Results and Reports for February 27, 2001

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Eastern Suburbs CC Criterium

Eastern Suburbs CC Criterium

Heffron Park, Maroubra, NSW, February 27, 2001

After 9 weeks of the 2001 Summer Criterium Series, the racing at Heffron Park continues to prove as unpredictable as ever with C Grade thwarting the handicap by staying away to win their first race outright in the Series. Winner Lee Kaliski was able to take advantage of some strong turns by C Grade strongman David Johanson and a somewhat slow start by A grade.

A grade lost some 40 seconds on lap one as they ambled around the 2 km circuit, before turning the pace up to 45 km/h. As a result, some over enthusiastic B grade riders attempted to 'lap' A grade on the first lap, although things quickly separated when the speed increased. A nasty fall on lap 7 took out one of the Korean riders, with several others coming to grief in the Heffron Park grass and missing the cut. Once things settled down, A grade were still able to make up the full lap handicap with 2 laps to go in the fast and incredibly humid conditions.

B grade had already taken up the sprint points on 7, 5 and 3 to go and with C grade contesting overall honours, the remaining 15 strong A and B bunch were left to fight over 1st place for each grade. Liam Kelly impressively won the bunch sprint while Scott Nolan took out 1st B Grade.

There were no changes to the top of the overall poinstcore and with 4 weeks remaining there's still plenty of good racing left.

Results

1 Lee Kaliski (Eastern Suburbs)
2 Victor Pires (Eastern Suburbs) 
3 David Johanson (Eastern Suburbs) 
4 Chris Jenkins (Randwick Botany)
5 Clive Hammerson (Randwick Botany)
 
1st A Grade
Liam Kelly (Eastern Suburbs) 
 
1st B Grade
Scott Nolan (Sutherland) 

Series Pointscore after Round 8

1 Stewart Campbell     24 pts
2 Stuart Dangerfield   19
3 Paul Rowney          18
4 Laurence Vignes      18
5 Anthony Spurgeon     12
 
Sprint King (A&B Grades)

1 John Sunde           56 pts
2 Stewart Campbell     53
3 Stuart Dangerfield   26
4 T Sinclair           22
5 Paul Rowney          20
 
C Grade Pointscore

1 David Johanson       21 pts
2 Simon Harding        13
3 Nick Bisello         11
4 Lee Kaliski          8
5 Tony Caruana         6