Evanston, Ill. — Peter Dawson scored his second victory – and Rock Racing’s fifth of the Point Premium Root Beer International Cycling Classic – in winning the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Grand Prix of Cycling.
Sunday’s race was originally scheduled for 62 miles (100 km) around a six-turn, 0.8-mile course. But a pair of serious crashes twice forced the race to be re-started, the final time with only six laps remaining. Officials decided to make it a 10-lap race, with prime laps at six and three laps to go.
On the re-start, Dawson followed an attack by Jairo Perez Suarez (Colombian National Team) that got clear with Australian Tommy Nankervis (DLP Pro Cycling Team). The three stayed away to the finish with the Rock Racing rider scoring his second win in four days. Suarez finished second and Nankervis was third.
Rock Racing’s Sterling Magnell finished sixth to retain his overall lead, while teammate Rahsaan Bahati stayed in the red jersey of Bianchi Sprints competition leader.
Magnell raced Saturday and Sunday despite suffering a concussion from a crash that occurred when his tire blew going through a high-speed corner in Friday’s Ripon Red Hawk Criterium in Ripon, Wis. A gash to his forehead required seven stitches to close and doctors only cleared him to race after the 25-year-old underwent a CAT scan.
“I’m doing all right now, though” Magnell said. “I’m on the speedy road to recovery.”
Monday’s Pharma Pacific Tour of Holy Hill is one of only two road races and carries with it double points for the contenders vying for the overall title of the 17-day series.
“It (the overall) is a little close now, with my biggest threat being Jonathan Cantwell of Jittery Joe’s,” Magnell said. “But the team has been riding really well, especially the day I came back from my crash.”
In the women’s competition at the International Cycling Classic, Rock Racing’s Ashley Dymond finished third Saturday in the Carl Zach Cycling Classic presented by Couri Insurance Agency in Waukesha, Wis. Dymond’s podium finish was the 23rd of the season by a member of the Rock Racing women’s squad.
Photos: Leonard Basobas
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