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After starting the season very unrewarding, returning to smile the Bavarians & nbsp; Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, who quest''oggi in Park City have dominated the third round of the World Cup luge tandem.
Saturday 12 December 2015 6 minutes reading time
The two "Bayern Express" finally managed to best express all their talent competing in two runs practically perfect, establishing from the start the best lap times the references and completing the 'work on the remaining section led the little-known plant of Utah. Just the experience of Wendl-Arlt accompanied dall''altrettanto great anger due to the blatant mistakes in Igls & nbsp; first and a & nbsp; Lake Placid & nbsp; then, were the two main factors which enabled the association of Bavaria to return to dominate as in better days. & nbsp;
The reigning world champions have in fact completed the first run with almost 2 tenths of a margin & nbsp; on the first beat, even further increasing their lead in the final closing down well with 475 milliseconds on runners. With this success, Wendl-Arlt & nbsp; is revived in the race for the Crystal Ball while achieving also the thirtieth career victory in the World Cup circuit, taking only 4 lengths from Leitner-Resch, twice pi & ugrave; winner ever in the top flight of the snowmobile. & nbsp;
Second place for the overall lead Eggert-Benecken quest''oggi that nothing could against the excessive power of the historic rivals. The duo of Thuringia & nbsp; can & ograve; still smile in key World Cup because & egrave; thanks to overtake operated in the final run against Penz-Fischler has lost only 15 points on the winners today, remaining firmly in command on the short list. & nbsp;
The podium & egrave; It was completed by Peter Penz and Georg Fischler that for the third consecutive race close in the top-three. The 'expert association biancorosso must complain to the disastrous second heat that with the tenth part time saw them move back one position compared to the previous run, although at the same time the two Tyrolean should thank Lady Luck & nbsp; that allowed him to & nbsp; save the podium by just one thousandth on overtime Gudramovics-Kalnins.
The Latvians were in fact the big surprise of the day & nbsp; by feeling the stretch & nbsp; fast dell''impianto American who allowed him to recover important thousandths on the rest of the competition and to win their best result ever in a competition of World Cup . Instead disappoint brothers Sics & nbsp; sixth, by which ones we would have expected a much more placement & ugrave; behind the podium
Race two faces & nbsp; for the Italian team, & nbsp; which in Park City & egrave; presented with only two crews: & nbsp; Oberstolz-Gruber and Rieder-Rastner. Also on this occasion the most & ugrave; faster of the two associations Blues & egrave; It was the one composed by veterans Christan Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber who finished in seventh place. The two experts from South Tyrol after a disappointing first run went on the rampage in the final heat sealing a positive fourth part time that allowed him to recover three positions. Another poor performance instead for Rieder-Rastner that after the 'initial acute Igls are back to sail in half & agrave; Ranking. The pi & ugrave; younger of the two Italian double ended it only tenth in accusing a lead of almost eight tenths off the pace.
The next round of the World Cup luge double & egrave; scheduled for tomorrow with the running of the first Sprint Race of the season.
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