The title of this video is The Fastest Downhill Run Ever. I don’t know if that is true, but oh my god does it look dangerous to go this fast on a mountain bike through the streets of Genoa. (It looks slightly less nuts in the non-POV, but not by much.)
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I totally expected to see gold rings floating above one of those ramps.
If you zoom in on the POV footage it looks slower due to the "Train cab illusion"
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10515532/
My grandparents are from Genoa. Last year my brothers and I did a little pilgrimage there to explore our roots. That Red Bull race started at the top of the funicular that runs through the town. For exercise I walked up and back down that course every day we were there. Some of the sections were steep and full of moss, which made walking sketchy. Chapeau to the riders!
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