Breaking the Hour: Filippo Ganna

With never-before-seen footage and insight, go behind the scenes of Filippo Ganna's momentous UCI Hour Record attempt.
Explore the development, testing and training it takes to break one of cycling's most prestigious records.

[@nklsmntl725]

So that was a proper FTP test, now he can finally start training with Zwift.

[@brianridley1102]

Fair play to Dan Bigham, that must be the most selfless act I have seen anyone do helping someone break your record so soon afterwards. I hope he was well rewarded!

[@INEOSGrenadiers]

👏

[@jaunedroite]

I mean, it's literally his job. He's Ineos' performance engineer.

[@brianridley1102]

@@jaunedroite it is indeed but he didn't have to do it 100%, nobody would have known. I have worked with plenty of people who would behave like that without far less than a world record at stake, that's for sure.

[@jaunedroite]

@@brianridley1102 I get it, but "the most selfless act I have seen anyone do" is a bit much. Just seem like unnecessary exaggeration, when the guy is paid for exactly that and was already paid for it when he set his hour record (so he knew all along what was coming).

[@jdwalexander]

It's a beautiful thing to see the selflessness of Dan Bigham in assisting Ganna to his record. The individual gets celebrated, as they should, incredible effort but the kudos to the entire team.

[@Lars16]

You can be there to help improve the record or you can watch from the sideline what will inevitably be beaten. I know what I would chose.

[@htdtr]

*Bigham

[@jezcox9430]

really proud to have my commentary on this film. Capturing an incredible, historic moment

[@INEOSGrenadiers]

Cheers Jez, fantastic commentary on a fantastic moment 👍

[@federicomurero]

So great to see this behind the scenes. It gives us the chance to understand how much work has gone into this attempt!

[@veganpotterthevegan]

I'm gonna down 15kg of slush to take this record up to 60km!

[@INEOSGrenadiers]

One hour of brain freeze incoming!🤣

[@veganpotterthevegan]

@@INEOSGrenadiers worth it for 60km🤜🕐🤛

[@INEOSGrenadiers]

@@veganpotterthevegan 👊

[@Szymas1000]

jak nie będziesz jadł mięsa to nie pobijesz nawet rekordu podwórka

[@veganpotterthevegan]

​@@Szymas1000oddly enough, Graeme Obree didn't eat meat🤡

[@Ironrav]

What an amazing achievement Fillipo! I love the genuine emotions of the Italians!

[@ethangodridge6833]

Excellent video, Top Ganna and great work Dan.

[@HacheHaine]

What a performance for Pippo Ganna, Thanks a lot to share that

[@Becausefamilycar]

I can’t imagine doing that, great video. Massive congrats to ganna, what an achievement. He makes it look so easy and that’s how you know he’s crazy and still wants to go faster.

[@Garybaxter1]

Amazing! Filippo! backed by a great team....... 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@vcbornboningen6775]

Ja, Filippo Ganna hat einen Affenzahn drauf. Gratulation zu dieser tollen Leistung. Wenn es einer schafft, diesen Weltrekord zu unterbieten, dann ist es Ganna selbst.

[@fang_uk]

Kudos Filippo! You are such an inspiration, and your sunny disposition and laser-focus is yet another perfectly aligned string in Team Ineos’ [already impressive] bow! 🙂

[@pierrev897]

Wonderful video about a big moment for the team ! It could be pretty cool to have one of this type of video about Josh Tarling when he became european ITT champion ! Thx :)

[@fastasasloth]

They'll do another vid when Josh breaks 57km.... ;)

[@darrylperry6029]

Amazing effort. Congratulations!!!😬

[@madyogi6164]

👋👋👋👋Bravo Filippo!!! It was thrilling to watch!

[@ankousama5840]

a wonderful discipline. I wish we have this performance on TV in France!

[@domenicoalessandrosilvestr7829]

You are truly a great athlete and exemplary sportsman! Thanks Filippo! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You are the best! We are so proud of you in Italy! 👏👏👏

[@luigiseguro4713]

Top Ganna. You are amazing 👏

[@paulsolon6229]

Way to go Ganna

[@TwoWheelWarrior]

Way to go buddy!

