Lošinj, an island in the northern Adriatic Sea, currently hosts a UCI Cat 1 race but is hoping to go one bigger in 2018. Having applied in August to be picked as the location to host the UCI Downhill World Cup in 2018, with a detailed track review completed by the UCI in September, the island of Lošinj now must wait until the final decision will be announced in January 2017, reports Dirt on 8 December 2016.
The venue is said to have resembled that of Cairns as it’s right by the sea and doesn’t have a chairlift. The track itself is Mediterranean - classicly rocky, dusty and loose.
The 1.9km track has 250 metres of altitude and takes about 2:30 for the fastest cyclists, making it even shorter than Windham, but it does have an urban finish, which would make it totally unique.
