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Vida Lopez De San Roman (Bear Nationwide Crew) and Eric Brunner (Aggressive Edge Racing) repeated their respective victories from the day gone by within the elite girls’s and elite males’s races to safe back-to-back wins on day 2 of racing on the North Carolina Grand Prix in Hendersonville on Sunday.
Within the elite girls’s race, Ella Brenneman (CXD Trek Bikes) led the sector into the Belgian stair part early within the circuit. Brenneman led the entrance group that included Lopez de San Roman, Caroline Mani (Groove Manufacturing unit Off Street Racing), Kaya Musgrave (Cervèlo-OrangeLiving), and Lizzy Gunsalus (Marian College).
Nonetheless, on the second lap, Gunsalus, Lopez de San Roman, Mani, and Musgraves opened a spot, leaving Brenneman chasing in fifth place. Not far behind was one other chase group of two that included Lauren Zoerner (Aggressive Edge Racing), and Alexis Magner (L39gion of Los Angeles).
Lopez de San Roman and Mani separated themselves from the entrance group on the third lap, with the day gone by’s winner then pulling away from her rival and increasing her lead via the rest of the race to take the second win in a row. Mani completed in second place at 26 seconds again, whereas Musgrave was third at 50 seconds again.
Within the males’s race, it was a better battle between first and second place with Brunner ending just one second forward of Kerry Werner (Groove Off Street Racing), whereas Scott Funston (Cervèlo-OrangeLiving) completed third at simply three seconds again.
The three fashioned half of a bigger group within the opening laps that additionally included Caleb Schwartz (ENVE-Ahead Endurance Teaching), Owen Brenneman (CXD Trek Bikes) and Tyler Orschel (Pan American Union Racing).
Funston, Brunner and Werner then cut up off the entrance of that group. However with three laps to go Funston started to wrestle to stick with the tempo set by his rivals.
On the final lap, Brunner attacked on the paved end straightaway however was matched by Werner and Funston, with Funston coming round to the entrance.
The three leaders relentlessly attacked over the remaining lap, with Brunner overtaking Werner on the strategy to the climb on the circuit, and creating the hole wanted to take the win for a second day in a row.
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