Originally Posted by
infestedguy1
One thing I noticed, which I didn't expect, was that close to half the field (31 riders) was made up of teams. I didn't think that would be much of a factor in a cat 5 race, but I was wrong. The top placing guys were all on teams. I haven't joined a team because I thought team tactics in a cat 5 race wouldn't really occur.
I think you are mixing cause and effect here. Just because they were "on teams" doesn't really mean there were any team tactics. Also you probably can't distinguish real teams from clubs. A lot of clubs also have racing teams, or just people from the clubs start racing, etc.