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Jayco Tour of Tasmania - NE
Australia, October 24-29, 2006
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Stage 10 - October 28: George Town - Scottsdale, 91.9 km
Stage set for nail-biting finale
By Rod Morris in Scottsdale
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Bad tactics in the penultimate stage may prove costly for Finland's Kjell Carlstrom in the $40,000 Jayco Tour of Tasmania, which will reach its climax in Launceston on Sunday.
Carlstrom lost 15 seconds to tour leader Kristian House (England) in Saturday morning's George Town Criterium stage to lag 27 seconds behind and with no change to that in the afternoon climb to Scottsdale, must re-think his strategy for the 34 km Launceston Criterium final stage.
Tattersall's Cup leader Wesley Sulzberger and his nearest challenger, Robert McLachlan (ACT) were the big winners yesterday, featuring in a dual quinella. After finishing second to McLachlan in the morning, Sulzberger reversed the placings at Scottsdale.
He will carry a 33-point lead in the Tattersall's Cup into the final stage and must the finish line upright to ensure one of his biggest career victories. Carlstrom allowed House to take too many time bonuses in the morning race and then missed the early break group in the afternoon and missed out on the King of the Mountain time bonuses as well.
But with three lower order riders in the breakaway group, Carlstrom still held on to win the Tamar Valley Resort King of the Mountain Championship.
The Events Tasmania Sprint Championship will see Patrick Shaw (Victoria) take a 17-point lead into the final stage, whilst in the Country Club Tasmania Criterium Championship, Wesley Sulzberger leads McLachlan by 9-points.
The final stage will include 15 intermediate sprints, which means Carlstrom will have to be on his game early to reel in House. But to throw a spanner in the works for Carlstrom could be Shaw, who needs the points to ensure he wins the sprinter's title.
There are so many scenarios that it guarantees the final stage will be an exciting one.
How it unfolded
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Former Finland national road champion Kjell Carlstrom made a bad tactical error in the afternoon climb from George Town to Scottsdale over 91.9 km, the longest race of the tour. Carlstrom had handed back 15 seconds to tour leader Kristian House (England) in the morning stage criterium at George Town, but was presented with six hill climbs one Category 2 and three Category 3 rates in which to peg the clock back.
But Carlstrom - along with all other GC challengers - ignored three young riders - Chris Jory (NSW), Reuben Young (SA) and Daniel Furmston (Tasmania), who jumped off the front of the pack as soon as the race started in George Town.
Jory, Young and Furmston were away for 77 km before the peloton eventually reeled them in. Whilst none of the young trio of escapees were a threat to GC, they were allowed some leeway, but the damage they did to Carlstrom was in the intermediate sprints and king of the mountain sprints, taking away the time bonuses that Carlstrom should have been claiming.
When the trio were eventually caught there was only one KOM left and that was taken by Victorian teenager William Ford ahead of Tasmanian duo Ryan Sullivan and Josh Wilson.
Young and Jory to their credit were able to hang on to the peleton and both claimed top 10 finishes, whilst Furmston was spent and limped across the finish line in 19th place, losing 2.20 minutes on the winner.
Sulzberger and McLachlan mirrored the quinella from the morning stage, while Queensland's David Kemp finished third in a bunch sprint.
Sulzberger's win maintained his 33-point lead over McLachlan in the Tattersall's Cup and with only one stage remaining, needs only to stay upright and get to the finish line.
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- Reuben Young of South Australia was part of a three man breakaway that formed at the start of stage ten.
- The peloton head for the hills on the 91.9km longest stage of the Tour.
- Wes Sulzberger (South Australia.com) has the 2006 Tattersall's Cup Cycling Series all but wrapped up.
- A lighter moment in the peloton between Tim Buchanan (L) and Craig McCartney.
- Eugen Schilter from South Australia gets a cheeky break on the peloton.
- Some local spectators as the leaders open up a gap of almost three minutes on the peloton.
- The chasing peloton on a climb approaching Lilydale.
- Riders hop over a rail-crossing just past Lilydale.
- William Ford (Jayco/VIS) leads the peloton onto a steep climb outside of Lilydale.
- The peloton would soon drop riders on this climb out of Lilydale.
- Josh Wilson (TIS/Cyclingnews.com) leads the field up the climb and himself into the top ten on GC.
