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Scody Cup Tour of Tasmania – NE
Australia, September 30-October 5, 2008
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Stage 4 - October 1: Burnie – Sulphur Creek, 71.4km
Dirty Dozen deny dreams for dangers
By Rod Morris in Burnie
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A group of riders – quickly dubbed the "Dirty Dozen" – put the Tour of Tasmania leader board into an absolute frenzy by the end of the second stage Tuesday. The tour's fourth stage – from Burnie to Sulphur Creek – saw the fourth new leader when Englishman Kristian House replaced West Australian Ben King on top of the general classification and he will wear the prized yellow jersey into battle on day three.
In a tight throw to the finish line, Savings & Loans' Joel Pearson beat home teenager SASI's Jack Bobridge by a hair's breath. It was Pearson's first ever victory in a Scody Cup series race and eclipses seven previous minor placings. House turned a third stage deficit of 1:27 minutes to King into a lead of nine seconds over talented Victorian, William Ford, while King was pushed back to third and 48 seconds behind.
The Tour of Tasmania is the fourth and final leg of the Scody Cup national cycling series and with 107 original entries is one of the largest events of its kind ever held in Australia. This year's Scody Cup series has included the Tour of Gippsland, Australian Grand Prix (Ballarat) and Tour of the Murray River, before riders and the official entourage crossed Bass Strait to contest the final six days of action on the Apple Isle.
How it unfolded
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Following such an arduous morning criterium, not many riders were relishing the prospect of the 71.4-kilometre afternoon road race from Burnie to Sulphur Creek. For those that competed in the same stage 12 months before, the memory of powerful rain and buffeting winds was still fresh in the memory and more than helped to dampen the enthusiasm.
But Tasmania's Northwest Coast fickle weather was on good behaviour although there were still erratic patterns throughout the afternoon. None of the riders who featured prominently in the morning stage gave a yelp on the road, but that was to be expected. Twenty kilometres into the stage, a breakaway group of 12 riders slipped innocuously off the front and the peloton didn't see them for the rest of the day.
The dozen escapees included the eventual top 10 stage finishers, Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans), Jack Bobridge (SASI), William Clarke (Praties), David Kemp (Virgin Blue), Kristian House (Budget Forklifts), Jonathon Lovelock (VIS/Jayco), Matt Benson (SASI), William Ford (SA/AIS), Daniel Furmston (Praties) and Lachlan Stewart (Cycle City Ballarat), as well as Rohan Dennis (SASI) and Peter Milostic (Budget Forklifts).
The group worked well together, although at times some of the team tactics employed did appear a little foreign to what many race experts were expecting and/or anticipating. House and Ford were the best placed riders on GC that were in the "Dirty Dozen" – House starting the stage 1:27 minutes adrift of leader Ben King and Ford a further eight seconds back.
All other riders in the breakaway bunch were no real threat to the GC leaders, although they did eventually peg back more than two minutes and with six stages still to race anything can – and most likely will – happen.
