It was around 10:30pm, one night in mid-July, when Lucas Towers got a phone call that would catapult his career to the next level.
Twenty-one at the time, the Brit had only a handful of races left on his calendar with his Spanish team, Caja Rural-Alea, his home for the last three seasons. Come the end of the year, however, and his under-23-level days would be up – he’d have to fend for himself.
