Weekend starts with Dash for Cash

Aug 4, 2011 by editor

Friday evening’s Longview Downtown Dash for Cash will provide a fitting start for a weekend of racing focused on speed, speed and more speed. After Friday’s four-up street sprint contests, the Longview Grand Prix Criterium picks up the pace the very next day with a race around the civic circle. The Albany Criterium follows on Sunday, and the off-roaders will be flying over the Alpine Trail outside of Oakridge for weekend #3 of the Oregon Super D Series.

FRIDAY
Longview Downtown Dash for Cash, Longview Wash.
Street sprints are back, this time in downtown Longview, Wash., as part of a two-race weekend. The racing starts at 5:30 p.m. on Longview’s Commerce Avenue. Four-up sprints, with two riders going forward each heat. Categories for men, women, road and mountain.

SATURDAY
Longview Grand Prix Criterium, Longview, Wash.
The 2nd Annual Longview Grand Prix Criterium circles the .5-mile civic center roundabout on wide-open, super fast pavement. Ten categories will race throughout the day, starting with the Masters 50+-60+ race at 11 a.m. and concluding at 6 p.m. with the 60-minute Cat 1/2 men’s race. Rubicon-Orbea’s Ben Chaddock, now riding the NRC circuit with Team Exergy, won the men’s Cat 1/2 race last year. Liea Tyrrell won the 2010 Cat 1/2/3 women’s event.

SUNDAY
Albany Criterium, Albany
The historic Albany Criterium will run over the same fast six-corner course that has hosted the OBRA championships for the previous two years. Eight OBRA fields will join the kiddie race and a Cruiser crit beginning at 9 a.m. with juniors and concluding at 4:15 with the 60-minute men’s Cat 1/2 race.

Oakridge Super D, Oakridge
Race #3 of the four-race Oregon Super D visits the Alpine Trail outside of Oakridge for the second year in a row. Racing starts Sunday with the pros at 11 a.m., but events begin Saturday with registration, packet pick-up and practice rides.