BMC’s Jeff Louder won the Redlands Bicycle Classic Criterium in a two-man sprint against Luis Amaran (Colavita/Sutter Home), the two survivors of a breakaway that formed an hour before, resisting the all out chase by Toyota-United and a crash that took out the other two members in the break. Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) won the field sprint to take third place.
Santiago Botero with the help of his team Rock Racing aptly protected the yellow jersey and with no changes to the general classification with Chris Baldwin (Toyota-United)in second place and Francois Parisien (Symmetrics) in third.
The plan worked perfectly for the BMC team. “It was the plan to get a BMC rider in the break, we really wanted to wait for half race to do it, and that’s pretty much what happened. I saw the opportunity, there’s no star on this team, we’re all here to take opportunities, that’s what happened.” said Louder.
