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<\/a>The recently launched Darkhorse-AutoDen Racing team is relishing taking on the 2016 aQuell\u00e9 Tour Durban on Sunday 24 April. They will be represented by Tyler Day (left), Jaco van Dyk (second left), Herman Fouche (third left), Armand Mouton (second right) and Dennis van Niekerk (right) at the clash while team member and manager Dusty Day (third right) will not participate. Cycle Nation\/ Gameplan Media<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWithout a doubt we want to win it this year!\u201d confirmed team member and manager Dusty Day, who himself will miss the clash due to his involvement in the Panorama Tour over the same period.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the past few years, as members of other teams, we\u2019ve been right up there and in the mix.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe old Abantu team \u2013 a lot of whom are now riding for Telkom \u2013 have often just managed to edge us out though and it\u2019s now time to stop that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Having only finalized team arrangements mid-way through March this year, the aQuell\u00e9 Tour Durban comes at the perfect time for the upcountry outfit as they look to announce their arrival on the local cycling scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cTyler (Day) obviously did really nicely for us at the Cape Town Cycle Tour and we had our first official race as a team at the Emperor\u2019s Palace Classic this past weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Tour Durban is however definitely one of the biggest events on our calendar and it couldn\u2019t be better timed for us after our recent launch!\u201d continued Day.<\/p>\n
With his brother, Tyler, set to be in the mix once more at this year\u2019s Tour Durban, Day is also thrilled to have Herman Fouche on the start line for the team.<\/p>\n
Fouche finished second in both the 2012 and 2013 aQuell\u00e9 Tour Durban while raced to a close fifth place last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cHerman is a great rider and if there is a breakaway he will certainly be the one to try get himself into that and cover that option for us.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe nature of the course though, especially the final few kilometers, it is probably more suited to Tyler\u2019s strengths should it come down to a sprint finish once again.<\/p>\n
\u201cUsually I am the one to try lead Tyler out in those situations but, with me not being there, Herman will be the one to try set Tyler up for the final sprint this time!\u201d elaborated Day.<\/p>\n
The 105km road race, 45km fun race and 55km cyclocross race take place on Sunday 24 April 2016. Late entries will be taken at registration at Suncoast Casino & Entertainment World from 10h00-17h00 on Friday, 22 and Saturday, 23 April. More information can be found at www.tourdurban.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new team on the block perhaps but they\u2019re certainly no strangers to the South African Road Racing circuit or the aQuell\u00e9 Tour Durban and as such the Darkhorse\u2013AutoDen Racing team is relishing tackling this year\u2019s edition of the 105km event on Sunday, 24 April. With the likes of Tyler Day and Herman Fouche in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1440,2897,429],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-18361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-aquelle-tour-durban","tag-darkhorse-autoden-racing","tag-tour-durban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18361"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=18361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}