We're stoked to bring you a race report from the IGSA Hautacam Pass race that took place in September .  We've also got the article in the author's native tongue, here.

Great race at the Hautacam pass on 16/17 september 2006 for the final of the French Championship. Hautacam is located near Lourdes, in the Pyrénées. 

The event was organized by the Bordeaux Longskate Club (BLC), and was the first competition for the club after two years of "freeriding" the location. And the weather wasn’t really accommodating with the organization because all the race needed to be set up in one day ! We had rain and fog all day on Saturday.  Fortunately,  at 1500m of altitude there was a bar : "le Tramassel". Consequently all the day we kept  our spirits up with French wine...

French riders Adrien Barat and Jean-Baptiste Debure, followed by the Swiss Yvon Labarthe, won the Stand-up category. 

All the racing was set in one day for all the disciplines : Stand-up, Streetluge, Buttboard, roller-skating and skullboard : Training and qualifications in the morning, finals in the afternoon, for 70 riders.

Everyone finished in le Tramassel late in the evening with all the prizes ceremony for the race and the french championship, won this year by the rider of normandy, Jean-Baptiste Debure aka Jibo. 

Thanks to all the BLC, Dieter Fleisher and Cyrille Harnay for the race !

Photos credit : CND (www.descente.fr) and Domnique Gilly from the BLC. 

Official website of the race : www.hautacam2006.com 

Website of the organization association, Bordeaux Longskate Club

Complete results can be downloaded here

For more pics you can check the Descente.fr gallery at this address : http://www.descente.fr/index.php?option=com_expose&Itemid=57

Special thanks to Jean-Sébastien, for bringing this IGSA Race Report to us!  For complete rules and additional information on the IGSA and gravity racing sports go to http://www.gravity-sports.com.