The DLP team sent a full squad to the Bike Jam NRC race last week. The 10th 10th Annual BikeJam Cycling Festival was held in downtown Baltimore in beautiful Patterson park. The riders were greated with a strong field with racers from Slipstream, Toyota United, Jelly Belly, Rite Aid, Time, Colivita, Bissell, Team Type 1 and of course the home team, Kelly Benefits Strategies. One hundred and thirty riders started the Baltimore Bike Jam/Kelly Cup ready to take on forty laps of a one-mile circuit at full speed. Several attacks lead to breakaways that shuffled and re shuffled over the courses undulating terrain and strong winds. With fifteen laps to go, Johnny Sundt (Kelly Benefit Strategies), Scott Jackson (DLP Racing) and Kyle Wamsley initiated the beginning of what turned into the winning break. Five additional riders soon joined the pair that included Veilleux, Rollin and Fuentes along with Luis Amaran (Colavita/Sutter Home) and Armando Borrajo (Ciudad de Chivilcoy). Team TIME organized a strong chase from the peloton and were later joined by Team’s Type 1 and Bissell all of whom were not represented in the front separation. However, even the collaboration of the three partial teams was not enough to gain back the time lost to the escapees. The group rode well together and ended up staying away. Unfortunately for DLP racing an attack in the closing laps by Rollin (Toyota United) split the break from 8 riders down to four. Scott Jackson rode well but ended up on the wrong side of the split. Altogether the team rode great even though we just missed out on the final podium.
On Sunday DLP Racing contested the Crystal City Cycling Classic presented by the US Air Force (UCI 1.2). The race was the third stop of the US Pro Tour of Cycling. The team sent a strong group of 7 riders to the event held in Arlington, VA. The race started at the new Air Force Memorial and continued past the Pentagon to the finishing area in Crystal City. The riders were faced with 13 laps of the grueling course for a total distance of just over 150 kilometers. The racing started off extremely fast and never slowed down for the entire race. The race was extremely active all day as riders attempted to get in the right breakaway. However it was not a day for a break. The only significant breakaway of the entire race contained 8 riders (including Spencer Beamer of DLP Racing) never established more than a 30 second advantage Read more
The team won the Low Country Volkswagen Criterium over the weekend in Charleston, SC. DLP sent a small group of 6 riders down to the race. Present were Torsten Wambold, Thad Dulin, Andrew Olson, Boyd Johnson, Joey Coddington and Chris Judy. The race was a 75 minute Criterium on a flat course in Hampton Park at the Citadel. The racers were greeted with perfect 75 degree sunny weather. The team was really motivated as the race would be a great tune up for the always popular late spring criteriums. The race saw many attacks but none gained much time on the field. DLP was very active with riders in every single move. With 20 minutes of racing left a large move finally rolled away with 12 riders in it. DLP had riders Torsten Wambold and Boyd Johnson in the move. The move was hovering just 15 seconds ahead of the field until attacks started coming with 3 laps to go. Read more
