Title sponsor Rally has given the former Optum Pro Cycling team new funding and a new orange look for 2016, but their overall objectives remain the same: to win bike races on the domestic calendar. Their sprinter Eric Young is just the man for the job, and he is aiming to bring the team success on the national calendar, and at the Tour of California, Tour of Utah and the USA Pro Challenge.
“My goals have always been to have success at the biggest races available to me, which means I am very focused on all three major US races,” Young told Cyclingnews in an interview over the phone ahead of Rally Cycling's official training camp. “Therefore, my ambitions are the same as the last few years: to win a stage of California, Utah, and Colorado.”
Young’s drive to win stages at the three bigger US stage races stems from his previous success over the past two years, particularly at the Tour of Utah where he has won two stages; stage 5 into Kamas in 2014 and stage 4 into Heber Valley in 2015.
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“I’ve become very fond of the Tour of Utah over the past two years through the pain and success that its beautiful roads have brought me,” Young said. “And of course, having California earlier in the season makes it the first major goal for most domestic riders. “
Aside from his podium performances against WorldTour teams while they are racing in North America, Young is a fairly regular winner on the domestic and international circuits. He’s won two stages of the Tour of the Gila, two stages at Tour of Korea, two stages at the Grand Prix Cycliste Saguenay, Vuelta a Mexico and he won the White Spot Delta Road Race, all UCI races in the past two seasons.
Young said he'd like to continue progressing in UCI-sanctioned events, where he believes that he still has room to develop as a sprinter.
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