Photography
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- The lead group on a climb approaching ten kilometres to go to the finish on the 71.4 kilometre stage four from Burnie to Sulphur Creek
- Joel Pearson (far right) of Savings and Loans edges out Jack Bobridge (centre) of the South Australian Sports Institute team (SASI) and William Clarke (Praties) to claim stage four of the tour
- The stage four podium (l-r): Jack Bobridge (2nd,SASI), Joel Pearson (1st,Savings and Loans), and William Clarke (3rd,Praties)
- Beach-house: Englishman Kristian 'Winston' House is the new leader of the Caterpillar Underground Mining Tour of Tasmania after stage four; the tour has had four different leaders from four stages
Results
1 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 1.52.59 (37.92km/h) 2 Jack Bobridge (SASI) 3 William Clarke (Praties) 4 David Kemp (Virgin Blue) 5 Kristian House (Budget Forklifts) 6 Jonathon Lovelock (VIS/Jayco) 0.01 7 Matt Benson (SASI) 8 William Ford (South Australia/AIS) 9 Daniel Furmston (Praties) 10 Lauchlan Stewart (Cycle City Ballarat) 11 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 0.03 12 Peter Milostic (Budget Forklifts) 0.18 13 Leigh Howard (VIS/Jayco) 2.05 14 Dale Scarfe (Panasonic) 15 Nathan Clarke (Praties) 16 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) 17 Ben Mather (Praties) 18 Ben Grenda (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 19 Chris Jory (Panasonic) 20 Michael England (Budget Forklifts) 21 Aaron Donnelly (Central Coast/Simplot) 22 Michael Phelan (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 23 Vaughan Bowman (Hart/Ridewiser) 24 Brad Edmunds (Savings & Loans) 25 Will Robinson (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 26 Richard England (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 27 Stuart Shaw (Drapac Porsche) 28 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 29 Charles Howlett (Cycle City Ballarat) 30 Jack Anderson (Budget Forklifts) 31 Ashley Baines (Cycle City Ballarat) 32 Adam Semple (South Australia/AIS) 33 Peter Ladd (Budget Forklifts) 34 Tim Guy (Panasonic) 35 Luke Durbridge (Plan B Racing Team) 36 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 37 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 38 Tim Roe (Savings & Loans) 39 Cameron Hughes (Budget Forklifts) 40 Chris Luxton (Savings & Loans) 41 Johnnie Walker (South Australia/AIS) 42 Nick Walker (VIS/Jayco) 43 Hayden Brooks (Virgin Blue) 44 James Langedyk (VIS/Jayco) 45 Nathan Wise (Cycle City Ballarat) 46 Jason Rigg (Cannondale/Praties) 47 Henry Morley (Plan B Racing Team) 48 Ben Grieve Johnson (Praties) 49 Matthew Rice (Central Coast/Simplot) 50 Kane Walker (Hart/Ridewiser) 51 Caleb Manion (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 52 Adam Phelan (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 53 Andrew Roe (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 54 Peter Herzig (Panasonic) 55 Chris Martin (SASI) 56 Darren Rolfe (Virgin Blue) 57 Cameron Peterson (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 58 Shaun Mccarthy (Central Coast/Simplot) 59 Glenn O’Shea (VIS/Jayco) 60 Peter Mcdonald (Drapac Porsche) 61 Richie Porte (Praties) 62 Mark O’Brien (Drapac Porsche) 63 Matt King (South Australia/AIS) 64 James Ibrahim (Central Coast/Simplot) 3.49 65 Aaron Jones (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 4.32 66 Mark Isaacs (Cycle City Ballarat) 67 Matthew Mcdonagh (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 68 Tommy Nankervis (Virgin Blue) 69 Mark Jamieson (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 70 Michael Hepburn (Virgin Blue) 71 Scott Cronly-Dillon (Cycle City Ballarat) 72 Tim Decker (Central Coast/Simplot) 73 Neil Manning (Plan B Racing Team) 74 Stefan Kirsch (Hart/Ridewiser) 75 Tom Robinson (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 76 Jason Hegert (Panasonic) 77 Sean Finning (VIS/Jayco) 78 Will Dickeson (Savings & Loans) 79 Dylan Newell (Praties) 80 Tim Walker (Cannondale/Praties) 81 Daniel Mcintyre (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 82 Joshua Page (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 83 Russell Gill (Savings & Loans) 5.43 84 Michael Verheyen (Plan B