rock two - continued.

the elite mens race was set to be an epic race. at rock one, swanson didn't even get a call up, but with a strong second place to horner they sure as hell gave him one on sunday.
here's the race report in photographs.



tilford won the holeshot, followed by bjorn and doug.



doug leads the field into the spooky barn.



after the spooky barn came the sand... (this photo is actually from saturdays race).



here is the run up, this is where the cx racers were seperated from the protour racers.
bjorn and doug lead horner up the climb...



...and lap after lap they put gaps into horner...



off the decent lap after lap doug had big gaps, and bjorn raced to 100% perfection, sitting on horner as he closed the gap time after time, until the last lap where bjorn made a brilliant move that horner had no response to...



doug raced a tactically fantastic race, and really earned the win. i have never seen anyone hit the barriers at the speed he was on his final lap. fucking incredible.

bjorn rolled in to a well earned second place, and the local boys put horner on the lowest step of the podium, with tilford claiming 4th.

it was a thrilling race, the best i have seen this year. horner shut down gap after gap without any help, you've gotta hand it to him, but in the end it was too much.



the champs from day one and day two.

coming next: weekend behind-the-scenes!