Elevation Cycling Club starts year with $100,000 carryover bonanza

On January 14 the club will host its first event of the new calendar year dubbed ‘Come Watch We Elevate’ along the Mineral Heights to 19 Miles circuit in Clarendon.

All categories of races will be hotly contested with the $100,000 feature race, a carryover from last year’s final meet on December 17, the most eagerly anticipated on the cards.

A few weeks ago heavy torrential rain in the afternoon forced at abrupt end to the club’s final event at the Portmore Mall roundabout with riders registered for  the Super Masters and feature race unable to take the circuit.

With such a huge bonanza on offer to the winner of the feature race, the rain brought the event to an anti-climatic end.

Nonetheless, and as it has been for much of last year, the main protagonists are likely to come to the fore yet again this month.

Jerome Forrest, Barenton Bailey and Andrew Ramsay are amongst the country’s top elite cyclist and have had the better of each other in at least one competitive race within the last 12 months.

National junior champion Jaequan Dixon and Peter Robinson – both of Elevation Cycling Club – and Damaine Douglas of McForce Cycling Club are expected to battle it out for top honours in the junior category.

All other categories are expected to be exciting and keenly contested, with spectators having plenty to cheer about in the All Comers class and the open kiddies race.

Action is slated to get underway at 8:00 am.

The top three finishers in all categories will receive cash, medals and trophies.

The money on offer in the day’s feature is considered the largest single cash incentive in the history of local club cycling.

Second-placed will pocket $70,000, third $50,000, fourth $40,000 and fifth $30,000, making it also the largest purse for a single cycling race at least at this level.