Three-time US Professional criterium champion Luke Lamperti and Tulsa Robust omnium winner Samantha Schneider gained the elite races on the inaugural CRIT Championship in St. Petersburg, Florida on Saturday night.
It was a L39ION of Los Angeles sweep within the ladies’s race, a mixed subject for execs and class 2/3/4 riders as Samantha Schneider posted up as she crossed the road forward of teammates Skylar Schneider in second and Julyn Aguila in third. A full squad of six L39ION riders, together with Alexis Ryan, Kendall Ryan and Aubrey Drummond, gained the crew prize.
Lamperti additionally sat as much as have a good time his victory as he crossed the road, a number of bike lengths in entrance of Briton’s Jim Brown driving for the London Tekkerz crew in second. Third place went to Jonathan ‘JP’ Primm driving for Reign Nashville.
All three males appeared as visitor riders for his or her respective groups, Lamperti having competed this yr for Trinity Racing on the highway and represented Crew USA on the UCI Street and Gravel World Championships. Brown competed by way of August with Cross Crew Legendre, and Primm rode with the Work Laborious Be Humble membership crew. Brown competed by way of August with Cross Crew Legendre, and Primm rode with the Work Laborious Be Humble membership crew.
L39ION swept the rostrum ceremonies with the lads’s crew prize as nicely, the trophy hoisted by Corey Williams alongside Lamperti, Tyler Williams and Eder Frayre. Justin Williams was not a part of the awards ceremony.
The flat, four-corner course for CRIT Championship was ridden in a counter-clockwise path, the lads ending because the solar sank behind the palm tree-lined avenues stretching to the Gulf of Mexico.
CRIT, an acronym for Circuit Racing Worldwide Tour, was created by Justin Williams, who began Williams Racing growth and co-founded L39ION of Los Angeles. The occasion provided a $15,000 prize purse for professional ladies and professional males that was cut up evenly throughout each fields in 70-minute competitions.
The boys’s professional race featured an ‘all-star’, invitation solely subject of 10 groups for the one-day occasion, which was independently produced from USA Biking. A separate ladies’s professional race by no means materialised with a shortfall of invited riders who had schedule conflicts and restricted availability, so the professional ladies competed within the ladies’s open class 2/3/4 occasion. The identical prize cash was distributed for the ladies as deliberate.
Temporary outcomes
| Pos. | Rider Identify (Nation) Crew | End result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samantha Schneider (L39ION of Los Angeles) | |
| 2 | Skylar Schneider (L39ION of Los Angeles) | |
| 3 | Julyn Aguila (L39ION of Los Angeles) |
| Pos. | Rider Identify (Nation) Crew | End result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luke Lamperti (L39ION of Los Angeles) | |
| 2 | Jim Brown (London Tekkerz) | |
| 3 | Jonathan Primm (Reign Nashville) |