Verbier Cow Fighting 20th 21st April 2013

Posted on April 1, 2013 by admin

The end of the season approaches here in Verbier, but one of the best days out is the annual trip to the cow fighting down is Orsieres.

Now don’t worry this is not man vs cow, this is cow vs cow (no knives, no horses, no hair pulling) . And as this is a Swiss event there are more wine stalls, cheese stands than cows, all at valais prices!

Now to get there….

Option 1 Cable car to Le Chable – Train to Orsieres (ok you change at Sembrancher), but time the trip back if you want the last cable car back to Verbier (or jump on the bus from Le Chable to Verbier)

Option 2 Get a group together phone MayTaxi….

Option 3 Drive to Orsieres – Down the hill to Sembrancher, turn left as if you are going to the Grand St Bernard, after 15 minutes turn off to Orsieres. (but remember this is a Swiss day out slugging wine and cheese).

Option 4 Sit at home playing the PS 3

Phillipe Roux Sports Verbier Ice Karting

Posted on March 29, 2013 by admin

Verbier’s Phillipe Roux sports team night out ice karting with Karting Extreme Verbier.

The guys and girls from Phillipe Roux Sports booked their end of season fun with Karting Extreme Verbier. Now, this was always going to be a competitive night, with some of the local rally/ski champions working with Philliple Roux Sports.

Kart sur Glace Philippe Roux Sports Verbier

Equipe Philippe Roux Sports Verbier Kart sur glace a Karting Extreme Verbier

Hot favourite to win the night’s racing was Phillipe Roux and his co pilot Mélanie Roux, or Mike Coppens sand his co pilot Christophe Roux (Normally found racing a Citroen DS3), and yes I had to have a race with them…

Mike Coppens drifting the inside line!

(above) Mélanie Roux drifting around the ice track in Verbier.

With the practise session over, it was going to be a close race between Phillipe and Mike, but the seasoned rally driver Phillipe Roux set the fastest lap of the night, much to Mike’s frustration. Phillipe did a 20.020 lap and somehow didn’t spin during any of the races (watch the video below to see the race action).

The lap record for the Ice rink is help by Florian Gonon with a time of 19.20…

WRC Sebastian Loeb to race in Rallye du Chablais

Posted on March 8, 2013 by admin

WRC Super star Sebastian Loeb to race in Rallye du Chablais 2013. Le Matin and the Rallye du Chablais are reporting that Sebastian will enter the rally in his WRC rally car.

Rally dates 30th-31st-May -1st June.

Again this year the main service park will be in the area of Lavey de Baines

Check out the rally web site for more details http://www.rdch.ch/site/

Official press release

WRC Sebastian Loeb racing at Karting Extreme Verbier

Posted on February 26, 2013 by admin

Citroen’s World Rally Champion Sebastian Loeb made a visit to Karting Extreme Verbier.

Half term in Verbier and we have a very special WRC World champion racing in Verbier St Bernard, yes that’s the 9 times WRC World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb fresh from rally Sweden.

Now that’s not something you get to see every day, a multiple World Rally Champion racing our Extreme ice karts with friends here in Verbier….

The Verbier ice kart race night started with the normal practise session in our Extreme Ice karts, followed by a few races for the group, in the dark!!!

Sebastian Loeb is the one on top of our 4 meter high banked corner (above).

We attached a Gopro to Seb’s karts so we could see up close how a WRC champion drives our ice karts at night time.

Race 1 Sebastian started from the back of the pack and worked his way through the group to win the race setting his best lap time of 21.521 (the ice was soft from all the sun so that lap time is good for the conditions). The Karting Extreme Verbier lap record is 21.420 by Kev (the owner of Karting Extreme Verbier)..The fastest public driver so far this winter is Kevin Gaudin 21.871

Race 2 Sebastian started form the front row, and soon started pulling away but a spin on the second lap on our 4 meter high banked corner cost Sebastian dearly (no super rally rules here) Seb rejoined the race in last place and started working through the pack. As the chequered flag went down Sebastian Loeb finished in second place with Sebastian’s friend taking the win.

Huge thanks to Annie for organising the night…

Good luck with the rest of the season Seb.

Verbier | Ski Alternative Extreme Ice Kart

Posted on January 16, 2013 by admin

Verbier test day for the new Ski Alternative Extreme Ice kart, at Karting Extreme Verbier.

The new Ski Alternative Ice Kart

Ski Alternative specialises in everything but skiing and snowboarding in and around Verbier. Ice Karting, Cheese Tasting and Husky Dog Sledging, Yoga, Snow shoeing and event management etc.

Ice Karting – Corporate Events in Verbier

Thanks John for your support again this year..

Verbier | Disabled Ice Karting night at Karting Extreme Verbier

Posted on December 11, 2012 by admin

Last week we witnessed something rather special at Karting Extreme Verbier….. Yes a group of disabled skiers booked an evening of ice karting with us!!

Now we had a million questions about running the night, but we can report what a sucess the night was with these guys!

Pictured below are the guys and girls with their guides (Guides in Red).

Now seven of guys are blind!. Yes Blind!!!

How do they do extreme ice karting you ask? Simple, using the same technique for skiing and sledging, they have a little radio and the guide gives them directions.

What a great night with one of the guys setting a lap of 19.990, the lap record is 19.200.

So the next time you or I complain about bad weather, or a bruise think about what these guys do with their disabilities..

Huge thanks to Harry and the boys/Girls for helping run the night.

