Scott Law takes third National Road Race Series stage of Geelong Tour 2011 - Cycling News
V Australia team’s Scott showed a brilliant effort in the opening stage of Tour of Geelong 2011 and the fifth race of Australia National series and second of the Scody Cup, in North Shore Criterium on Wednesday, August 10.
The Track Star Scott took the total of 1 hour, 4 minutes and 33 seconds to cover the distance of 48 kilometres while Steele Von Hoff of Genesys Wealth Advisers was in second place with the same timing of Sprinter.
His team-mate Benjamin Kersten was in third place ahead of Genesys Wealth Advisers team’s Nicholas Sanderson and Nathan Haas.
Benjamin Hill of Jayco 2XU was in good form and tried to take part in the 10 leading riders but was unable to hold the pace and grabbed the 11th position with a difference of 4 seconds ahead of his team-mate Mark Jamieson and Joshua Atkins (Suzuki/Trek).
With 20 laps to go, the three cyclists including, Dion Smith (Pure Black Racing), Patrick Shaw (Genesys Wealth Advisers) and Nicholas Sanderson got a lead of a few seconds while Smith won this lap. Peter Thompson increased his pace to take lead in 12 laps
ahead of Patrick Shaw.
Anthony Giacoppo launched an attacked and gained points ahead of Smith, however, after 48 kilometres to early loops the cyclists suffered several crashes, due to this the cyclists failed to gain a lead in the stage and Scott Law took a control of the situation
after 7 laps and managed to cross the finish line first.
Alexander Ray of Pure Black Racing took the title of most aggressive rider. Scott Law was leading in overall standings with the timing of 1 hour, 4 minutes and 20 seconds.
Ray was runner-up with 1 second and Patrick Shaw finished third with 2 seconds behind V Australia.
Nicholas Sanderson of Genesys Wealth Advisers was in fourth spot with the difference of 4 seconds ahead of Nathan Haas and Steele Von Hoff.
All the cyclists were moving towards the next stage, start in Lara and the race end in You Yangs. They will cover the distance of 79.6 kilometres to obtain a victory.
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