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Harris+Harris Jack Wierzbicki Prestige Criterium #3
July 14, 2004
By Peter McCaffery
Tonights's race was slightly slower than usual, with the wind coming out of the south east and high humidity. After 6 laps, a break developed containing: Kevin Speacht (Cavern Cycles), Shawn Glass and Bruce Krip (Midweek), Joe Giuliano (Ital Pasta/Belmire Transport), Ed Makarchuk (KHS), and Heath Cockburn (La Bicicletta). By the next lap this group had grown to 11, with a second chase group of 7 about 10 seconds down. But the peloton woke up and all were together by lap 8. For the next 5 laps there were a few half-hearted attempts to form another break and on lap 14, Speacht got clear with Atkins, Cockburn and Makarchuk. They were joined within a lap by Giuliano, Don Zuck (Pavan), and Matt Shandro (Independent). This turned out to be the deciding move of the race and the septet steadily increased its lead, losing Makarchuk and then Shandro over the next 5 laps.
Midweek, Pavan and La Bicicletta were now controlling the bunch and the gap hovered between 25 and 45 seconds. In the last few kilometers, the bunch picked up the pace a notch but at the line, it was Heath Cockburn easily out-sprinting the 48 year old Zuck, withSpeacht, Giuliano and Atkins filling in the top 5 places. The bunch came in only 12 seconds down with Darko Ficko (La Bicicletta) winning the gallop from Dave Fry (Midweek) and Dan Lefebvre (Gears Racing). Heath Cockburn now leads the prestige series with 25 points followed by Chris Atkins with 23 and Darko Ficko with 19. The Harris+Harris series is still led by Dan Lefebvre with 85 points; Cockburn is 2nd. with 75 and Atkins remains in 3rd. with 67.
Results, 63 km
1 Heath Cockburn (La Bicicletta) 1.29.42 2 Don Zuck (Pavan) 3 Kevin Speacht (Cavern Cycles) 4 Joe Giuliano (Ital Pasta) 5 Chris Atkins (Midweek Elite) 0.07 6 Darko Ficko (La Bicicletta) 0.12 7 Dave Fry (Midweek Elite) 8 Dan Lefebvre (Gears Racing) 9 Mark Shaw (Chain Reaction) 10 Rick Froner (Midweek CC) Prestige standings after 3 events 1 Heath Cockburn (La Bicicletta) 25 pts 2 Chris Atkins (Midweek Elite) 23 3 Darko Ficko (La Bicicletta) 19 4 Peter Morse (Midweek Elite) 18 5 Dan Lefebvre (Gears Racing) 14 6 Don Zuck (Pavan) 12 7 Paul Rego (Coach Chris) 11 8 Mark Shaw (Chain Reaction) 11 9 Ed Maset (Pavan) 9 10 Kevin Speacht (Cavern Cycles) 9 11 Joe Giuliano (Ital Pasta) 8 12 Roberto Zuech (Reynold Koolini RT) 8 13 Garnett Abbey (D'Ornellas) 7 14 Jerome Samson (Independent) 7 15 Chris Adams (Independent) 6 16 Dave Fry (Midweek Elite) 6 17 Paul Eugeni (Reynold Koolini RT) 5 18 Mark Polsinelli (Pavan) 5 19 Robert Sule (Chain Reaction) 5 Series standings after 11 events 1 Dan Lefebvre (Gears Racing) 85 pts 2 Heath Cockburn (La Bicicletta) 75 3 Chris Atkins (Midweek Elite) 67 4 Darko Ficko (La Bicicletta) 51 5 Peter Morse (Midweek Elite) 46 6 Ed Maset (Pavan) 41 7 Don Zuck (Pavan) 41 8 Ed Makarchuk (KHS) 28 9 Jeff Schiller (Gears Racing) 27 10 Jeff Hansen (Jet Fuel) 26 11 James Wadden (Cavern Cycles) 21 12 Mark Shaw (Chain Reaction) 20 13 Joe Giuliano (Ital Pasta) 18 14 Paul Rego (Coach Chris) 18 15 Shaun Glass (Midweek Elite) 17 16 Bruce Krip (Midweek Elite) 16 17 Mauro Martini (Pavan) 16 18 Carlos Barros (KHS) 14 19 Merrill Collins (La Bicicletta) 14 20 Michael Moore (Gears Racing) 14 21 Mike Rutledge (Pavan) 14 22 Paul Greene (Chain Reaction) 13 23 Mark Polsinelli (Pavan) 13 24 Kevin Speacht (Cavern Cycles) 13 25 Attila Hadju (MBRC) 12 26 Patrick Shea (KHS) 12
