Roger Vieira: A true privateer World Cup downhill story, NEVER giving up.
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Roger Vieira is in studio to share his incredible story! In this episode of The Ride Companion, Roger joins us in the studio to talk about his journey from growing up in Brazil to chasing the World Cup Downhill dream as a full on privateer. He opens up about the financial realities of racing, why his first ever World Cup at Fort William lead him to take a year off, and whether it's even possible to compete as a privateer after the recent changes.
We also dive into Roger's new found success on the Red Bull Cerro Abajo circuit, what it takes to go fast on an urban race course, his bike setup secrets, what the future looks like for the wildest series in MTB, Red Bull Hardline and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | If you say to someone, I come race a World Cup, you wouldn't say to them to come to |
| 0:03.4 | Fort Wayne to race their first World Cup, would you? |
| 0:05.3 | Quite something to get used to, yeah. |
| 0:06.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:06.9 | Yeah. It's probably the Nileless track to like race for the first time. |
| 0:19.8 | All right, before we drop out on this episode with Roger Vieira, I wanted to stop by and let you know that the race companion is now live. |
| 0:28.4 | All right, the race... |
| 0:29.1 | We're ready for the season. |
| 0:32.9 | It's exciting. |
| 0:34.7 | Yeah, so the race companion has had an all- face lift. We've got a brand new website, |
| 0:39.6 | improved gameplay, new sponsors, exciting prizes. You can create leagues with your friends. |
| 0:45.7 | It's the ultimate fantasy mountain bike platform. All right, it's, it's a thing now. It really |
| 0:53.0 | is. It's race season coming in hot |
| 0:55.2 | race season's coming in hot it's time to set your teams create a league with your friends and |
| 0:59.6 | have some fun with the ucii downill world cup season plus we're going to be running some |
| 1:04.2 | special games for red bull hardline and also rampage but you're not even going to know about |
| 1:09.2 | them if you don't head over and sign up so the theracecompanion.com, sign up, play for free, and have some fun with the race season. Is that the racecompanion.com? It's the racecom. I've already got my picks. My team is ready. I'm going for the win. We'll see you there. We are on today's guest. |
| 1:28.4 | He's a World Cup racer. |
| 1:29.5 | You've seen him race, |
| 1:30.4 | Hardline in Tasmania, |
| 1:31.8 | and he's fresh of a third place finish |
| 1:34.1 | at the Red Bull Serra Tobacco in Guanojato. |
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