New Zealand's trio of U23 riders came to Richmond Worlds with high hopes for a top result, with Dion Smith, James Oram and Hayden McCormick aiming to put one of their own on the podium.
But a difficult race in tough conditions, with rain picking up for the final lap and turning the pair of cobbled climbs into a slip-and-slide, side-tracked those plans.
Oram, 22, said the race started out poorly for the team and then got worse from there.
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"I think we were kind of on the back foot to start," he said. "It was really, really hard to hold position on that course. None of us are really cobbled specialists on that climb, so we kind of really suffered there."
Despite the adversity, the trio attempted to get Smith up to the front on the final lap, but carnage on the cobbles put an end to the effort.
"We had him in good position on the second-to-last lap," Oram said. "But on the last lap someone just slid out and it was our day done really."
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