Jeff King won the CRCA points race on Saturday, April 21, taking third, first, second, and first in the four sprints.
JKIA wins the final sprint ahead of Rashad Guerra and Rob Lattanzi, April 21 (photo by Andy Shen, nyvelocity.com). As always, lots more pictures from the race here.
Bandit Racing regrets to announce the suspension of its Regional Development Team, effective immediately. A victim of its own success, the program ran out of riders while still in its inaugural year. The Dev Team was initially created in August 2006 to foster the development of the team’s greenest member, Cat 3 ADM. But his recent Cat 2 upgrade earned him a spot with his fellow Bandits on the International Elite Squad.
Jeff King remarked: “I guess we didn’t plan this one too well. I mean, we’re proud of what we did for our little ADM, but we figured it would take another year or two. We haven’t even begun to identify a new roster of development riders.”
Saturday’s race was a good time. I got set up again by my Bandit teammates and didn’t touch the wind until 200 meters. They covered all the moves and gave me a perfect leadout in the sprint. I told them before that race that I would cover some moves, but during the race decided not to; it’s easier to tell people that you will cover moves than to actually do it. The race was fairly active. The highlight was was when Ryan spent a lap away with Ken Harris. The Bandits all looked at each other and smiled because we knew that he must be in a lot of pain and that made us happy.
