Carnival City - Team ASG race report

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Race report from Tiaan Kannemeyer on Team ASG's results at Carnival City

 

 

ag JUNIOR Racing Team

The junior race this weekend was even harder for the ag team seeing that one of their team mates fell ill (Ruan Kruger) and they had to race with 3 riders.

 

The race was fast from the start proving that everyone is on form for the National Championship. A split came after 15km in the race and we had both our 2 top contenders Wesley Eslick and Rohan Du Plooy in there.

 

Our team also had a bit of misfortune when Ryan Felgate crashed in the 2^nd bunch. Luckily he got up, changed his broken wheel and got back to the 2^nd bunch.

 

At the finish our 2 ag riders only managed to get 5^th and 6^th but still showed good form. Ryan came in at 7^th place winning the bunch sprint.

 

 

ag Under 23 Racing Team

The Carnival City race is the last race before the National Championships so orders were to go out and make it as hard as possible in order for the riders to get into top form. The riders showed they’re ready for SA’s with at least one ag rider in each break. Obviously the race was too flat and fast again but the guys gave it their all.

 

Viehann du Plessis made a good attack 15km before the 1^st hotspot and got a gap of 45sec at 1 stage to take first hotspot and showed that he is ready for the SA time trail champs this week (It is not easy to stay ahead of a group going at those speeds).

 

At the end it came down to a bunch sprint with Arran Brown taking the win, Reinhardt Janse van Rensburg 2^nd and Nolan Hoffman 3^rd. Surely this weekend we will see a different picture in Nelspruit where the there is a LOT more climbing involved.

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Viehann du Plessis :clap: