[C4 Rides] Central Carolina Wins Again! -- NWS Crit 5/19

Kevin Laws kevintlaws at gmail.com
Mon May 24 21:22:39 EDT 2010


Great report Shawn!  Love the photo...

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Shawn Fleming <shawn.fleming at yahoo.com>wrote:

>  Last week, we headed back up to the historic North Wilkesboro Speedway
> for another go at the Wednesday night crit series, only this time we rolled
> in with 6 Central Carolina riders - me, Brad, Houston, Dave, Matt, and
> Dustin. The weather was perfect once again and the turnout was solid. Brad
> and Houston's families came out to lend their support (thanks, Richard,
> Casey, and Theresa!).
>
> With 6 riders, we had enough to talk strategy before the race. Brad and
> Houston were placed on "break patrol" and had full power to make something
> happen off the front of the race if they could stay clear, or at least chase
> down any breaks that looked dangerous. Since we knew from his win at Rock
> Hill that Dustin can hold his own in a sprint, the rest of us were tasked
> with making sure Dustin got to the line safely and in a position to take it.
> With Matt and Dave's mad time trial skills, we felt confident we could pull
> together a solid leadout train on the last lap.
>
> Turned out our plan worked perfectly! Brad and Houston launched attack
> after attack off the front during the race, continuously causing some of the
> stronger riders to bridge up and expend a lot of extra energy. None of the
> breaks stayed clear, but by wearing riders down, Brad and Houston played key
> roles in what went down at the end. With 2 laps to go, I made my way to to
> the outside with Matt in tow. A line quickly formed behind us with Dustin on
> Dave's wheel about 5 riders back from me. At the start of the last lap, I
> took off around the outside as hard as I could go and pulled off coming out
> of the first corner. Then Matt pulled through and off, leaving a couple of
> riders in front of Dave and Dustin. By this time, our train had already
> surprised the pack and was quickly rolling up the outside to the front of
> the race. Dave recognized it was time to get around the riders in front of
> him and he made a brilliant and quick move pulling Dustin straight up to the
> front of the pack going into the last turn. If you haven't seen Dave time
> trial, it's pretty amazing...he made it impossible for anyone to come around
> him and Dustin until coming out of the last turn -- and that's when Dustin
> poured it on. Timed perfectly, Dustin jumped off Dave's wheel coming out of
> the last turn and blazed a trail straight to the finish line! I'm pretty
> sure I saw some flames coming from Dustin's bottom bracket...
>
> Congratulations to Dustin and the team for working so well together!
>
> We actually have a picture this time -- attached.
>
> So far this year, our team now has:
>
> Three 1st places
> One 3rd
> One 4th
> One 5th
> and a few top 15s.
>
> Shawn
>
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