Red Hook Criterium Barcelona No.5 is a wrap. We selected some Instagram posts that reflect the day perfectly!
Text: Brian Megens
Header Image: Tornanti.cc
As always the Red Hook Criterium Barcelona No.5’s venue is an absolute beauty.
Eleonore Saraiva & Colin Strickland started the day as the RHC leaders.
The course was technical with 2 hairpins but above all proved to be very slippery in some corners creating 2 stop and go moments each lap.
The qualification heats in the men’s race were very competitive forcing riders to go to the limit and sometimes go over it.
Due to a broken chain Aldo lost control over his bike.
However, in the Last Chance Race he did walk away with the win securing a 16th place to start.
She won in London, she won her heat, and she won the Super Pole, Raphaele Lemieux was clearly the top-favourite but was taken out due to a flat tire
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Besides Raphaela, Ainara Elbusto, Ash Duban, Eleonore Saraiva, and Tanja Erath were also among the top favourites.
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Ash Duban managed to beat Ainara Elbusto in a sprint-a-deux,securing the win.
Ainara set-up the break-away but had to settle for 2nd place
Photographers were there again to get those amazing shots
With 2 laps to go Stefan Schafer caused a crash causing many favourites, including Colin Strickland, to get behind
Both Olivier Leroy and Marius Petrache were among them
Not only did van Eerd get the Top-Antagonist award, he went on to take the win in RHC BCN5
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Podium party
With his 2nd place, Davide Vigano took over the RHC leaders jersey from Colin Strickland
The Top-10 in the Women’s and Men’s field
And then there was the after-party
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RHC BCN 5 race venue the day after
Now we are off to the beach
