Tour of the Southern Grampians - NEHamilton, Australia, August 2, 2000Tighello hits the leadSt Kilda's Robert Tighello took over the overall lead of the Tattersall's Cup after winning the third round, the Tour of the Southern Grampians. Tighello led home Melbourne's Paul Redenbach and Carnegie teammate Hilton Clarke after the three were part of the decisive seven rider breakaway group. Earlier, a four man break had threatened to steal the race, but were cuaght with 20 kilometres to go leaving Tighello to do what he does best - outsprint the fragments of the bunch for the win. The 23 points he gained from the race means that he now moves into the overall series lead with two races two go. This was made possible by his gaining 10 points for the first race of the series where he was initially disqualified.
Results - 165.5 km1 Robert Tighello (St Kilda) 4.05.57 23 pts 2 Paul Redenbach (Melbourne) 21 3 Hilton Clarke (Carnegie) 20 4 Tyson Lawrence (WA) 19 5 Robert Boag (St Kilda) 18 6 Stephen Cunningham (SA) 17 7 Chris White (Bendigo) 16 8 Rik McCaig (Bendigo) 0.24 15 9 David Mcpartland (NSW) 14 10 Gareth Atkins (Tasmania) 13 11 Matthew Jackson 12 12 Tim Decker 11 13 Leigh Egan 10 14 Garry Parsons 9 15 Jeremy Maartens 8 16 Cain Pasque 2.35 3 17 Stuart Cowin 3 18 Tim Wilson 3 19 Cameron Carlyle 3 20 James Taylor 3 21 Alex Havas 3 22 Todd Lorenz 3 23 Trent Perry 3 24 Murray Fenwick 3 25 Guy Green 3 26 Saul Pasque 3 27 Rhys Pollock 3 28 Andrew Mason 3.16 3 29 Heath Riley 3.37 3 30 Mark Laspina 3 31 Marcus Aquilina 8.34 3 32 Robert Young 3 33 Ian Chandler 18.40 3 34 Andrew Deters 3 35 Ben Jackson 3 36 Shane Mills 3 37 John Claxton 3 38 Paul Anders 26.08 3 39 Ben O’Leary 3 40 Michael Taffe 36.34 3 41 Anthony Di Battista 3 DNF John Baker 1 DNF Aaron Bigham 1 DNF Lindsay Burke 1 DNF Daniel Cutting 1 DNF Michael Knoff 1 DNF Joel Leonard 1 DNF Kelvin Martin 1 DNF River Rain 1 DNF Ian Smith 1 DNF Jerome Smith 1 Standings after three races: Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Total 1 Robert Tighello (St Kilda) 10 23 23 56 pts 2 Robert Boag (St Kilda) 19 18 18 55 3 David Mcpartland (NSW) 20 20 14 54 4 Hilton Clarke (Carnegie) 13 21 20 54 5 Paul Redenbach (Melbourne) 21 11 21 53 6 Tyson Lawrence (WA) 18 13 19 50 7 Leigh Egan (Shepparton) 23 14 10 47 8 Chris White (Bendigo) 14 17 16 47 9 Rik McCaig (Bendigo) 12 9 15 36 10 Rhys Pollock (NSW) 16 16 3 35 11 Jeremy Maartens (RSA) 8 19 8 35 12 Matthew Jackson 17 3 12 32 13 Matthew Rice 11 15 - 26 14 Gareth Atkins 1 12 13 26 15 Ben Day 15 3 - 18 16 Stephen Cunningham - - 17 17 17 Paul Anders 3 10 3 16 18 Tim Decker - 3 11 14 19 Garry Parsons 3 - 9 12 20 Caleb Manion 3 8 - 11 21 Brendan Gilhome 9 - - 9 22 Cain Pasque 3 3 3 9 23 Tim Wilson 3 3 3 9 24 Ben Jackson 3 3 3 9 25 James Taylor 3 3 3 9 26 Ben O’Leary 3 3 3 9 27 Robert Young 3 3 3 9 28 Trent Perry 3 3 3 9 29 Saul Pasque 1 3 3 7 30 Murray Fenwick 1 3 3 7 31 Stuart Cowin 1 3 3 7 32 Mark Laspina 1 3 3 7 33 Heath Riley 1 3 3 7 34 John Baker 3 3 1 7 35 Guy Green 1 3 3 7 36 Cameron Carlyle 1 3 3 7 37 Shane Mills 1 3 3 7 38 Ian Chandler 1 3 3 7 39 Joel Leonard 3 3 1 7 40 Zeth Romanis 3 3 - 6 41 Steven Williams 3 3 - 6 42 Andrew Mason - 3 3 6 43 Alex Havas - 3 3 6 44 Marcus Aqualina - 3 3 6 45 David Pell 3 3 - 6 46 Matthew Heath 3 3 - 6 47 Scott Suckling 3 3 - 6 48 Jerome Smith 1 3 1 5 49 John Claxton 1 1 3 5 50 Michael Taffe 1 1 3 5 51 River Rain 1 3 1 5 52 Nigel Dunstone 3 1 - 4 53 Trent Stevenson 3 1 - 4 54 Anthony Di Battista - 1 3 4 55 Simon Bone 1 3 - 4 56 Daniel Bellis 1 3 - 4 57 Bradley Scott 1 3 - 4 58 Chris Bradford - 3 - 3 59 Bevan Humphries - 3 - 3 60 John Forrest - 3 - 3 61 Jason Plowman - 3 - 3 62 Jayson Searle 3 - - 3 63 Graham Carlson 3 - - 3 64 Agostino Giramondo 3 - - 3 65 Paul Kenny 3 - - 3 66 Ian Smith 1 1 1 3 67 Michael Knoff 1 1 1 3 68 Andrew Deters - - 3 3 69 Todd Lorenz - - 3 3 70 Brett Provost 1 1 - 2 71 Morgan Barnes 1 1 - 2 72 Kelvin Martin 1 - 1 2 73 Wayne Anderson 1 - - 1 74 Phillip Orr 1 - - 1 75 Christopher Tymms 1 - - 1 76 Shaun Collins 1 - - 1 77 Justin Hogan 1 - - 1 78 Matthew Tuck 1 - - 1 79 Nick Pasharis 1 - - 1 80 Stephen Taylor 1 - - 1 81 Adam Wightwick 1 - - 1 82 Aaron Gullan 1 - - 1 83 Luke Robertson 1 - - 1 84 Neville Brodie 1 - - 1 85 Paul Forrest - 1 -- 1 86 Scott Bredden - 1 - 1 87 Jason Ryan - 1 1 1 88 Aaron Bigham - - 1 1 89 Lindsay Burke - - 1 1 90 Daniel Cutting - - 1 1 Thanks to Caribou Publications & Mark Chadwick for the results |