CRASH! That about sums up the first night of racing in Tulsa 1/2 races are interesting in that there are no well organized pro teams to keep the race fast and predictable. It’s not to say that the races aren’t fast, because they are, there are just these foreboding lulls in the pace when you can tell something stupid is about to happen. Add in the fact that there was a lot of money up for grabs in Tulsa and it makes sense why the first race of the series was a crash fest. I personally got caught in one of the gravity storms on Friday night. Someone coming up the outside got their bars tangled with mine on one of the straights and that was all it took to send a few of us down. I wasn’t too banged up, got a wheel from neutral, and the official threw me back in. Sean and I were up front for the last few laps and had a bit of bad luck or tactics, call it what you want. Sean ended up 16th and I was 12th. The result was a little disappointing but we were both in the money and the top 20 for the omnium. The victory of the night was that Noah, Andre, Sean, and Myself were not in the hospital.
Saturday could have definitely gone better. After Friday’s mayhem I was bound and determined to get up the road so I went with or chased everything. That didn’t work out too well and the race stayed together the whole time. Andre got himself near the front for the last lap and managed 12th in the sprint. That was our only result for this race.
Sunday brought globalbike’s best result on the weekend. The course was a very tough survival type course. The temperature was in the upper 90’s and each lap saw the field hitting a little wall of a climb for about 20 seconds. From there the course waivered up and down a bit and them bombed down to a sharp turn and the finishing straight. Only 26 people finished the race and I ended up 10th.
There was an overall omnium for the 1/2 field at Tulsa Tough. Going into the last day Andre and I both in the top 20 of the omnium. Andre had some bad luck and fell to 24th and with my result I moved up to 12th.
