Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team 2007

Las Vegas – It all comes down to this.

After more than 100 races in 20 states over the past 40 weeks, the Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team goes after one more win in Thursday night’s season finale.

The WCSN USA Crits Final is also the last race in the 2007 USA Crits Championship Series.

WCSN.com will provide live coverage of the 37.2-mile (60 km) race along a fast, five-turn, one-kilometer course at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, situated near Interbike’s home at the Sands Convention Center.

Toyota-United’s sprint specialist Ivan Dominguez and B World Road Race Champion Ivan Stevic are among the 109 starters. Toyota-United is one of seven teams that will field a full complement of the maximum number of six riders.

Race-time temperatures, normally a concern in the desert heat, are expected to be in the mid 80s when the race goes off at 9:15 p.m. PDT.

Only one of Dominguez’s 14 wins of the season has come at a USA Crit Series event (the Wells Fargo Twilight Criterium in Boise, Idaho). He stands a team-best 13th place in the individual series standings while Toyota-United lies eighth in the team standings.

Frank Travieso (AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork) is the individual USA Crit Series leader while his squad leads the team standings over the Abercrombie & Fitch Pro Development Cycling Team.

Before the men’s pro race Thursday, an inaugural “industry cup” race will go off, featuring two sponsors of the Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team. Bicycling Magazine and Fuji Bicycles are both fielding four-man squads for the 25-mile (40 km) race that will take place on the same course as the professionals.