Tour of Gippsland 2010: Stage 2 Results

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The peloton descends towards Inverloch during stage two of the Tour of Gippsland. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Riders string-out on the ascent of the category two climb at Mt.Misery. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Riders followed the south-east coastline of Victoria for the first 15 kilometres of the stage. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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One hundred and fifty-nine riders on the outskirts of Wonthaggi on Victoria's south-east coast during the second stage of the Lakes Oil Tour of Gippsland. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Patrick Lane (Team Jacyo Skins) tries on his polka dot jersey as the King of the Mountains competition leader after two stages. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Stage two podium (L-R): Patrick Shaw (Virgin Blue/RBS Morgan), Rico Rogers (Budget Forklifts), and Richard Lang (Jayco Skins). (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Rico Rogers (Budget Forklifts) holds out Richard Lang (Jayco Skins) to win the second stage of the tour on the out-and-back course in Wonthaggi. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Cameron Peterson (Virgin Blue/RBS Morgan) was in the leading group of riders that was established on the ascent of Mt.Misery. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Patrick Lane (Team Jayco Skins) in the leading group after the descent of Mt.Misery. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Riders felt the pinch on the climb up Mt.Misery as the race began to split up. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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The yellow jersey of Ben Grenda (Genesys Wealth Advisers) at the front of the race on the climb during the short 68.2km stage. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Cameron Jennings (Budget Forklifts) leads the field up Mt.Misery, a climb which split the peloton into many fragments. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Tasmanian Ben Grenda (Genesys Wealth Advisers) will wear the tour leader's yellow jersey into the longest stage of the tour (134kms) in Warragul tomorrow. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

Rico Rogers stopped the Jayco-Skins squad from dominating the Tour of Gippsland’s opening day, with the Team Budget Forklifts rider holding off Richard Lang to win the day’s second stage. Lang’s teammate Alex Carver had won the morning’s opening criterium ahead of Patrick Shaw (Virgin Blue-RBS Morgans), who finished third on the afternoon’s stage.

Two main climbs on the day’s stage helped thin the peloton, however Rogers still lead a 60-strong bunch into the finish at Wonthaggi.

Race leader Ben Grenda was well protected by his strong Genesys Wealth Advisers team in the mountainous 88km afternoon stage, which took a punishing toll on large proportion of the 160-strong field. Grenda feels he can hold the leader’s yellow jersey until Sunday’s grand finale criterium in Paynesville but is weary of tomorrow’s 134km stage.

“I’ve got the yellow and somebody else has got to take it off me but I would certainly like to hang on to it,” said Grenda. “I’ve been working very hard on improving my sprinting over the past few months and it seems to be working for me. It’s also comforting to have such a supportive team around me.”

An early five man break was reduced to three riders at the start of the first climb, with only Dylan Newell (Genesys Wealth Advisers), Charles Howlett (Search2Retain-Myteam2) and Adiq Othman (Drapac-Porsche) away. The peloton caught the trio by the summit however where Cameron Jennings (Team Budget Forklifts) claimed the King of the Mountains points ahead of Othman and Patrick Lane (Jayco-Skins).

Lane led over the second climb, putting him in the mountains competition lead. He was followed by Lachlan Norris (Drapac-Porsche) and Stuart Smith (Jayco-VIS).

Just 60 riders remained in the lead bunch as the peloton closed in on the finish, where Rogers sprinted to victory.

