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Illawarra CC

June 14, 2003

The Law wins again

A cool windy winter's day greeted the riders at Caesars Illawarra Cycle Club course at West Dapto on Sunday but it was not enough to keep too many riders away. Just on 40 riders competed in the main event, a 56km handicap. While the wind was not extremely high, it would make life difficult for the riders to ride into.

The scratch markers would have a good challenge of hauling in the limit marker of Les Hewitt (25:00) over the 3 laps to Marshall Mount Hall. But with the likes of Luke Dale, Josh Wall and Tim Morris, it was a task that could be achieved. The question was could they catch the block group of Grant Law, Neil Midgley, Dylan Forbes and Jeff Gray who had a 4 minute start on them.

By the end of the 2nd lap, the scratchies had a deficit of 3 minutes on the leading group of Andrew Brooks and Greg Fisher (05:00). The Block group of Law, Midgley, Gray had caught several of the leading riders including Austin Pitman(20:00) and Tony Pulo(18:00) and were a minute down on the leaders - and closing in fast.

In the final sprint, the Block group had made up the deficit to the leaders and was now on the front of the race. The group of 6 riders had held out the scratchies and were no scrambling to take out the honours on the line. Forbes and Midgley were giving it all they could, but Law a NSW State Track Champion was the better sprinter and was able to make his way around the group to take line honours from Midgley and Forbes.

The scratchies were less than 2 minutes behind as they crossed the line with Mal Moss leading them home in the sprint. Peter Jones (25:00) was able to cross the line in front of fellow scratch markers Morris and Dale to claim Fastest Time (1:27:09) on the day.

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Results, 56 km handicap

1 Grant Law (Illawarra)
2 Neil Midgley (Illawarra)
3 Dylan Forbes (Illawarra)
4 Austin Pitman (Illawarra)
5 Richard Lorenc (Illawarra)
6 Tim Devlin (Illawarra)
7 Martin Mullin (Canberra)
8 Peter Jones (Illawarra)
9 Tim Morris (Illawarra)
10 Luke Dale (Illawarra)
11 Adam Rourke (Illawarra)
12 Jeffrey Gray (Illawarra)
13 Scott Turnbull (Illawarra)
14 Tony Pulo (Illawarra)
15 Philip Jones (Illawarra)
16 David Russel (Illawarra)
17 Keith Bennett (Illawarra)
18 Bobby Krstevski (Illawarra)
19 Gil Rutty (Illawarra)
20 Carlo Paiola (Marconi)
21 Jose Pereira (Illawarra)
22 Fiona Campbell (Illawarra)
23 Frank Tortorici (Illawarra)
24 Andrew Brooks (Illawarra)
25 Greg Fisher (Illawarra)
26 Warren Poole (Illawarra)
27 Steve Franklin (Illawarra)
28 Guy Mathiske (Illawarra)
DNF Dean Marcinkowski (Illawarra)
DNF Jason Johnson (Illawarra)
DNF Brian Cockshot (Macarthur)
DNF Dean Kelly (Nowra)
DNF Terry Wall (Illawarra)
DNF Mark O`Keefe (Illawarra)
DNF Paul Kaye (Illawarra)
DNF Les Hewitt (Illawarra)
 
Fastest time: Steve Franklin (Illawarra)