Local squad Euride Racing crush NRS men's TTT

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Local knowledge and a well-drilled squad netted the Adelaide-based Euride Racing the first win of the Jarvis Subaru Adelaide Tour with a blisteringly-fast time over the 20.9km Patrick Jonker team time trial course. Budget Forklift were the nearest rival to Euride but had to settle for second-place on the mainly downhill but technical TTT from Cudlee Creek to Newton, posting a time 16-seconds slower than the locals. Huon Salmon-Genesys have dominated races against the clock in this year's Subaru National Road Series but they could only manage the third-best time, coming 41-seconds down on the team that will take yellow into tomorrow's 158.4km Stuart O'Grady road race.

"If you compare our last team time trial [at Toowoomba] against Genesys, we were fourth and they put a minute into second-place, that was a really big power course and they had a team that really suited that course," Euride's Fraser Northey told Cyclingnews. "We have a really strong team but what helped us here is local knowledge.

"We knew exactly where to rotate out riders on which climbs. It was a bit of a risk is some of the tactics we chose but it paid-off," he added.

In the women's NRS race it was Polygon Australia who cruised to the top step after ripping down the technical and narrow Gorge Road to post a time of 28:03. Amy Cure was the first from the team to cross the line and will pull on the race leader's jersey for the 105.6km road stage tomorrow.

"It is great to be able come out and show everyone what you've got when its just you and your team against the clock," said Cure. "We came here thinking we had every opportunity and chance as everyone else, but we also knew it would be very tough, so it is awesome to have pulled the win off.

“It is going to be a hard hundred kilometres and with the hill climbs and gravel sections in there, it is going to mix it up," Cure noted. "It certainly is a road race that suits everyone which means it is going to be really close."

Second went to the Jayco-Apollo VIS squad who crossed the line 35-seconds in arrears while the ever-present Pensar SPM Racing outfit kept themselves in contention for the overall with third, at 39-seconds behind the Tasmanian Polygon team.

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