Tristan Saunders (Staff Brennan p/b TP32) gained the Squadron Grafton to Inverell Traditional, claiming the fifth spherical of racing within the ProVelo Super League forward of Zachary Marriage (Butterfields Ziptrak).
Brendon Davids (Staff Brennan p/b TP32) joined his teammate Saunders on the rostrum, taking third within the 228km race with 3,382m of climbing and a historical past of greater than 60 years.
The race was pulled aside a number of occasions, with the stress on because the occasion hit the important thing climb within the Gibraltar Vary at 70km and never letting up for lengthy after.
“Within the center part after the highest of the climb we had been simply throughout it,” stated Saunders in an interview put out on Provelo Super League Instagram . “We needed the race to maintain going so long as we will to cease CCACHE and Cam Scott from getting again and we did that completely and as quickly as he rejoined we simply lit it up once more and all of it cut up up.”
It got here all the way down to a splash to the road between Saunders and Marriage, with Davids and William Cooper (St George) then coming over the road three seconds additional again to take the third and fourth spots.
With only one spherical of the brand new prime tier home race sequence, Jack Ward Staff Brennan p/b TP32 stays on the prime of the general and U/23 ProVelo Tremendous League leaderboard on 381 factors regardless of lacking the Grafton to Inverell so he might participate within the Australian mountain bike championships. Marriage is sitting in second with 338 factors.
The debut season, the place a stagiaire contract with Jayco-AlUla is up for grabs for the underneath 23 victor, concludes at Queensland’s four-stage Q Tour from March 21-23.
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High 10
Place
Rider
Time
1
Tristan Saunders (Staff Brennan p/b TP32)
5:38:51
2
Zachary Marriage (Butterfields Ziptrak)
Row 1 – Cell 2
3
Brendon Davids (Staff Brennan p/b TP32)
+3
4
William Cooper (St George)
Row 3 – Cell 2
5
Sam Jenner (Cobra9 Leigh Surveyors)
+30
6
Hugh Sessini (St George)
Row 5 – Cell 2
7
Joshua Cranage (Butterfields Ziptrak)
Row 6 – Cell 2
8
Nick Thompson (Velofit)
Row 7 – Cell 2
9
Will Heath (CCACHE-Bodywrap)
Row 8 – Cell 2
10
Julian Baudry (Staff Brennan p/b TP32)
+1;31
