I was looking at my Sunday DH race time from this year compared to past year's, and with only one practice run, on the day of the race, plus all the other racing we did this weekend, I still went the fastest I've ever gone on the Sunday course, by 1.5 seconds! Previous best time was 6 years ago, peak of crossFit training riding Trek Session 9.9 DH sled.
Got through the entire weekend of racing no crashes, or even close calls (apart from that one mistake at the start of 1 which I still was able to ride away from). I feel the like Taniwha just makes it easy to rip.