two-way battle throughout the race but Roman took over second at the bottom of the final climb.
Graham Jarvis, who went into the event having won the previous four editions, withdrew not long after having drowned his motorcycle in the Cascata waterfall section.
Hell’s Gate 2015
Results
1, Jonny Walker, GBR, KTM
2, Mario Roman, ESP, KTM
3, Lars Enoeckl, AUT, KTM
