Pat Schep wins St. Sau
St. Sauveur was the third race in Fast Freddy’s Street Missile race series. It’s one of the more intense races on the beginner friendly circuit and drew a good crowd from the U.S. I was bummed that I missed the Black Top outlaw two weeks prior that also got an American crew across the border but was stoked to get back up north for this race.
photos: Olivier Seguin-Leduc
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Street Missile events are all run in a jam format and include downhill, slope style, streetluge, and slalom. The run was rather short with a fast accelerating straight into a right hairpin and then a left 90 that puts you on the edge of traction. It’s not the most intense race you’ll ever find but sliding into the right inches from your friends is definitely a good time. This year the event was even more fun because it started in the afternoon and went until almost midnight.
The fun started around 5pm with slalom set by the Rockin Rookie which he ended up winning followed by local ripper Sam C. and Matt K on his downhill board. After the cones were picked up the ramps were moved onto the course for slopestyle. There were a lot of guys throwing down big airs and long slides getting super stylish. Andrew from Ottawa took home the win with some massive hard wheel slides sending the flat spot shivers down everyones spine. By this point it was starting to get dark and the lugers were going to be run in a Chinese downhill fashion since there were so few. The gnarliest part was seeing Dimm Komarov in a wife beater and purple tights buttboarding his speedboard in the middle of a pack of metal luges with leathered up pilots. Tim Koch took home the win with luge.
When we started speedboard heats it was pitch black out and the lighting situation was not what you would call ideal. Essentially you kicked out of the light into a dark straight that you could sort of gauge by large white arrows painted on the road and by the last one you needed to think about predrifting. You would slide from the darkness into an incredibly bright, spot lighted right then back into darkness until the left where there was a streetlight. It was mayhem and the goofy footers had the serious advantage. The finals ended up being all about PerU.S.A. with Americans Pat Schep (Earthwing) and Keith “The Caveman” Rebhorn (Comet) and the Peruvian Javier Palomino. Pat S. hit the money line followed inches behind by Javier and the Caveman.
It was a super fun event preceded and followed by some incredibly fun freeriding on super gnarly technical hills and is an event all East Coasters should look into for next year. Thanks to Fast Freddy and Street Missile for putting on the event and the sponsors Kebbek skateboards and Performance Board Shop.
Full Results:
SLALOM
1 ROOKIE 9.52
2 SAM C. 9.70
3 MATT K. 9.82
4 SIMON 9.89
5 ANTONY 9.93
6 GAB VIEL 9.94
7 NIKO 10.11
8 MICHAEL R. 10.30
9 LUDO 10.35
10 PAT S. 10.36
11 JFT 10.39
12 MAX R. 10.40
13 JAVIER 10.41
14 BEN L. 10.43
15 JOEL O. 10.52
16 KEITH R. 10.61
17 MAX LAF 10.65
18 NICK G. 10.89
19 ETIENNE RM. 10.97
SLOPESTYLE
1 ANDREW C.
2.MATT K.
3 SAM C.
4 BEN L.
5 GAB V.
6 KEITH R.
7 MAX LAF
8 JOEL O.
9 JAVIER
10 DIMM
11 JFT
12 ETIENNE RM
13 MAX B.
14 MICHAEL R.
15 MAX R.
16 PAT S.
17 ANTONY
18 NICK G.
STREETLUGE
1 TIM K.
2 MARTIN E.
3 DIMM
4 JAVIER
5 BOT
6 ERIC B.
7 JEAN GAB
DOWNHILL SKATEBOARD
1 PAT SCHEP (USA)
2 JAVIER PALOMINO (PERU)
3 KEITH REBORN (USA)
4 DIMITRI KOMAROV (RUSSIA)
5 FLAVIEN VIDAL (FRANCE)
6 MATTEW KIENZLE (CANADA)
7 BEN LAVOIE (CANADA)
8 LUDO (CAN)
9 NICK G (USA)
10 ANTONY F. (USA)
11 MICHAEL R. (USA)
12 MAX LAF (CAN)
13 JFT (CAN)
14 MAX B.
15 TIM K.
16 JEAN GAB
17 ETIENNE RM
18 JOEL O.
19 MAX R.
20 MARTIN
DNF ERIC B
DNF JML
DNF DENIS L.
