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Riders in the men’s race at the inaugural New West Grand Prix whip around the corner at Eighth and Columbia streets, with the Anvil Centre in the background, before starting the climb up to Carnarvon Street. For a wrap-up of all the race action, see Sports on page 28. For more photos, see page 3 and check out a photo gallery at www.newwest record.ca. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
Thrills, no spills for first Grand Prix
City still has post-race analysis to do, but all signs point to success for inaugural cycling race in NewWest Grant Granger
ggranger@newwestrecord.ca
The telling sign of an inaugural event’s success is if there’s a second annual one – and the early indications are there will be for the New Westminster Grand Prix. The latest stop on the B.C. Superweek cycling series debuted Tuesday evening in downtown New West. At first blush, Coun. Patrick Johnstone,
an avid cyclist, believes it’s idea,” said Johnstone as he The crowds were rang his cowbell in support been good for the city, although he cautioned the final spectacular for a of the riders. verdict has yet to come in. Mark Ernsting, whose first-year event management company oper“We’ll have to have an analysis after it’s all done as ates the series, was pleased. to whether we met all of our “For a first-year effort, benchmarks as far as its sucthe city did a phenomecess. I’m excited. I think peonal job bringing the show to ple are excited to be seeing it. I haven’t New West.The crowds were spectacular heard anyone saying it hasn’t been a good for a first-year event, and they’re only going
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to see it grow over the next 10 years,” said Ernsting. New Westminster wasted little time distinguishing itself from the other races – there are nine in 10 days – with its topography.The course featured a steep incline on Eighth Street and a long one on Carnarvon Street with a quick descent down Sixth Street and another along Columbia. In the women’s race, only 18 of 61 riders finished Continued on page 8
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