Results

#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Rico Rogers (Team Budget Forklifts)	1:37:28
2	Richard Lang (Team Jayco Skins)
3	Patrick Shaw (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
4	Ben Grenda (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
5	Dale Scarfe (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
6	Adam Phelan (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
7	Anthony Diacoppo (Plan B Racing)
8	Kane Walker (Apollo Bicycles)
9	Adiq Othman (Drapac Professional Cyclin)
10	James Mowatt (Bass Coast Shire)
11	James Mcdulling (Team Race-Fenton Green)
12	Blair Windsor (Team Budget Forklifts)
13	Alex Carver (Team Jayco Skins)
14	James Ibrahim (Team Race-Fenton Green)
15	Thomas Robinson (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
16	Malcolm Rudolph (Team Jayco Skins)
17	Craig Hutton (Bike Bug North Sydney/Car)
18	Sam Davis (Plan B Racing)
19	Nick Bensley (SP AusNet)
20	Philip Grenfell (Bike Bug North Sydney/Car)
21	Joseph Lewis (Drapac Professional Cyclin)
22	Cameron Peterson (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
23	Brett Tivers (Plan B Racing)
24	Alexander Ray (Lakes Oil N.L.)
25	Aaron Donnelly (Team Jayco Skins)
26	Christopher Williams (Merida Australia)
27	Alexander Smyth (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
28	Lachlan Norris (Drapac Professional Cyclin)
29	Alastair Loutit (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
30	Mitchell Mulhern (Merida Australia)
31	Daniel Mcconnell (Bass Coast Shire)
32	Kyle Marwood (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
33	Michael Freiberg (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
34	Mitchell Pearson (Bass Coast Shire)
35	Michael Hosking (GE Plumbing 2010)
36	Brendan Brooks (Shortis.com.au)
37	David De Marco (Lakes Oil N.L.)
38	Tristan Jones (Team Super Elliott)
39	Nicholas Dougall (Lakes Oil N.L.)
40	Michael Phelan (Drapac Professional Cyclin)
41	Jason Spencer (Apollo Bicycles)
42	Daniel Furmston (Plan B Racing)
43	Michael Smith (Lawson Homes)
44	James Hepburn (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
45	Damien Turner (Bass Coast Shire)
46	Joshua Taylor (AWCC Development)
47	Clayton Fettell (GE Plumbing 2010)
48	Benjamin Hill (Suzuki/ACTAS)
49	Nathan Elliott (CreditCollect)
50	Patrick Lane (Team Jayco Skins)
51	Stephen Bomball (Suzuki/ACTAS)
52	Eric Sheppard (Jayco VIS)
53	Stuart Smith (Jayco VIS)
54	Cameron Jennings (Team Budget Forklifts)
55	Joshua Prete (Team Budget Forklifts)
56	Steele Von Hoff (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
57	Yusrizal Usoff (Malaysian National Team)
58	Ben Cutajar (Shortis.com.au)
59	Matthew Marshall (Shortis.com.au)
60	Andrew Mcnab (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
61	Sean Evangelista (GE Plumbing 2010)
62	Sam Moorhouse (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
63	Peter Herzig (Team Budget Forklifts)
64	Nick Aitken (Team Jayco Skins)
65	James Boal (AWCC Development)
66	Nathan Earle (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
67	Luke Fetch (Bass Coast Shire)
68	Glen Chadwick (Team Budget Forklifts)
69	Ben Dyball (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
70	Danny Pulbrook (Recab Cycling)
71	Rowan Dever (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
72	Gordon Mccauley (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
73	Elliott Wells (Plan B Racing)
74	Charles Howlett (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
75	Brent Miller (Suzuki/ACTAS)
76	Michael Cupitt (Merida Australia)
77	Scott Cronly-Dillon (McDonagh Blake-Witness)	0:00:37
78	Dylan Newell (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	0:00:46
79	Andrew Arundel (Lawson Homes)	0:02:32
80	Samuel Beveridge (Apollo Bicycles)	0:04:06
81	Andrew Christie (Lawson Homes)
82	Jamie Lacey (Merida Australia)
83	Jay Bourke (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
84	Nathan Haas (Recab Cycling)
85	Andrew Crawley (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
86	Luke Cridland (Shortis.com.au)
87	Amir Rusli (Malaysian National Team)
88	Ryan Obst (CreditCollect)	0:06:58
89	Nathan Hunter (Team Super Elliott)
90	John Cornish (Recab Cycling)
91	Joel Stearnes (Lawson Homes)
92	Jarrod Peachey (SP AusNet)
93	Samuel Witmitz (Team Race-Fenton Green)
94	Michael Gallagher (Jayco VIS)
95	Neil Manning (Plan B Racing)
96	Jacob Sutherland (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
97	David Abraham (Lawson Homes)
98	Luke Ockerby (Recab Cycling)
99	James Henry (CreditCollect)
100	Michael Crosbie (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
101	Oliver Kent-Spark (Team Race-Fenton Green)
102	Angus Gale (Bike Bug North Sydney/Car)
103	John Groves (Apollo Bicycles)
104	Matthew Chew (Lakes Oil N.L.)
105	Angus Morton (Drapac Professional Cyclin)
106	Kornelis Sietsma (SP AusNet)
107	Alexander Malone (Bike Bug North Sydney/Car)
108	Stuart Shaw (Drapac Professional Cyclin)
109	Shahrul Amin (Malaysian National Team)
110	Dean Sanfiloppo (CreditCollect)
111	Trent Williams (CreditCollect)
112	Thomas Donald (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
113	Steven Martin (TFM Avanti)
114	Geoff Straub (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
115	Alex Wong (Bike Bug North Sydney/Car)
116	Russell Gill (Team Super Elliott)
117	Jaskson Wardrop (GE Plumbing 2010)
118	Michael Sargeant (GE Plumbing 2010)
119	Kyle Bateson (GE Plumbing 2010)
120	David Deery (Suzuki/ACTAS)
121	Elliot Crowther (CreditCollect)
122	Harry Rassie (Team Race-Fenton Green)	0:05:28
123	Zamri Saleh (Malaysian National Team)	0:06:32
124	Andrew Pike (TFM Avanti)
125	Trevor Griffiths (Apollo Bicycles)
126	Fallanie Ali (Malaysian National Team)
127	Ben Hilleard (Bass Coast Shire)	0:07:56
128	Shane Way (AWCC Development)	0:09:11
129	Eamon Ryan (SP AusNet)
130	Stephen Rossendell (Recab Cycling)
131	David Hampton (SP AusNet)	0:09:59
132	Scott Liston (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
133	Daniel O’Keefe (SP AusNet)
134	Andrew Dorman (TFM Avanti)
135	Jake Laine (SP AusNet)
136	Brodie Talbot (Search2Retain-Myteam2)	0:10:03
137	Fergus Maclachlan (Lakes Oil N.L.)
138	Timothy White (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
139	Matthew Werrell (Shortis.com.au)
140	Peter Aquilina (Bass Coast Shire)
141	Scott Law (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
142	Michael Stallard (Team Super Elliott)
143	Aaron Jones (Recab Cycling)
144	Joel Pearson (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
145	Mark Chadwick (Team Race-Fenton Green)
146	Harrif Saleh (Malaysian National Team)
147	Fakhrulllah Alias (Malaysian National Team)
148	Timothy Walker (Recab Cycling)	0:10:10
149	Brendan Washington (AWCC Development)	0:10:13
150	David Melville (Merida Australia)
DNF	James Herd (Apollo Bicycles)
DNF	Andrew Smith (Lawson Homes)
DNS	Rhys Gillett (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
DNS	Johann Esterhuyzen (TFM Avanti)

