Former British road race champion Russell Downing (Health Net – Maxxis) will rejoin his US based team next week after his 7th place finish in the Archer GP in England last weekend. Downing left that race a bit frustrated, but not too unhappy with his finish.
"All the teams were represented in the break so my group didn't want to work and you can’t bring it back on your own," said Downing: "I did a few stints on the front and the group was splitting. But just when I thought we might get a group together across to the break we would go around the corner and everyone would sit up. It was very frustrating and I thought I would wait until the finishing circuit and when our group split again the lead came down to two minutes then went back up to three again. That left a little bit too much for us to do in the end. The weather was brilliant; it was like being back in America."