- Chris Jory leads Daniel Furmston and Reuben Young over the climb near Lebrina.
- The peloton struggle up another short but steep climb out of Lebrina.
- The chasing pack descend making up time on the leading trio.
- The Tour's top three on GC - (L-R) Kristian House (1st), Scott Peoples (3nd), and Kjell Carlstrom (2nd) back in the chasing group.
- The peloton are closing in on the leaders who have been away for 77kms.
- Furmston, Young and Jory are still giving their all some twenty kms from the finish.
- Daniel Furmston (Praties) has been an improving local rider on the Tour.
- Chris Jory from New South Wales on the drop-bars and driving the leaders towards the finish.
- The gap was down to less than thirty seconds approaching Scottsdale.
- Wes Sulzberger (South Australia.com) was too strong for rival Robert McLachlan to win the stage into Scottsdale.
- The stage ten podium - (L-R) Robert McLachlan (2nd), Wes Sulzberger (1st), and David Kemp (3rd).
- Dorset Mayor, Peter Partridge, presents Patrick Shaw with his Events Tasmania Sprint Points Championship leader's jersey with one stage remaining.
- Kjell Carlstrom from Finland will take out the Tamar Valley Resort King of the Mountains title with no points on offer at the final stage.
- Hey, How easy is this? Tour leader Kristian House has just one stage to complete before celebrating a well deserved Tour victory.
- Another day in the saddle... Now time for some R&R perhaps before the final day in Launceston.
Results
1 Wesley Sulzberger 2.25.33 2 Robert McLachlan 0.01 3 David Kemp 4 Joshua Wilson 5 Daniel Braunsteins 6 Ryan Sullivan 7 Reuben Young 8 Chris Jory 9 Kristian House 10 Kjell Carlstrom 11 Scott Peoples 12 Hayden Josefski 13 Johnnie Walker 14 Mark O'Brien 15 William Ford 0.06 16 Nathan Earle 17 Matthew McDonagh 18 Craig McCartney 19 Daniel Furmston 2.20 20 Jack Alexander 5.00 21 Ricky Peoples 22 Cameron Hughes 8.05 23 Jack Anderson 24 Cameron Wurf 25 Andrew Hanigan 26 Tim Buchanan 27 Nathan Clarke 28 William Robinson 29 Joshua Chugg 30 Jarrod Harman 8.16 31 Patrick Shaw 32 Timothy Walker 33 Simon Brown 12.09 34 Michael Fitzgerald 35 Darcy Rosenlund 36 Simon Pearson 37 Paul Logan 13.42 38 Eugen Schilter 14.17 39 Peter Herzig 19.44 40 Tim Guy 21.35 41 Christos Winter 42 Jason Johnson 43 Stephen Wooldridge Sprints Sprint #1: Mocha 36 - Karoola General Store 1 Daniel Furmston 3 pts 2 Reuben Young 2 3 Chris Jory 1 Sprint #2: Mocha 49 - Lilydale Tavern 1 Daniel Furmston 3 pts 2 Chris Jory 2 3 Reuben Young 1 Sprint #3: Mocha 64 - Lebrina Market 1 Daniel Furmston 3 pts 2 Reuben Young 2 3 Chris Jory 1 Sprint #4: Mocha 71 - Pass Fernyhill Rd & Golconda Sign 1 Daniel Furmston 3 pts 2 Reuben Young 2 3 Chris Jory 1 Mountains Climb #1: Cat.4 Mocha 19 - Gravel Rd on Right 1 Chris Jory 3 pts 2 Daniel Furmston 2 3 Reuben Young 1 Climb #2: Cat.3 Mocha 38 - Bridge 1 Chris Jory 5 pts 2 Daniel Furmston 3 3 Reuben Young 2 Climb #3: Cat.2 Mocha 55 - Bridge 1 Chris Jory 7 pts 2 Daniel Furmston 5 3 