Bearclaw to buy boat with Qashqai cash

Here’s the Quickrelease.tv video from the Nissan Qashqai Urban Challenge Freeride Event held on 4-5th May in Newcastle upon Tyne. The YouTube vid is lo-res, stream the hi-res vodcast version from to your video iPod.

The two-day event was won by Darren ‘Bearclaw’ Berrecloth of Canada. He won 8000 Euros in the process and will be buying a boat with his winnings.

Twenty five invited riders took part in the event - including Kyle Strait, Andreu Lacondeguy, Gee Atherton (who knew he could 360?) and Christopher Hatton - and there were an estimated 10,000 spectators thronging Times Square, the central piazza at the Centre for Life.

Check out the video for Hatton’s attempted 360-tailwhip off of the drop, and his run down the ramp, nearly wiping me out…

Berrecloth won by spinning off the start ramp, tailwhipping the step-up and doing a 360 off the satellite dish straight into a 360-table off the final ramp, close to the double-helix statue.

1. Darren Berrecloth
2. Paul Basagoitia
3. Kyle Strait
4. Ben Boyko
5. Christopher Hatton
6. Grant Fielder
7. Amir Kabbani
8. Greg Watts
9. Gee Atherton
10.Andreu Lacondeguy
11.Brandon Semenuk
12.Lance McDermott