Haidet wins RenoCross

Lance Haidet (Donnelly Cycling) won the first UCI C1 cyclo-cross race of his career in RenoCross, attacking out of a leading group with Jamey Driscoll (Pivot Maxxis) and then leaving Driscoll behind to seal the victory. Bjorn Selander (Donkey Label) was third.

"First 'Cross win of the year. First C1 win ever. It feels awesome, I'm quite happy," Haidet said, adding that he is aiming to put in some good performances in the upcoming World Cups in Iowa and Wisconsin and then "Just try to hold the form through Pan Ams and through Nationals."

Haidet and Driscoll made a late move to leave behind a group of 10 riders who separated themselves from the bunch early in the race. The relatively high altitide in Reno turned the race into one of attrition, with riders putting in attacks then dropping back on the slow, windy sections.

"All day, it would get strung out when guys would go hard on the front, and then the slow grass and the headwind would just neutralize it. It was sort of a yo-yo all day," Haidet explained.

"When everyone would swarm, it would definitely get stressful, the fight for position was pretty gnarly sometimes. There were a couple of rubbing of wheels, and I think a couple of guys went down which is a bummer."

The crash came with three laps to go when Allen Krughoff tangled with Anthony Clark, causing Driscoll to lose contact briefly, then having to chase back on.

Driscoll sensed that with now only six riders in the lead group, riders were starting to struggle and he made his move with one lap to go.

"I took the lead a little early but I didn't start going full gas until maybe after the barriers, because I figured that people were less poppy, and if I was suffering, everyone else was also," Driscoll said. "Lance was the only one to stick to my wheel, he was in good position to have the legs and lungs to do it."

Haidet had picked his section of the course early in the race, and when it came to the section he felt best on toward the end of the lap, he made his move.

"I knew that I was riding the last section of the course pretty well, gave it from there to the finish and had just enough. It was good," Haidet said.

Behind, Selander, who had to chase back on after a first-lap crash, missed the winning move but managed to distance the rest of the group to take third.

"Those guys were riding really strong," Selander said of Haidet and Driscoll. "I almost made contact with them right before the finish on the backs tretch, but when you're going full gap and altitude is little, not affecting me too much but it definitely affected a little bit. And then I just held on to the finish.

"I'm happy. I haven't podiumed for a long time. Stoked, really stoked."

Full Results

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#Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Lance Haidet (USA)1:00:35
2James Driscoll (USA)0:00:02
3Bjorn Selander (USA)0:00:04
4Michael Van Den Ham (Can)0:00:08
5Anthony Clark (USA)0:00:10
6Stephan Davoust (USA)0:00:13
7Tobin Ortenblad (USA)0:00:24
8Geoff Kabush (Can)0:00:39
9Troy Wells (USA)0:00:48
10Cody Kaiser (USA)0:00:58
11Allen Krughoff (USA)0:01:40
12Carl Decker (USA)0:01:52
13Brannan Fix (USA)0:01:59
14Nicholas Beechan (USA)0:02:06
15Kevin Bradford-Parish (USA)0:02:39
16Tristan Uhl (USA)0:02:43
17Allan Schroeder (USA)0:02:44
18Mark Flis (USA)0:03:13
19Max Judelson (USA)0:03:40
20Benjamin Gomez Villafane (USA)0:04:02
21Jules Goguely (USA)0:04:08
22Molly Cameron (USA)0:04:13
23Russell Stevenson (USA)0:04:21
24Christian Husband (USA)0:04:28
25David Greif (USA)0:04:41
26Mark Severy (USA)0:04:56
27Sawyer Bosch (USA)0:04:58
28Tim Wollenberg (Ger)0:05:06
29Ryan Rinn (USA)0:05:25
30Noah Hayes (USA)0:06:15
31Brendan Lehman (USA)0:06:57
32Justin Thomas (USA)Row 31 - Cell 2
33William Allen (USA)0:07:06
34Stephen Cochran (USA)0:07:12
35Lucas Strain (USA)0:07:19
36Oleksiy Ukhanov (Ukr)Row 35 - Cell 2
37Timber Weiss (USA)Row 36 - Cell 2
38Brad Nelson (USA)Row 37 - Cell 2
39Aaron Bradford (USA)Row 38 - Cell 2
40Anastasio Flores (USA)Row 39 - Cell 2
41John Mundelius (USA)Row 40 - Cell 2
42Marco Oberteicher (Ger)Row 41 - Cell 2
43David Mcneal (USA)Row 42 - Cell 2
44Gannon Myall (USA)Row 43 - Cell 2
45William Youngman (USA)Row 44 - Cell 2
46Clinton Claassen (USA)Row 45 - Cell 2
47Steve Ouzounian (USA)Row 46 - Cell 2
48Michael Potter (USA)Row 47 - Cell 2
DNFDean Poshard (USA)Row 48 - Cell 2
DNFJon Okenfuss (USA)Row 49 - Cell 2
DNSJeremy Powers (USA)Row 50 - Cell 2
DNSHector Fernando Riveros Paez (Col)Row 51 - Cell 2
DNSMatthew Paez (USA)Row 52 - Cell 2

 

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