Steve Peat is the venerable statesman of downhill racing. One of the most successful and perhaps more importantly, popular racers of all time. He is a big reason that the UK is so successful in downhill racing and has mentored many of the new breed of UK racers. At 35 he is now one of the oldest racers on the circuit and whilst being far from written off, it was felt that it was time for the likes of Gee Atherton and Brendan Fairclough to take over the reigns.
Anyway, after recently becoming a father for the second time, Steve is obviously as hungry as ever for competition and has taken back-to-back wins in the last 2 rounds of the 2009 UCI Downhill World cup.
We just want to add our congratulations, go Steve, a 2009 overall title? Wouldn't put it past him.
