| A weekend at Bernie's ends up with a tour of Tasmania |
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Fly V Australia have continued their dominance of the Scody Cup National Road Series with local boy Bernard Sulzberger taking out the CAT Tour of Tasmania.Sulzberger became the second Tasmanian to win the race after Richie Porte’s victory last year defeating Peter McDonald (Drapac Porsche) by 50 seconds with Jayo/AIS’s Luke Durbridge a further six seconds back in third place. The twenty-five year-old from Flowery Gully in northern Tasmania took the lead on day one in East Devonport and wore it through to the end in Westbury last Sunday, the first time a rider has worn the leader’s jersey for the entire race.  Jonathan Cantwell takes out the final stage in Westbury as Fly V Australia teammate Bernard Sulzberger begins his tour celebrations behind. All together Fly V Australia won five of the ten stages with other wins to Ben Day, stage six in Ulverstone, and Sulzberger himself, winning stage nine from George Town to Scottsdale.The team has been a power in the series with Darren Rolfe winning the Tour of Geelong and Cantwell claiming the Tour of the Murray River. Cantwell, the happy-go-lucky Queenslander, took out the Scody Cup Series from Budget Forklift’s Richard Lang with Savings and Loans rider Joel Pearson third. But it was Sulzberger week of glory down under, down under the rest of Australia that is, with a superb display of riding on roads he knows like the back of his hand.Some would say a home ground advantage for Sulzberger who often trains on the roads around Launceston with younger brother and Francais Des Jeux rider Wes, along with a ‘few others’. Certainly it would have helped, especially the 91 kilometre ninth stage from George Town to Scottsdale where Sulzberger’s lead of 38 seconds heading into the stage could have come under threat with any serious breaks. Jayco/VIS rider and former Herald Sun Tour and National Road Champion, Matt Wilson, tried his best to split the race wide open in the final twenty kilometres when he shot clear on the descent over the category four climb at Lebrina.  A happy pair: Scody Cup winner Jonathan Cantwell (left) and 2009 Tour of Tasmania winner Bernard Sulzberger were all smiles in Westbury. By winning the stage he emulated brother Wes’s win there in the 2006 tour. Sulzberger took a 39 second lead into the final day and controlled the stage to his liking in front of a great crowd in Westbury.Other stage wins on the tour went to Jayco/AIS duo Luke Durbridge and Rohan Dennis; Savings and Loan’s Joel Pearson; Budget Forklift’s Richard Lang and Drapac Porsche’s Joseph Lewis. The Tour’s other competition winners were: Image of the tour online in the ‘Cycling Events’ gallery soon. For results and photos please log onto www.cyclingnews.com Coming up – The 2009 Jayco Herald Sun Tour. |
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