Verbier opens for the winter 24th November | Verbier opening

Posted on November 19, 2012 by admin

Verbier is Go Go Go. (Said in a Murray Walker, OBE accent)…

Yes it’s that time of year where Verbier opens for the winter 2012/13. As of the 24th November the Verbier lifts will open 7 days a week (limited lifts only).

The following lifts will be operational as of the 24th November.

Télécabine Le Châble – Verbier from 8h40 to 16h45 (access to the domain)
Télécabine Verbier – Les Ruinettes de 8h45 à 16h15 (access to the domain, slopes closed)

Verbier Boarding and Skiing:

Funispace and Télésiège Attelas II
Télésiège Lac 1
The ski slopes Lac des Vaux and Attelas

To prove winter is here the best Apres bar in town, The Fer a Cheval will open its doors on the 23rd November, just in time to welcome the Army boys into town!!

With cold weather forecast for this weekend maybe winter has finally arrivied in Verbier…

Let the Karting Extreme Verbier snow cannons commence blowing!!!

La Suisse bouge| Karting_Extreme_Verbier

Posted on November 16, 2012 by admin

Check out Karting Extreme Verbier in the winter edition of “Bouger”..

And yes Marco it’s your daughter up on the snowbank again…

Looking for that special Christmas day present….Give Karting Extreme Verbier a shout

What’s new in Verbier this Winter 2012 – 2013 | KartingExtremeVerbier.com

Posted on November 1, 2012 by admin

So another year goes by in Verbier and what’s changed for the Verbier 2012 – 2013 winter season. New restaurants, new lifts, new gym, new chalet rental companies, new owners of Public/Cashbah. And the ski lifts are opening this weekend 2nd November.

The first opening party is the La Channe – 17th November

The ATeam opens in new premises (By Alp food) 02/11/2012

Le Rouge opens Wednesday 7th November 2012

Le Pub Mont Fort opens 2nd November 2012

The Lounge (Farinet hotel) opening TBC

Hotel Farinet Après ski bar opens Mid December (Once the renovation is complete)

Le Dahu will open as soon as there is enough snow to ski to it.

La Vache (The old powder spirit bar) opens ………..(TBC)

Karting Extreme Verbier is open on the Ice Rink, the outdoor track should be open mid Dec.

Fer a Cheval will open for the weekend of the 23rd November

JC’s bar – Name TBC (the old Casita) will open early December as a Sushi bar.
Other Verbier news

Casbah has gone and has been replaced by the trendy The Pot Luck Club.

La Ruinettes restaurant is opening under new management.

The Ice Cube (At La Ruinettes) is under new managment, Zak from the Sandwhich bar is now running the Ice Cube with our lovely Jo Swannell finally getting a day light job!

The Loft is open again this year, so yes another closing party for Kevin and the boys..

Quintessential Estate office has closed, and is now called ROCKEFELLER ESTATES run by Annable Waite.

The famous Offshore restaurant/bar by Medran has been sold, and will be under new ownership for this winter.

La Ruinnette, in Le Chable, is now open and is taking weekly bookings in what was the old Max and Milly’s Bed and Breakfast.

The Wholey Cow. At last we have a new gym function room to do exercise, from circuit training, pilates, yoga and something that the owner won’t tell us about.

New Bruson ski lift is finally approved – Should be ready for the 2013 winter season.

Snow cannons on Savoleyres. Work is on going to get water up to Savoleyres to finally give our racers some hard snow to race train on. (they are also putting snow cannons closer to Le Rouge.

Bonjour! – The first intensive French course of the Verbier winter season is on from the 5th until the 16th of November from 10.00 until 12.00. The price is 180.- per week (or 36.- per day). Contact VLS if you’re interested: info@verbierlanguageschool.com or call them (0041) 079 693 49 85.

Rallye International du Valais Day 2

Posted on October 26, 2012 by admin

End of day two in the Rallye International du Valais sees the Verbier based Annie Spiers Rallye team with Florian Gonon and Sandra in first place by 17.7 seconds with one day left in the rally.

Rallye International du Valais

The end of day two at the Rallye International du Valais sees the service park move from Sion to Martigny (CERM) in preparation for the local rally stages. Bruson, Verbier, Sembrancher, Champsec, Saxon, Croix de Coeur, Levron, Col du Lein , La Chaux, Le Chable and La Tzoumaz.

The weather forecast for Saturday’s Rallye is cold -6 to -9 with snow!! which will make the rally over Croix de Coeur a tad interesting. Last year TeleVerbier opened the lifts and charged 10 chf to get you up the hill, also this year La Dahu, one of the sponsors of Florian’s rally car, will be open as well.

Tyres – For ERC rally events they are only allowed to change tyres in the service park (Martigny CERM). So local knowledge and luck will play a huge part in doing well in the Verbier stages.

Now Pirelli appear to know something about tyre choice for Saturday’s rally around the Valais..Or maybe they have been watching the Perfomance Verbier’s Blog??

Rallye International du Valais_Ice_Tyres

However Little Ellie had the final say on tyre choice for today stages in the Rallye International du Valais .

Karting Ellie at Rallye International du Valais

The video below shows some of the footage of the Rallye International du Valais 2012

Rallye International du Valais Day 2 Crash

Below is the damage caused to Michalle Burri’s Peugout 206 S2000

PS Florian Gonon still holds the lap record at Karting Extreme Verbier 19.2 seconds, set on his second ever lap in an Extreme Ice Kart.