From the first ABD Indoor TT in January to the final Fall Fling Time trial in October, WDT riders racked up 47 race wins this season. In addition to winning individual races, seven different riders also won nine race series. Tomasz Boba won the ABR Rider of the Year series in the CAT 3 division. He also won the CAT 3 division for the ABR Tour of IL/WI and Dennis Sandquist won the CAT 4 division. For the ABR Mid-America Time Trial series, Doug Peterson won the CAT 3 division and Brian Akers won the CAT 4 division. The Chicago Time Trial Series Masters 40+ division was won by Reed Oliff. Voytek Glinkowski won the USCF Illinois Cup Masters 40+ division and the USCF International Cycling Classic Masters 30+ division. In the last race series of the 2009 season, Jason Torres won the CAT 4 division of the ABR Fall Fling.
Full results for all WDT top 20 series finishers can be found on the WDT Results page.
October 4/5
WDT finished the 2008 Race season like it started - with many riders on the podium. At the Fall Fling Time Trail, Brian Akers pulled an incredible 0:20:32 to place first in the CAT 4 Division by over one and one-half minutes. Dave Polin put in a time of 0:20:49 to place 3rd in CAT 1/2. Derric Ungaro placed 4th in CAT 3 with a time of 0:21:09. Tomasz Boba placed 6th in CAT 1/2 with a time of 0:21:17. Voytek Glinkowski placed 10th in CAT 3 with a time of 0:22:20. After Brian, the remainders of the CAT 4 finishers were Jason Torres in 5th, Alex Bolivar in 7th, Dennis Sandquist in 12th and Albeiro Pineda in 23rd.
In the Fall Fling Crit #2, David placed 2nd in CAT 1/2 followed by Tomasz in 11th. In the CAT 3 race, Derric finished 11th followed by Cris Gola who finished with a surprise cameo appearance in 14th. Alex placed 5th in CAT 4, followed by Jason in 6th, and Dennis in 12th.
After two hard weekends of racing, Jason's consistent good finishes, capped by 2nd place in the opening road race, placed him at the top of the podium for CAT 4. To round out the CAT 4 Division, Alex finished the series in 6th, Dennis in 7th, Brian in 12th, and Albeiro in 20th. In the CAT 1/2 Division, David Polin placed 4th overall followed by Tomasz in 6th. In CAT 3, Derric place 6th followed by Voytek in 18th.
All in all, a great end to a great season of racing for WDT.
