Robert Winder

What a great place to race, the first downtown crit for me this season and it was such a change from the usual industrial park.  I loved the circuit, fast, technical sections, long straights - a finish that was too far up the road - it has everything.

Entered in the geezers race, me and Chris turned up determined to show ourselves - we’ve got to get our name on the podium.  So did all the other usual teams though and with the first three laps of big money primes, $100, $50, $50 to really string it out.  It was fast and furious.  We watched and followed all the big wheels early on, Chris bridged up to the stars’n’stripes of Hutchinson and 4 others only to be caught by the bunch.  2 laps later it was all over.

2 groups hammered off the front, we blinked and missed it.  Poulsen attacked hard a couple of times and Hernando countered.  With 10 up the road and the teams on the front we weren’t going anywhere.  Most of the rest of the race was safe, some diving on the inside of the chicane giving some mild heart attacks.

The final laps was under the control of Boschs new outfit - Sierra Pac? - and the sprint started early before the last turn with them letting lose the big guns.

A nice result for Morgan Stanley and congrats to Joel for another good placing.