Reuben Young 3 Climb #4: Cat.4 Mocha 66 - Pass Cloverhill Rd 1 Chris Jory 3 pts 2 Daniel Furmston 2 3 Reuben Young 1 Climb #5: Cat.3 Mocha 73 - Bridge 1 Chris Jory 5 pts 2 Daniel Furmston 3 3 Reuben Young 2 Climb #6: Cat.3 Mocha 87 - Large Drain on left 1 William Ford 5 pts 2 Ryan Sullivan 3 3 Joshua Wilson 2 General classification after stage 10 1 Kristian House 14.09.53 2 Kjell Carlstrom 0.27 3 Scott Peoples 1.17 4 David Kemp 1.48 5 Wesley Sulzberger 2.02 6 Mark O'Brien 2.33 7 Robert McLachlan 3.16 8 Joshua Wilson 3.47 9 Craig McCartney 4.03 10 Johnnie Walker 4.51 11 William Ford 4.53 12 Ryan Sullivan 4.59 13 Hayden Josefski 7.13 14 Reuben Young 7.39 15 Daniel Braunsteins 9.48 16 Matthew McDonagh 10.02 17 Ricky Peoples 10.56 18 Cameron Hughes 12.40 19 Jack Anderson 16.43 20 Chris Jory 19.16 21 Nathan Clarke 28.39 22 Simon Pearson 29.04 23 Cameron Wurf 29.58 24 Timothy Walker 32.42 25 Daniel Furmston 32.43 26 Patrick Shaw 34.50 27 Tim Buchanan 36.47 28 Peter Herzig 37.25 29 Jack Alexander 38.51 30 William Robinson 44.55 31 Michael Fitzgerald 50.59 32 Darcy Rosenlund 52.46 33 Joshua Chugg 53.16 34 Stephen Wooldridge 54.20 35 Paul Logan 54.48 36 Eugen Schilter 1.00.29 37 Tim Guy 1.02.13 38 Jarrod Harman 1.14.34 39 Nathan Earle 1.19.51 40 Christos Winter 1.23.41 41 Andrew Hanigan 1.28.21 42 Jason Johnson 1.41.49 43 Simon Brown 1.46.45 Most aggressive rider classification 8 Sean Finning 4 pts 1 Kjell Carlstrom 2 2 Kristian House 2 4 Robert McLachlan 2 5 David Kemp 2 13 Patrick Shaw 2 15 Scott Peoples 2 17 Peter Herzig 2 36 Daniel Furmston 1 41 Chris Jory 1 59 Reuben Young 1 Sprint classification 1 Patrick Shaw 69 pts 2 Peter Herzig 52 3 Daniel Furmston 51 4 Kristian House 38 5 David Kemp 21 6 Scott Peoples 18 7 Kjell Carlstrom 14 8 Chris Jory 13 9 Tim Guy 11 10 Darcy Rosenlund 10 11 Cameron Hughes 9 12 Jason Johnson 8 13 Wesley Sulzberger 7 14 Reuben Young 7 15 Ryan Sullivan 6 16 Mark O'Brien 5 17 Jack Anderson 5 18 Daniel Braunsteins 5 19 Stephen Wooldridge 4 20 William Robinson 4 21 Ricky Peoples 4 22 Robert McLachlan 4 23 Johnnie Walker 4 24 Craig McCartney 3 25 Joshua Wilson 2 26 Timothy Walker 2 27 William Ford 1 28 Matthew McDonagh 1 29 Cameron Wurf 1 30 Tim Buchanan 1 Mountains classification 1 Kjell Carlstrom 30 pts 2 Chris Jory 23 3 Joshua Wilson 18 4 Scott Peoples 17 5 Daniel Furmston 15 6 Cameron Hughes 14 7 David Kemp 11 8 Kristian House 10 9 William Ford 10 10 Reuben Young 9 11 Timothy Walker 7 12 Peter Herzig 6 13 Patrick Shaw 6 14 Mark O'Brien 4 15 Ryan Sullivan 3 16 Robert McLachlan 3 17 Tim Guy 2 Criterium championship 1 Wesley Sulzberger 29 pts 2 Robert McLachlan 20 3 Scott Peoples 18 4 David Kemp 18 5 Ricky Peoples 16 6 Kjell Carlstrom 15 7 Kristian House 13 8 Peter Herzig 10 9 Chris Jory 8 10 Patrick Shaw 7 11 Daniel Braunsteins 7 12 Craig McCartney 6 13 Nathan Clarke 6 14 Joshua Wilson 6 15 Daniel Furmston 6 16 Tim Guy 5 17 Jarrod Harman 4 18 Stephen Wooldridge 4 19 Cameron Hughes 3 20 Mark O'Brien 3 21 Ryan Sullivan 1
