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Scody Australian Open Road Championships 2010

Date range:
January 6-10, 2010

January 7, Under 23 Criterium: Ballarat 33km

Braunsteins claims solo victory

By:
Greg Johnson
Published:
January 7, 2010, 18:11,
Updated:
January 7, 2010, 16:59

Drapac-Porsche get one-two with Palmer

Daniel Braunsteins from Victoria takes out the men's Under 23 criterium championship with a long way back to the rest.

Daniel Braunsteins from Victoria takes out the men's Under 23 criterium championship with a long way back to the rest.

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 Drapac-Porsche dominated the Under 23 men’s criterium championship race, with Daniel Braunsteins making a successful solo break for the victory with two laps remaining. Braunsteins had two team-mates to assist in the eight-man break away and despite his work earlier in the race Thomas Palmer sprinted to second place for the Victorian squad.

New South Wales’ Malcolm Rudolph took the final place on the podium, while Ben Grenda picked up the afternoon’s sprint classification.

“I was just trying to be patient and make my move at the end,” said Braunsteins. “Just as the race started to get hard a group of eight got away with three Drapac riders in it. That let me just sit in and rest my legs a bit more.

“With two laps remaining I just hit them with everything I had,” said the former mountain biker. “I got a gap and stayed away, so I’m stoked.”

The first half of the lap featured constant attacking, with equally as much retaliation from the peloton. It wasn’t until inside the final 15 laps that a break-away was allowed to escape, consisting of six riders.

That group expanded to eight as Rudolph led a two-man Drapac-Porsche time trial across to the lead group. The addition of his team-mates at the front put Braunsteins in the box seat for victory and despite the odds of the team winning in bunch kick, he made the bold move of a solo attack with two laps remaining and never looked back.

Results

# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Daniel Braunsteins (VIC)    
2 Thomas Palmer (ACT)    
3 Malcolm Rudolph (QLD)    
4 Ben Grenda (TAS)    
5 Joseph Lewis (NSW)    
6 Douglas Repacholi (WA)    
7 Geoff Straub (NSW)    
8 Brenton Jones (VIC)    
9 Alex Carver (NSW)    
10 Scott Law (NSW)    
11 Alexander Smyth (VIC)    
12 Nicholas Walker (VIC)    
13 Matthew Benson (SA)    
14 Joshua Taylor (NSW)    
15 Reuben Donati (NSW)    
16 Trevor Griffiths (VIC)    
17 Kane Walker (VIC)    
18 Dylan Wallis (SA)    
19 Aaron Donnelly (NSW)    
20 Ivan Cook (QLD)    
21 Craig Hutton (NSW)    
22 Jeremy Hills (TAS)    
23 Danny Pulbrook (TAS)    
24 Kristopher Collins (NSW)    
25 James Hepburn (QLD)    
26 Merlin Spranz (SA)    
27 Joshua Prete (QLD)    
28 Angus Morton (NSW)    
29 Blair Windsor (NSW)    
30 Mohammed Adiq Husainie Othman (MAS)    
31 Michael Hepburn (QLD)    
32 Dale Scarfe (NSW)    
DNF Timothy White (VIC)    
DNF Owen Cooke (NSW)    
DNF Ruan Benson (QLD)    
DNF Daniel Hopper (VIC)    
DNF Daniel Swanbury (NSW)    
DNF David Abraham (TAS)    
DNF Peter Braunsteins (VIC)    
DNF Mitch Brogden (VIC)    
DNF Patrick Drapac (VIC)    
DNF Philip Grenfell (NSW)    
DNF Patrick Lane (VIC)    
DNF Richard Lang (NSW)    
DNF Peter Loft (TAS)    
DNF Vivian Mccarthy (VIC)    
DNF James Mowatt (VIC)    
DNF Ryan Obst (SA)    
DNF Glenn O'shea (VIC)    
DNF Michael Phelan (ACT)    
DNF Thomas Robinson (TAS)    
DNF Joel Stearnes (TAS)    
DNF James Langedyk (VIC)    
DNS Alastair Loutit (ACT)    
DNS Johann Esterhuyzen (NSW)    
DNS Peter Johnstone (VIC)