Team Inferno Pro Cycling
| December 13, 2007 |
Team Inferno Pro Cycling has released its official 2008 roster today. Building on 2006 and 2007 successes as the country's dominant elite team (Abercrombie & Fitch Pro Development Cycling Team), Inferno Racing has signed some rising talent and some very cagey veterans from the professional peloton. The 2008 roster is as follows:Andy Applegate (USA)
Bennet van der Genugten (USA)
Chadwick Thompson (USA)
Christian Parrett (USA)
Jaime Gandara (MEX)
Jeff Braumberger (USA)
Jeff Hopkins (AUS)
Jim Baldesare (USA)
Josh England (NZL)
Marco Aledia (USA)
Matt Winstead (USA)
Remi McManus (USA)
Rich Harper (USA)
Ryan Gamm (USA)
Ryan Rish (USA)
Tim Swain (USA)"We have to build on the success of 2007," according to team GM, Chad Thompson. "We won Athens Twilight, won the USA Crits Series SE and led all competitions within the USA Crits Championship Series until our leader (Mark Hekman) met an untimely injury-plagued crash while laying it all out at the US Criterium National Championships! How do you top that as a newer team?"
Team Inferno Pro Cycling still has designs on being a continental team and desires to move higher within a short period of time. The team makes no disguise of their specialty or their desires. Thompson states, "We are a criterium based team. We have signed some of the best criterium riders in the US, if not the world. We want to win what we should have won in 2007; The USA Crits Championship Series title!" The team also plans to stack up as many NRC points as they can in the process, all while actually racing for charitable efforts.
To achieve such lofty goals, Inferno Racing LLC has added some heavy experience in the names of Jeff Hopkins, former Jr. World Champion and long-time Jittery Joe's member, and Remi McManus, a former US National Elite Road Race Champion. While offers remain with two other named riders, the young team built around its new leaders will prove difficult for some of the bigger budget 'Powerhouse' teams.
Inferno will continue its alliance with Masi Bikes and Spinergy, and has added the support of Champion System clothing, TRP brakes, and AltoLab to name only a few. Please visit www.infernoracing.org for details.
