Click the arrows on Gwin's post for some race footage

Results



Pro Men



1st. Aaron Gwin - 01:33.33 + 01:33.05 = 03:06.38

2nd. Steve Walton - 01:36.81 + 01:33.52 = 03:10.33

3rd. Steven Cisar - 01:45.20 + 01:42.22 = 03:27.42

4th. Bryce Stroud - 01:46.85 + 01:44.15 = 03:31.00

5th. Bryce Helbling - 01:47.31 + 01:45.25 = 03:32.56





Pro Women



1st. Flora Lesoin - 02:07.36 + 02:02.01 = 04:09.37

2nd. Jordan Scott - 02:08.54 + 02:04.86 = 04:13.40

3rd. McKenna Merten - 02:13.88 + 02:13.93 = 04:27.81





Aaron Gwin has started off his Intense career with a comfortable win at Round 4 of the Southridge winter race series at Fontana.It was Gwin's first public outing on the Intense M29 and he won the overall race by four seconds. The Southridge format uses a combined time of two runs to decide the winner, Gwin was the fastest man in both runs, beating KHS's Steve Walton by 3.5 seconds in his first run and 0.5 seconds in his second. French World Cup racer, Flora Lesoin, won the women's race.The race was run at Fontana and features a rocky, techy top section that runs into a pedal section and then a final flowy dart of singletrack. A helmet cam is below:This result is spookily reminiscent of when Gwin first joined the YT Mob back in 2016. His first race on that team was also Round 4 of the Southridge Winter Series, which he won by 0.15 seconds from a KHS rider, Logan Binggelli. He went on to win the first round of the World Cup in Lourdes and his third World Cup title, is this a sign of things to come?Full results can be found here