[@nicolasmalaise1076]

Great job ! I'm looking for the 6:20 track too 😁

[@MannBazza]

Awesome feat. When you look at what it takes to do this now it helps to explain why cycling is getting so expensive. Gone are the days when the likes of Obree made his own bike out of washing machine parts. These companies have to recoup some of this investment somehow.

[@danielsiapin]

Obree’s bike was so much better that UCI outlawed it.

[@pillings1]

I have a feeling that the Hour record will stay in the Ineos camp for some time....They have a pretty good British replacement for Ganna and he's only 19!

[@yorkie2789]

What a guy!

[@allenfrankin]

I really need a tracklist for this video

[@nitroputin5790]

16:05 Ganna such a beast hes taking turns pulling with a moto

[@TopG5887]

That was awesome. It makes me want to go full send an hour. Thank you Ineos for such a great video.

[@WeirdNeville]

I've only ever done 20 min max sustained efforts and it's utterly brutal. I cannot imagine the hour.

[@niall7499]

Hi what's the song being being played at around 6:00

[@DarioTopic]

How good i need to be to drive for INEOS and will my Strava stats help me with that

[@smunoz08]

Question, if the test is for an hour, how is it that he finished right on the finish line and not somewhere along the track? Awesome record btw !

[@r1.r1.r1]

🔥🔥

[@RileyWilkinson-bl3xq]

I'm assuming he was putting his hands in ice judging by the expression on his face, what benefit would this have?

[@ernwillburn]

I thinks it's to cool down body temperature

[@ethanbotterill2743]

They want him to have a reasonably high heart rate without being too hot, so they have him warm up pretty hard and then wear an ice jacket and put his hands in ice to cool him down

[@NielsDeBoeck]

Top Ganna!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@machdocheifachmal]

Great video! What's the song at 21:50? I know it samples "Better in tune with the infinite", but can't figure out the exact song.

[@sidharthwarrier9001]

Magnetic Rose - GUNDAM

[@maryangauthier4727]

Incredible performance. What is the spray he used for his over-shoes 😮

[@samuelparaventi]

I am interested as well! My socks often slip down my calf on a hard ride. Could it be possible they are adding some kind of sticky substance to keep the socks perfectly in place?? I don't have any other ideas.

[@jorymil]

Is the idea with the slush to lower the body temperature so the body doesn't have to work so hard to cool itself?

[@cryptobond0079]

Yes I use BananaWax Drag & Friction Reduction TdF Racing Chain Wax on my Chains.

[@paulsolon6229]

Superb team job Bingham sacrificed

[@TriathlonDan]

This. Is. Mint.

[@INEOSGrenadiers]

Thank you! 🙏

[@aDi2608]

11:29 so FTP 431watt? Was this his average for 1 hour?

[@adrianriverapr6288]

why does he put his hands in those buckets? are they filled with ice?

[@richardmiddleton7770]

35.5 mph average! Insane.

[@user-jr5iv5mb6l]

Anyone got track id at 6:22 ?

[@catflapper125]

what is the object at 4:07?

[@benoitarteau2078]

What is the AVG power?

[@ForeJaapie]

A 3d printed titanium time trial bike, astonishing. Wonder if this tech is gnna become cheaper than carbon for road bikes one day

[@jaymendes]

That chainring tho 🥵

[@pfeifencarl]

There must have been at least another 7 m in there for him with a close shave. :-)

[@lizhengzhang]

again!?

[@GulaschGeneral]

can someone explain why they tried to cool him down so much?

[@tessierrr]

the whole bike is 3d printed ??? 😍

[@na-dk9vm]

Right now, who is the fittest (or top 3) fittest cyclists in the world?? Say for the vuelta or the TDF???

[@deNudge]

Nice gear ratio!!! 😀

[@n8torious309]

The best part is the post-race interviews when he says that he could've gone faster. Like man, what the fuck.

[@paulsolon6229]

Language

[@n8torious309]

@@paulsolon6229 English, fuckin obviously

[@dasoberwalliser]

Ganna be hard to be that record!

[@alexpurvis4321]

i remmber being in the velodrome when wiggins broke it

[@garrymcilveen1230]

👌👊

[@secretagent86]

Imagine if he rode the famous Lotus bike

[@Tethysmeer]

430w ftp in the test 🤯

[@danielsiapin]

I just did 430w for a minute. 59 more. But first I’ll be sore for the next 3 days.

