Rally engineer Philip Case takes on the “Iron Giant” at Red Bull Erzbergrodeo
Best known as the mastermind running the internationally respected PCRS Rallysport team, Laois man Philip Case is switching four wheels for two to tackle his biggest challenge yet. The renowned Irish rally engineer has set his sights on the 30th anniversary of the Red Bull Erzbergrodeo in Austria, widely regarded as the world’s most difficult endurance motorcycle event.
Taking place from June 4th to 7th inside a massive active iron mine, the grueling “Hard Enduro” spectacle attracts the absolute elite of dirt bike racing alongside hundreds of ambitious amateurs. Case will line up on a Husqvarna TE 300 in the Competition Single class, carrying start number 803 into the belly of the mountain known as the “Iron Giant.”
The sheer scale of the event is daunting, with the terrain specifically designed to push man and machine past their breaking points through boulder fields, tight forests, and near-vertical ascents.
“30th anniversary of the race, a full entry, I don’t know how many but its about 1200 entries,” Philip Case explained. “500 get to qualify, and about 15 manage to finish it. All the top enduro riders do it, likes of Billy Bolt, Johnny Walker and Manni Lettenbichler.”
The action kicks off with the high-speed Iron Road Prologue to determine who makes the cut. Only the 500 fastest riders earn a spot for Sunday’s main event—a brutal 4-hour, 23-checkpoint race against the clock where nearly 99% of entrants fail to finish
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