Sizziling Summer Series Round 2

Round two of the criterium series saw the squads greatest day of results, with two wins and top ten finishes as well as aggressive riding that paid off in spades.

Women's Race

With two of the team struck down with illness, it was left to Lou and Jazzy to fly the flag for the women's team. Given their reduced numbers, the girls decided the best form of defence was attack, and that's exactly what Lou did.

Lou was able to escape on a strong solo move, where she was able to clean up the primes on offer, but more importantly, force the other teams to chase. As the chase wore down the other teams, Jazzy was able to benefit from Lou's great work and got a free ride into the finale.

Once Lou was caught, she then set about defending Jazzy's position by controlling the peleton and ensuring Jazzy was well placed for the sprint finish.

Due to Lou's great help, Jazzy was perfectly positioned for the sprint and was able to come away with a great win for the team. Very well deserved!

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A Grade Men's race

The A Grade Men's race was a well controlled affair, with the Budget team doing a great job at ensuring their leader Jesse was well placed to consolidate his lead.

Despite the strength of Budget, many attempts to break away were made from the teams that don't have a great sprint option. Unfortunately many of the attempts to get away were inevitably brought back by the storming Budget team.

This did however allow our team riders to follow the tempo and wait for what was always going to be a sprint finish.

Into the final few laps a crash interrupted Dan's move towards the front, but as ever, Condy was well placed to contest the sprint, where he managed to get 7th place, which puts him into 4th overall.

Next week we'll seek to get Condy onto the podium.

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B Grade Men's race

The B grade Men's team also showed some great tactical ability in being able to win what was a hectic and difficult race to control.

The team had a plan to work towards a sprint to set up Ben Chambers, but the other teams had other ideas and set about creating an aggressive and fast race. Mid way through the race, a dangerous move formed, which Adam Barron was able to be apart of and monitor things for the rest of the team. Being the clever rider that he is, Adam managed to get the prime.

Into the finale, the attacks continued and the race was hard to control. Thankfully the boys managed to stay near the front and take advantage of the opportunities as they came. As such, a chaotic final lap saw Mark Pierce take advantage of a late attack with a great counter move and sprint clear for a great win.

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