On Friday night Boyd Johnson of DLP Racing took the win in the Flow MINI Twilight Criterium. Racing kicked off late at 10:00pm in downtown Lexington, NC. The twilight crit is a new race in only its second year but the race drew a huge crowd and a large field. DLP Racing had four riders in the race with Alder, Shawn, Jon Hamblen, and Boyd. The guys were very active all night. Jon Hamblen and Alder were each in about a dozen moves as the whole team rode at the front of the race to make sure we were represented in any break away attempts.  But as good as the move looked on paper nothing seemed to gain any ground. The entire night nothing got more than 8-10 seconds up the road.  As the lap board passed inside 10 laps remaining Jon Hamblen found himself in a small group of 5 riders that seemed to be working really well. As they came through for the bell lap with one to go  they still had a 7 second gap on the hard chasing field.  It looked like they were going to hold onto the win for sure. But back at this same time Shawn, and Alder were on the front of the field setting up Boyd for the finishing sprint. Little did they know but they were riding so fast that they pulled back those  7 second and caught the break in the last corner. Alder kicked it into high gear up the hill with boyd on his wheel. Boyd came flying by in the last 100 meters to take a convincing win. Jon Hamblen who was in the break that got caught in the last corner was able to hold onto 5th place for the night.

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