Team Type 1 goes 1-2 in first race of 2009

February 1st, 2009 by Ron Callahan View Comments

Near Solvang, Calif. - It didn’t take long for the Team Type 1 men’s professional squad to post its first victory of the 2009 season.

Photo by Marco Quezada

After a little more than two-and-a-half hours and 68 miles of racing, Team Type 1′s Ricardo Escuela and Moises Aldape finished 1-2 at the Poor College Kids Road Race Saturday near Solvang, Calif. Sergio Hernandez (Rock Racing) was third.

Team Type 1 is holding its training camp in the Santa Ynez Valley as it prepares for the Amgen Tour of California. The second-year squad placed nine riders in the top 20.

Escuela is in his first year with the team that includes four riders who have Type 1 diabetes.

“I felt really confident,” Escuela said. “We had two or three – or more – guys in every break.”

Escuela said the lead-out for the sprint was one the team had practiced earlier this week.

“Valeriy (Kobzarenko) and Jesse (Anthony) gave me a strong lead out and Moises was right there on my wheel to make sure no one came around,” Escuela said.

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