[@elonif4125]

@@danielsiapinYeah, I can hold 430 Watts for maybe 3 minutes (in perfect form) and then will be completely exhausted. Doing it for one hour is insane.

[@TenTegens]

Prime Fabian vs Prime Filippo? Your Opinions?

[@lewisdwheeler]

@8:10 ‘the gooch really suffering a lot’ 😬

[@anguskumikoforsyth7808]

I’ve always wondered what would happen if today’s riders got on a non-aero steel frame, and rode outside in wool shorts just like Merckx did back in the day. Would anyone break that record?

[@Horstelin]

They would probably still beat it. Nutrition and training is just so much better these days then back then. If Merckx would have had today's tools back then? Probably not.

[@duroxkilo]

i think it's a difficult question to answer in any realistic way. when going fast enough (not just on a bike) air friction plays a larger and larger role in power consumption... at about 15km/h air resistance is the main force the rider works against (it goes up to over 90%) at the speed these riders pedal. so pedaling in open air for one hour presents the rider with such inconsistent air resistance that a world record would depend a lot on pure luck of wind direction and intensity... ps: even sprint runners feel this 'wind inconsistency' and at a certain wind speeds, the races "don't count"

[@pierocus3261]

I am sure he's GANNA break more records!

[@danielorourke8918]

Chapeau Pippo! What's the song at 6:20 please?

[@Wantted1st]

on the run by tom green

[@user-jr5iv5mb6l]

​@@Wantted1stI can't find the track, you got a link?

[@user-jr5iv5mb6l]

​@@Wantted1stit's not that song

[@davidspagnolo4870]

8:09 - Ineos should have done some research in how to re-create Garaint's iron-gooch.

[@Real28]

He's not a person, he's an alien.

[@Davioli97]

7:47 'Zio porc* numeri alla mano eh'' ahahah Grande Filippo

[@justus1995]

I love how nobody talks about that this record improved by an insane 11.1% in just 8 years, which might show how far we are from the true human/technological limit

[@danielsiapin]

You might be right, but it’s a record that was mostly ignored until Sir Wiggins went after it

[@bramswinkels3348]

Very nice doc! But its about a year too late! You cannot seriously take more than a year to make something like this right?

[@austinwanner449]

how long do you think it takes to make something like this? this is an incredibly highly produced, well researched documentary. those dont come out of thin air

[@takl23]

How about thanks for making this? It’s free amazing content.

[@ajsfx1]

Graeme Obree with this technology during his career would beat any record. Look what he did with his home made bike! He also invented the Superman position after the UCI banned his previous position and even attempted to ban his bike and all this without using performance enhancing drugs!

[@SebaPakarati]

But in the Tour TT... 😂

[@uomotikre5628]

didnt know Bigham was Randy from HIMYM

[@BLITZKRIEG1]

I'd rather take the prototype

[@willardSpirit]

that beard is probably not aero. Could've gone faster XD

[@some______guy]

He could have shaved... aerodynamically...

[@fathersensini]

legend🚅

[@Endurancelust]

Time for Wout 😂

[@janveraart307]

430+ watts for an hour 😂

[@Jon-cw8bb]

Good record but i think he underperformed his expectations

[@Vortee]

If Filippo had shaved his beard, he could have beaten 57 km

[@robCaB]

Ha, with stubble! How Italian. Will train himself to death but draws the line at being clean shaven.

[@pedrazza5537]

Chris bordmann had not this equipment... Even supermann from 1996 with this clouths etc.... Was not on this, level.

[@achimrosch8859]

Its just the Bike - every year the World-Record gets broken because of develepment of the equipment. Thats nonsense.

[@TheHalo14aus]

Yet they banned O'bree's Old Faithful - made from scrap metal and washing machine bearings.

[@Ireallylikeeggs]

I too have wrong opinions

[@durianriders]

60psi in the tires. Softer = faster.

[@notreally2406]

Not on smooth

[@danielsiapin]

Don’t argue with Durian

[@paulsolon6229]

How do you know Hanna’s psi? Speculation

[@broersporco]

so fast , tell us the power ! 😯

[@9118693223]

top ganna is always strong , and he will be the first maglia rosa in the 2024 giro . COMPLIMENTI !!!!!

[@victorsamsa1173]

🤧