Racing Team) 7.13 85 Danny Pulbrook (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 86 Jeremy Hills (Cannondale/Praties) 87 Peter Howard (Hart/Ridewiser) 88 Mathew Camilleri (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 89 Gene Bates (Drapac Porsche) 90 William Alexander (Virgin Blue) 91 Sean Boyle (SASI) 92 Joshua Wilson (Cannondale/Praties) 93 Luke Ockerby (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 94 Abram Manion (Budget Forklifts) 95 Sam Brett (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 14.14 96 Peter Loft (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 97 Tony Chandler (Hart/Ridewiser) 98 Kyle Marwood (Central Coast/Simplot) 99 Patrick Gill (Plan B Racing Team) Sprints Ridgley Primary Sc 1 Jack Bobridge (SASI) 3 pts 2 Peter Milostic (Budget Forklifts) 2 3 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 1 Caltex Roadhouse 1 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 3 pts 2 Jonathon Lovelock (VIS/Jayco) 2 3 Matt Benson (SASI) 1 House on Right 1 Peter Milostic (Budget Forklifts) 3 pts 2 Lauchlan Stewart (Cycle City Ballarat) 2 3 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 1 Loyatena Strawberr 1 William Ford (South Australia/AIS) 3 pts 2 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 2 3 Peter Milostic (Budget Forklifts) 1 House No 804 1 Matt Benson (SASI) 3 pts 2 David Kemp (Virgin Blue) 2 3 William Ford (South Australia/AIS) 1 Natone Primary Sc 1 Kristian House (Budget Forklifts) 3 pts 2 Jonathon Lovelock (VIS/Jayco) 2 3 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 1 Mountains Cat 4 Tank on Right 1 David Kemp (Virgin Blue) 3 pts 2 Vaughan Bowman (Hart/Ridewiser) 2 3 Peter Mcdonald (Drapac Porsche) 1 Cat 4 Letterbox No 746 1 David Kemp (Virgin Blue) 3 pts 2 Daniel Furmston (Praties) 2 3 Charles Howlett (Cycle City Ballarat) 1 Cat 4 Water Tank 1 Peter Milostic (Budget Forklifts) 3 pts 2 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 2 3 Matt Benson (SASI) 1 Cat 3 Granites Sign 1 Daniel Furmston (Praties) 5 pts 2 Peter Milostic (Budget Forklifts) 3 3 Matt Benson (SASI) 2 Cat 3 Letterbox No 332 1 Jonathon Lovelock (VIS/Jayco) 5 pts 2 William Ford (South Australia/AIS) 3 3 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 2 Cat 2 Gravel Track 1 David Kemp (Virgin Blue) 7 pts 2 Kristian House (Budget Forklifts) 5 3 William Ford (South Australia/AIS) 3 Cat 4 Bullock Ridge 1 David Kemp (Virgin Blue) 3 pts 2 Jonathon Lovelock (VIS/Jayco) 2 3 Daniel Furmston (Praties) 1 Teams 1 SASI 5.39.01 2 Praties 2.02 3 Budget Forklifts 2.19 4 Savings & Loans 4.06 5 Virgin Blue 6 VIS/Jayco 4.07 7 South Australia/AIS 8 Cycle City Ballarat 9 Panasonic 6.11 10 Tarkine Forest Adventures 11 Central Coast/Simplot 12 Drapac Porsche 13 Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD 8.38 14 DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS 15 Hart/Ridewiser 16 Plan B Racing Team 17 Cannondale/Praties 13.46 General classification after stage 4 1 Kristian House (Budget Forklifts) 4.56.06 2 William Ford (South Australia/AIS) 0.09 3 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 0.48 4 Jack Bobridge (SASI) 1.14 5 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 1.26 6 Tim Roe (Savings & Loans) 1.46 7 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 1.55 8 Leigh Howard (VIS/Jayco) 1.59 9 Peter Mcdonald (Drapac Porsche) 2.05 10 Caleb Manion (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 2.15 11 Cameron Peterson (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 2.17 12 Stuart Shaw (Drapac Porsche) 2.18 13 Michael England (Budget Forklifts) 2.21 14 Luke Durbridge (Plan B Racing Team) 2.23 15 Johnnie Walker (South Australia/AIS) 2.26 16 Chris Jory (Panasonic) 17 Tim Guy (Panasonic) 18 Richie Porte (Praties) 19 Mark O’Brien (Drapac Porsche) 20 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) 3.18 21 Peter Herzig (Panasonic) 3.21 22 Hayden Brooks (Virgin Blue) 3.27 23 Adam Semple (South Australia/AIS) 3.29 24 Ben Mather (Praties) 3.32 25 Nick Walker (VIS/Jayco) 26 Jack Anderson (Budget Forklifts) 27 Shaun Mccarthy (Central Coast/Simplot) 3.33 28 Cameron Hughes (Budget Forklifts) 29 Ben Grieve Johnson (Praties) 30 David Kemp (Virgin Blue) 5.17 31 