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Northern Sydney Cycling Club is with Jennifer Darmody.

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BEAUIE RACE REPORT 19/05

A perfect Autumn morning set the ideal scene for some hard and fast racing at the traditional home of crits in Sydney's North.

WOMEN'S ELITE:
A small but strong field contested the Women's Elite Robert Hodgson Memorial Race. Jen Darmody and Charlotte Culver ultimately forged clear in a breakaway that stayed away. Jen showed her class by taking a well deserved victory in the two-up sprint.
1. Jen Darmody
2. Charlotte Culver
3. Lena Janson
4. Jackie Bezuidenford

It was great to see such fast female racing but it would be awesome to see more girls getting down to Beauie to enjoy a slice of the prize money and racing on the circuit that is a classic of Sydney cycling!

A GRADE MEN'S
Continuous attacks made for a high paced and grueling race. A few of these attacks looked like they might stick, including a multi-lap solo move by Marcus Culey that had the main group frantically trying to shut things down. It all came back down to a bunch sprint in the end and the Pro Racing Sunshine Coast duo of Michael Potter and Kai Chapman executed a well drilled lead out and sprint to claim the win.
1. Kai Chapman
2. Tom Lynch
3. Marcus Culey

B GRADE MEN'S
Once again a solid turn out in B Grade for this months Beauie Worlds with Team CCCC bringing 6 riders down including the evergreen Andrew Hellmich and wise man of the bunch Phil Hey. The Dog Squad were also out in force, while NSCC had The Butcher, Ran and Brad Pitt making an appearance after a 10 week hiatus.

From the gun the attacks were coming thick and fast with Team CCCC and The Dog squad boys keen to animate the race, however nothing was going to stick until about half way through when a dangerous looking move of Phil Hey and Andrew Hellmich got up the road, with the Dog Squad missing the move the onus was on them to bring it back, there did appear to be a stalemate in the bunch for a while with a few attacks going off the front but getting brought back very quickly, this was until Ran and Rodrigo (DHCC) made it across and this to me looked like the winning move, however a tiring Andy Hellmich and Ran offering very little, the break was brought to heel with two and a half laps to go and a bunch sprint on the cards.

In a bunch sprint finish Dog Squad rider Chris Hines took 1st and 2nd and 3rd going to Ben Svkolwolski of MWCC and Rodrigo Notaro of DHCC

C GRADE MEN'S
There was a big C grade field racing in the beautiful windless conditions. From the gun it was clear that this would be an attackfest with the CCCC and Rapha boys looking to put everyone under pressure. At the mid point as expected Matty (Breaker) Johnston gassed it and suddenly there were splits in the bunch as riders scrambled to get across the gap. Eventually Matty was wound in but more attacks followed as the lighter riders wanted to drop the beefier guys to avoid a sprint. NSCC boys Michael Ong and Bob Santone were ever present and it was great to see the oldest rider in the field - Guy Page - show that age is no barrier as he was very active in the race.

Matty J wasn't finished and he and Matt Caffrey tried to get away again without luck. On the bell lap at the bottom turn Matt C again tried a red mist attack but the bunch were having none of it and it settled down to a sprint to the line. Rich Measures just seemed to slip off the front by going long and it was the winning move as Matty J and Archie Wilson tried in vain to reel him in and had to settle for 2nd and 3rd place respectively. ... See MoreSee Less