The 2014 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup returned to action on Saturday with round five in Argentina after a nearly three-month hiatus. It was a good day for Team USA as Felicia Stancil (Lake Villa, Ill./GT Bicycles), Connor Fields (Henderson, Nev./ Chase/Monster), and Corben Sharrah (Tucson, Ariz./Haro Bicycles) time trialed onto the podium in the Time Trial Superfinals.
Fields, who won both the time trial and the supercross contest in Argentina last year, was the eleventh man out of the gate in the men's event and he sat in the hot seat until the final rider, Liam Phillips (GBR), beat his time with a 31.686.
Fields said that the track in Santiago del Estero is his favorite on the World Cup circuit. "I think it's the fact that it's challenging but you can still go all out, as fast as you can for the entire lap," he said from the hot seat right before Phillips took over his position.
With a time of 31.746, Fields secured the number-two spot just