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 5.19 32 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 5.32 33 Jonathon Lovelock (VIS/Jayco) 5.33 34 Daniel Furmston (Praties) 5.34 35 Vaughan Bowman (Hart/Ridewiser) 5.37 36 Glenn O’Shea (VIS/Jayco) 37 William Clarke (Praties) 5.38 38 Matt King (South Australia/AIS) 5.40 39 Richard England (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 5.41 40 Ashley Baines (Cycle City Ballarat) 41 Dylan Newell (Praties) 5.59 42 Gene Bates (Drapac Porsche) 7.28 43 Nathan Clarke (Praties) 7.39 44 Brad Edmunds (Savings & Loans) 7.46 45 Ben Grenda (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 7.47 46 James Langedyk (VIS/Jayco) 7.48 47 Michael Phelan (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 7.49 48 Jason Rigg (Cannondale/Praties) 49 Nathan Wise (Cycle City Ballarat) 50 Adam Phelan (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 51 Darren Rolfe (Virgin Blue) 52 Matt Benson (SASI) 9.54 53 Matthew Rice (Central Coast/Simplot) 9.57 54 Chris Luxton (Savings & Loans) 55 Lauchlan Stewart (Cycle City Ballarat) 9.59 56 Sean Finning (VIS/Jayco) 10.12 57 James Ibrahim (Central Coast/Simplot) 11.36 58 Andrew Roe (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 12.02 59 Dale Scarfe (Panasonic) 12.04 60 Charles Howlett (Cycle City Ballarat) 61 Aaron Donnelly (Central Coast/Simplot) 12.05 62 Peter Ladd (Budget Forklifts) 63 Kane Walker (Hart/Ridewiser) 64 Peter Milostic (Budget Forklifts) 12.14 65 Michael Hepburn (Virgin Blue) 12.19 66 Tommy Nankervis (Virgin Blue) 12.24 67 Mark Jamieson (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 68 Jason Hegert (Panasonic) 69 Chris Martin (SASI) 12.31 70 Henry Morley (Plan B Racing Team) 14.08 71 Mark Isaacs (Cycle City Ballarat) 14.22 72 Tom Robinson (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 14.27 73 Neil Manning (Plan B Racing Team) 14.29 74 Daniel Mcintyre (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 14.32 75 Sean Boyle (SASI) 15.05 76 William Alexander (Virgin Blue) 77 Tim Walker (Cannondale/Praties) 15.36 78 Russell Gill (Savings & Loans) 15.37 79 Jeremy Hills (Cannondale/Praties) 15.41 80 Stefan Kirsch (Hart/Ridewiser) 16.40 81 Tim Decker (Central Coast/Simplot) 82 Abram Manion (Budget Forklifts) 17.13 83 Matthew Mcdonagh (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 18.38 84 Aaron Jones (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 18.43 85 Will Dickeson (Savings & Loans) 86 Joshua Wilson (Cannondale/Praties) 19.16 87 Will Robinson (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 20.07 88 Mathew Camilleri (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 21.24 89 Danny Pulbrook (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 22.37 90 Patrick Gill (Plan B Racing Team) 22.45 91 Joshua Page (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 22.49 92 Peter Howard (Hart/Ridewiser) 23.27 93 Sam Brett (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 24.14 94 Luke Ockerby (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 24.40 95 Michael Verheyen (Plan B Racing Team) 29.36 96 Scott Cronly-Dillon (Cycle City Ballarat) 31.01 97 Peter Loft (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 33.44 98 Tony Chandler (Hart/Ridewiser) 36.37 99 Kyle Marwood (Central Coast/Simplot) 38.40 Sprints classification 1 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) 15 pts 2 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 15 3 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 12 4 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 12 5 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 11 6 Kristian House (Budget Forklifts) 11 7 David Kemp (Virgin Blue) 7 8 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 7 9 Hayden Brooks (Virgin Blue) 6 10 Leigh Howard (VIS/Jayco) 6 11 Peter Milostic (Budget Forklifts) 6 12 Jack Bobridge (SASI) 5 13 Nathan Clarke (Praties) 4 14 Glenn O’Shea (VIS/Jayco) 4 15 Jonathon Lovelock (VIS/Jayco) 4 16 Sean Finning (VIS/Jayco) 4 17 William Ford (South Australia/AIS) 4 18 Adam Semple (South Australia/AIS) 4 19 Matt Benson (SASI) 4 20 Michael England (Budget Forklifts) 4 21 Neil Manning (Plan B Racing Team) 3 22 Brad Edmunds (Savings & Loans) 3 23 