DNN2
"Hello, everyone, and welcome to Aletsch Gorge for the fourth race of this year's Imperial League season. It's a narrow, twisty course but extremely fast in places, and nowhere more so than here, at the legendary Shogun's Pocket chicane. At its narrowest the ravine is only a hundred and nine feet wide, but the dragons will come through here out of the dive from the sixth to the seventh ring at well over eighty knots – that's over ninety miles an hour.
"Or at least, the dragons with brave riders will. It's a course that favours smaller dragons, and after the last race at the Rhuen Delta was a playground for big solar drakes like Lucia Aelschu's Olympia and Nikita Coro's Incandesia, this time it's another multiple-time champion and another promising rookie who are the ones to watch, Feran Andoal and Phoebe Tenryuu.
"This is DNN2, I'm Sam Tinbru, and we'll be bringing you all this weekend's action from the practice sessions through to the race, along with interviews, analysis, and comment from the teams. I'm joined, as always, by former IL team principal Bob Anmo. Bob, there's a real air of excitement about the paddock this weekend, don't you think?"
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"There is, it's been a few years since anyone was really excited by the thought of racing at Aletsch, but we're pretty much guaranteed a shakeup this time."
"Indeed. For those of you new to the Imperial League – and if you are new, thanks for joining us, it's great to have you, welcome to the show – Feran Andoal has dominated here… well, really since he first joined the IL six years ago. He's won four of the last five races here. One more and he'll equal the record for most wins at this course, which has stood for almost forty years, absolutely incredible really. And it's even more incredible that we're now talking – quite seriously, I should add – about him being challenged by a rookie."
"Well, when he was a rookie we talked quite seriously about him challenging champions."
"True, turnabout is fair play, as they say. Can Phoebe Tenryuu really take the fight to Feran this weekend? Or can anyone else?"
"Soot's a hell of a dragon, especially for this kind of twisty stuff, and he's small, which is a real advantage here. Apart from maybe some of the mountain courses up in Norda and Ura, I'd say this is where they're most favoured."