July 23 2013

 
      Rosewood Series is part of the USA Cycling national ranking system.
2013 Series III Race I
 

Cooper City, Fl July 21st, 2013

*35+ No sun, no wind, no rain, no leaders, since it is a new series. Team work paid off, JF Rodriguez took both intermediate sprints to collect the first white jersey, R Morozov from cool bean team seats in second place, three points behind. After Many attacks six guys broke away gaining about haft a lap from the bunch. Tie sprint, but G Moore from Bike America by a bike length takes victory from N Trujillo racing for TAS Team, third on line was a ghost rider G Guzman.
*45+ & 55+ Weather still good, but racing gets faster. Three riders broke away S Mljeak (Stradelli) J Ortiz (Ghost Rider) and J Armas (Pink Panther). They managed to lap the field after the first prime. J Armas continues dominating from previous series the sprinter’s jersey, he is back in white. After lapping the bunch S Mljeak managed to get away again to win the race in a solo and now is the new one in yellow. M Mosquera placed again first on the 55+ category, followed by F Craig and F Vasquez.
*Pro 1,2,3 Climate conditions ideal for high speed racing; and never the less was given by this bunch. With five points between two intermediate sprints, J Rodriguez from Performance team takes the first white jersey of this new series; followed by R Rivera from USA Bike Street team. But major objective was not white but yellow; his companion on the break F Matute could not hold his pace for the final sprint. Five guys were chasing, a youngster S Morfin from Interactive Metronome Team outsprinted them to claim third place on the podium.
*4&5 Same team fighting for the white jersey, head to head on both sprints O Martinez beats C Fuentes from TAS Cycling Team, securing the sprinter’s jersey. Three guys got clear from the bunch, J Lamy, S Sanchez and A Pineda, in a hard chase K Abbate closed the gap, now two laps to go. For the final sprint we saw one of closes one in years, for about one quarter of an inch; J Lamy takes victory from K Abbate from Pink Panthers Team, what a finale to take yellow. Third place was for S Sanchez about one half bike lengths behind.

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