Good Start at Dalby Forest for CFR
The CFR guys got off to a good start of their World Cup Weekend at Dalby Forest where Manuel Fumic got second in Friday evening’s Pro Sprint Eliminator. His teammate and Italian Champion Marco Aurelio Fontana won the small final.
For the riders and hundreds of spectators, the Pro Sprint Eliminator was great fun and a great show. Held for the first time on a World Cup weekend, this race format brought action and thrilling battles into downtown Pickering, the host town of the 2010 World Cup opener. Cannondale Factory Racing’s Manuel Fumic did really well and was only beaten in the final by Thomas Litscher from Switzerland. “I had great fun in all the heats. The crowds went crazy and cheered all around the course,” Fumic said.
Marco Aurelio Fontana had a hard semi final and could not qualify for the last heat. “In the small final I won the start and controlled the group on the course. At the last corner I started the sprint and won my heat. I think with the right rules, this race format should be a part of every World Cup weekend and of the World Cup as well.”
On Sunday CFR starts the 2010 World Cup season. On the newly built race course in Dalby Forest, all teams expect a thrilling race. “The course is fun but also hard. It is not the climbing that makes the course difficult, but the technical parts that are demanding,” Belgium Champion Roel Paulissen said after training. CFR will use Cannondale’s Flash this weekend and will race once again aboard the lightest bike in the field.
