“I thought I was gonna be able to pull it together last Monday. The guys with the money behind the team decided not to re-up. To run [the team] as a bare-bones thing could have been possible, but we started adding it all up and trying to achieve what we like to do, it just didn’t work. It needed to be a replication of the year before.”
The wonder affirmation got here at the heels of the 2025 USA Crits calendar announcement, a sequence ruled remaining 12 months via REIGN Hurricane Racing with a podium sweep of the elite males’s person standings, the entire going to Alfredo Rodriguez, and workforce class.
The workforce replicated good fortune at the American Criterium Cup circuit as smartly, Jordan Parra successful the entire, Danny Summerhill successful the dash identify and all the squad contributing to the workforce identify.
The present web page for the home elite squad, which shaped remaining 12 months from a change of Craven-led groups competing as Easiest Pals Racing and American Biking, touts the workforce’s domination on the best two one-day race sequence, pronouncing ‘See you subsequent 12 months!’ However that promise is now a plea for a comeback in 2026.
“All of the cycling industry partners that we had were all holding their breath and crossing their fingers we could pull it all off. But in the end, it was just unfortunate that we had to pull the plug. I mean, going into October [2024], I was 95% sure that we were moving on. Then things just kept getting pushed,” Craven famous.
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“It’s not my team, I work for the organisation. I loved being able to have that much input in the team. We were the dominant team out there in the States. It was a great, great time. It just sucks for this year.”
REIGN Hurricane Racing competed at a USA Biking-registered home elite workforce, with a focal point on one-day races in North The usa in addition to the few level races nonetheless closing at the home calendar. Rodriguez took signature wins at Sunny King Criterium and Greenville Biking Vintage whilst Parra had 12 podiums, together with 4 victories.
Summerhill was once at the podium at 5 main one-day races, together with 2d at Athens Twilight Criterium, and Bryan Gómez, the 2023 Athens Twilight champion, had 8 podiums, two of them wins. Colombian Jamie Alberto Castañeda was once prolifically a success with 5 race wins in Puerto Rico remaining summer season.
“We had a great formula for beating other competitors. I think everybody wants to win. It’s crazy how successful it was.”
Craven stated the gang checked out a base price range of with reference to $500,000 to fulfill operational prices for the workforce, with trip, insurance coverage, access charges and salaries outlined as the most important bills. Host housing relieved the price range in previous years for his groups, however that was once by no means a ensure. Craven stated it was once a concern to pay salaries for his or her riders, which isn’t at all times the case for different home groups.
“It costs a lot to get across the country. You add in paying riders and provide all the food, housing… We had some great partners as far as host housing goes. That was a huge saving, and I did all the cooking on the road.
“One rider texted me and stated ‘I’m going to trip without cost’. That was once an choice, however the determination was once made that it was once now not going to be a barebones try at a workforce. It was once a freaking blast. I’ll pass over it this 12 months,” Craven concluded.
There have been 12 riders at the roster in 2024. Gómez was once rumoured to have a brand new house with one of the vital Williams Racing Building groups, which operated L39ION of Los Angeles, Miami Blazers and Austin Outlaws remaining 12 months, whilst Parra was once taking a look to sign up for a brand new workforce in Florida.