Daniel Furmston (Praties) 3 24 Andrew Roe (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 3 25 Lauchlan Stewart (Cycle City Ballarat) 2 26 Vaughan Bowman (Hart/Ridewiser) 2 27 Ben Grenda (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 2 28 Ben Mather (Praties) 1 29 Matt King (South Australia/AIS) 1 30 James Langedyk (VIS/Jayco) 1 31 Jack Anderson (Budget Forklifts) 1 32 Dylan Newell (Praties) 1 Mountains classification 1 David Kemp (Virgin Blue) 16 pts 2 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 15 3 Peter Mcdonald (Drapac Porsche) 14 4 Tim Roe (Savings & Loans) 12 5 William Ford (South Australia/AIS) 9 6 Daniel Furmston (Praties) 8 7 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 8 8 Jonathon Lovelock (VIS/Jayco) 7 9 Peter Milostic (Budget Forklifts) 6 10 Cameron Peterson (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 6 11 Kristian House (Budget Forklifts) 5 12 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 5 13 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 4 14 Matt Benson (SASI) 3 15 Vaughan Bowman (Hart/Ridewiser) 2 16 Jack Bobridge (SASI) 1 17 Michael England (Budget Forklifts) 1 18 Stuart Shaw (Drapac Porsche) 1 19 Charles Howlett (Cycle City Ballarat) 1 20 Caleb Manion (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 1 Criterium Championships classification 1 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 23 pts 2 Leigh Howard (VIS/Jayco) 21 3 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 17 4 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 13 5 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 10 6 Nathan Clarke (Praties) 10 7 Caleb Manion (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 9 8 Peter Mcdonald (Drapac Porsche) 9 9 Tim Roe (Savings & Loans) 8 10 Russell Gill (Savings & Loans) 8 11 Stuart Shaw (Drapac Porsche) 7 12 Dale Scarfe (Panasonic) 5 13 Gene Bates (Drapac Porsche) 5 14 Nick Walker (VIS/Jayco) 5 15 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) 4 16 Jason Rigg (Cannondale/Praties) 3 17 Cameron Peterson (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 3 18 Michael Phelan (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 2 19 Luke Durbridge (Plan B Racing Team) 1 20 Richard England (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 1 21 Johnnie Walker (South Australia/AIS) 1 Tasmanian rider classification 1 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 4.58.01 2 Caleb Manion (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 0.20 3 Richie Porte (Praties) 0.31 4 Ben Mather (Praties) 1.37 5 Ben Grieve Johnson (Praties) 1.38 6 Daniel Furmston (Praties) 3.39 7 William Clarke (Praties) 3.43 8 Nathan Clarke (Praties) 5.44 9 Ben Grenda (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 5.52 10 Jason Rigg (Cannondale/Praties) 5.54 11 Matthew Rice (Central Coast/Simplot) 8.02 12 Mark Jamieson (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 10.29 13 Tom Robinson (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 12.32 14 Tim Walker (Cannondale/Praties) 13.41 15 Jeremy Hills (Cannondale/Praties) 13.46 16 Abram Manion (Budget Forklifts) 15.18 17 Matthew Mcdonagh (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 16.43 18 Aaron Jones (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 16.48 19 Joshua Wilson (Cannondale/Praties) 17.21 20 Will Robinson (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 18.12 21 Danny Pulbrook (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 20.42 22 Sam Brett (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 22.19 23 Luke Ockerby (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 22.45 24 Peter Loft (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 31.49 Teams classification 1 South Australia/AIS 14.52.31 2 Budget Forklifts 0.17 3 Praties 1.10 4 Drapac Porsche 2.52 5 SASI 3.00 6 VIS/Jayco 3.12 7 Panasonic 4.00 8 Virgin Blue 7.25 9 Savings & Loans 11.24 10 Tarkine Forest Adventures 13.48 11 Cycle City Ballarat 15.02 12 Central Coast/Simplot 17.06 13 DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS 18.20 14 Plan B Racing Team 23.18 15 Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD 25.47 16 Hart/Ridewiser 30.13 17 Cannondale/Praties 33.49
