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Tattersall's Cup - NE
Australia, July 28-August 25, 2004
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Race 2 - August 4: Tour of Latrobe City
McLachlan victory despite disaster drive
Barcelona Olympian Robbie McLachlan overcame a horror overnight drive from Canberra to Traralgon to win the Tour of Latrobe City cycling classic yesterday. McLachlan, 33, a schholteacher by profession left Canberra at 4pm Tuesday for the 500km trek to the Latrobe Valley but his car lights failed around midnight at Cann River. He spent a cold, uncomfortable and sleepless few hours in his vehicle before making off for Traralgon at daybreak yesterday.
McLachlan won the 125km event on a testing windswept circuit from Tour of Italy stage winner David McKenzie, with former rowing champion Dominic Gatto, third. The race was the second round of the 2004 Tattersall's Cup, a five-part Herald Sun Tour selection trial series which McLachlan won last year.
"I felt pretty wretched throughout most of the race but just had enough power in my legs to escape from David and Dominic over the last kilometre," McLachlan said.
Out-right leader in the Tattersall's Cup after the first two races is the consistent New South Welshman, Peter Milostic, who finished second in last week's City of Wyndham Classic and sixth yesterday. Milostic has 38 points, one more that Bendigo's David Pell. Three riders are hot on their tails, with 35 points each - Hector Morales from Uruguay, and William Walker and Dominic Gatto, both from Brunswick.
Mathew Rex, last week's Wyndham City Classic race winner, ran into some awful luck on yesterday's race, sustaining a puncture just 5km after the start. To his credit he finished the race and is sixth overall in the aggregate points.
McLachlan and McKenzie were scratchings in the Wyndham City Classic last week after arriving in Melbourne from the Tour of Qinghai Lake just four hours before the start time for the race in Werribee.
Also debuting in race two was the Indonesian contingent. Traveling from average temperatures of 35 degrees in Surabaya to just 2 degrees in Melbourne last Friday night took its toll. None of the Indonesian entrants managed to place in the top 50 riders but Samai, Wanwan Setyobudi and Adi Wibowo finished the Tour of Latrobe City.
Results
1 Robert McLachlan 3.03.21 2 David McKenzie 0.03 3 Dominic Gatto 0.06 4 David Pell 1.12 5 William Walker 1.15 6 Peter Milostic 1.19 7 Hector Morales 1.20 8 Christopher Bradford 9 George Vallins 1.38 10 Daniel Newnham 1.46 11 Samuel Rix 12 Christopher Tymms 13 Matthew Lloyd 14 Tim Walker 15 Trent Stevenson 16 Matthew Goold 17 Tony Challinor 18 David Hiley 19 Peter Pape 20 Daniel McConnell 21 James Meadley 22 Andy Graham 23 Tim Decker 24 Tony Mann 25 Stephen Cunningham 26 Col Thornton 1.53 27 Tim Buchanan 1.54 28 Sean Finning 1.56 29 Marc Williams 1.59 30 Scott Guyton 2.02 31 Brad Edmunds 5.19 32 Johnny Walker 33 David Turner 5.38 34 Evan Corry 10.52 35 Scott Lyttle 36 Joshua Wilson 37 Peter Ladd 38 Daniel Furmston 39 James Maebus 40 Trent Perry 41 Brent Skippen 42 Michael Teggelove 43 Daniel Bennett 44 David Kemp 45 Anthony Smith 46 John Mackenzie 47 Sam Bach 48 Ryan Moody 49 Stephen Rossendell 50 Darren Lapthorne 51 Peter Mueller 52 Phil Gough 53 Matthew Rex 54 Damien Turner 11.34 55 Jonathan Tainsh 11.40 56 Ashley Hayat 57 Craig Johnson 12.26 58 Dennis Markouris 18.32 59 Warren Nelson 24.39 60 Grant Webster 28.37 61 Ross Machejefski 62 Cameron Wise 63 Samai 64 Andrew Wyper 34.47 65 Travis Johnston 66 Tommy Nankervis 67 Gerard Murphy 68 Daniel Nelms 69 Wanwan Setyobudi 70 Dylan Newell 42.11 71 William Murray 72 Marc Hooper 73 Yvor Bucek 74 Adi Wibowo 75 Cameron Streistermanis DNF Matnur DNF Damian Forster DNF Julian Blackwell DNF Stephen Blair DNF Dylan Boone DNF Jarrod Clark DNF Gaethan Cutri DNF Christopher D'amelio DNF Ben Edwards DNF Ross Edwards DNF Damian Harbison DNF Matthew Heath DNF Jason Hegert DNF Heath Keenan DNF Lucien Keene DNF Casey Munro DNF Justin Quinton DNF Paul Richards DNF Heath Riley DNF Lee Robinson DNF Patrick Varas DNF Simon Walker DNF Chirs Winn DNF Samuel Lee Overall standing after two races 1 Peter Milostic 38 pts 2 David Pell 37 3 Dominic Gatto 35 4 Hector Morales 35 5 William Walker 35 6 Mathew Rex 26 7 Daniel Newnham 25 8 Matthew Lloyd 24 9 Stephen Cunningham 23 10 Robert McLachlan 23 11 Samuel Rix 22 12 David McKenzie 21 13 Tony Mann 19 14 George Vallins 17 15 Christopher Bradford 16 16 James Meadley 16 17 Ryan Moody 14 18 Christopher Tymms 14 19 Dylan Newell 12 20 Timothy Walker 12 21 Sean Finning 11 22 Trent Stevenson 11 Mountains classification 1 David McKenzie 15 pts 2 James Meadley 13 3 Robert McLachlan 10 4 Peter Milostic 8 5 Scott Guyton 7 6 William Walker 6 7 Dominic Gatto 3 8 Sean Finning 2 9 Casey Munro 2 10 Ashley Baines 1 Sprint classification 1 James Meadley 20 pts 2 Peter Milostic 17 3 David McKenzie 10 4 Sean Finning 8 5 Tim Buchanan 6 6 Ashley Baines 4 7 Andrew Graham 4 8 Robert McLachlan 4 9 Dominic Gatto 3 10 Scott Guyton 3 11 Mathew Rex 3 12 David Tanner 3 13 Tim Decker 2 14 Tony Mann 2 15 Daniel Newnham 1