General classification after stage 2
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Ben Grenda (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	2:22:32
2	Patrick Shaw (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)	0:00:07
3	Cameron Jennings (Team Budget Forklifts)
4	Rico Rogers (Team Budget Forklifts)	0:00:10
5	Alex Carver (Team Jayco Skins)	0:00:12
6	Adiq Othman (Drapac Professional Cycling)	0:00:13
7	Thomas Robinson (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
8	Richard Lang (Team Jayco Skins)	0:00:14
9	Patrick Lane (Team Jayco Skins)
10	Joseph Lewis (Drapac Professional Cycling)	0:00:16
11	Steele Von Hoff (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	0:00:17
12	James Ibrahim (Team Race-Fenton Green)	0:00:18
13	Kyle Marwood (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
14	Blair Windsor (Team Budget Forklifts)	0:00:19
15	Alexander Smyth (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
16	Lachlan Norris (Drapac Professional Cycling)
17	Brendan Brooks (Shortis.com.au)
18	Dale Scarfe (McDonagh Blake-Witness)	0:00:20
19	Malcolm Rudolph (Team Jayco Skins)
20	Stuart Smith (Jayco VIS)
21	Adam Phelan (McDonagh Blake-Witness)	0:00:21
22	Eric Sheppard (Jayco VIS)
23	Kane Walker (Apollo Bicycles)	0:00:22
24	James Mowatt (Bass Coast Shire)
25	Anthony Diacoppo (Plan B Racing)
26	Cameron Peterson (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
27	James Mcdulling (Team Race-Fenton Green)
28	Brett Tivers (Plan B Racing)
29	Michael Phelan (Drapac Professional Cycling)
30	Mitchell Pearson (Bass Coast Shire)
31	Nick Bensley (SP AusNet)
32	Sam Davis (Plan B Racing)
33	Daniel Furmston (Plan B Racing)
34	Mitchell Mulhern (Merida Australia)
35	Alastair Loutit (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
36	Michael Freiberg (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
37	Alexander Ray (Lakes Oil N.L.)
38	David De Marco (Lakes Oil N.L.)
39	Damien Turner (Bass Coast Shire)
40	Christopher Williams (Merida Australia)
41	Nicholas Dougall (Lakes Oil N.L.)
42	Aaron Donnelly (Team Jayco Skins)
43	Joshua Taylor (AWCC Development)
44	Michael Smith (Lawson Homes)
45	James Hepburn (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
46	Nick Aitken (Team Jayco Skins)
47	Philip Grenfell (Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol)
48	Sam Moorhouse (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
49	Craig Hutton (Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol)
50	Clayton Fettell (GE Plumbing 2010)
51	Ben Dyball (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
52	Benjamin Hill (Suzuki/ACTAS)
53	Gordon Mccauley (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
54	Joshua Prete (Team Budget Forklifts)
55	Stephen Bomball (Suzuki/ACTAS)
56	Matthew Marshall (Shortis.com.au)
57	Nathan Earle (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
58	Jason Spencer (Apollo Bicycles)
59	Michael Hosking (GE Plumbing 2010)
60	Charles Howlett (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
61	Nathan Elliott (CreditCollect)
62	Danny Pulbrook (Recab Cycling)
63	Peter Herzig (Team Budget Forklifts)
64	Andrew Mcnab (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
65	Rowan Dever (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
66	Daniel Mcconnell (Bass Coast Shire)
67	Brent Miller (Suzuki/ACTAS)
68	Glen Chadwick (Team Budget Forklifts)
69	Ben Cutajar (Shortis.com.au)
70	Sean Evangelista (GE Plumbing 2010)
71	James Boal (AWCC Development)
72	Elliott Wells (Plan B Racing)
73	Luke Fetch (Bass Coast Shire)
74	Scott Cronly-Dillon (McDonagh Blake-Witness)	0:00:59
75	Dylan Newell (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	0:01:05
76	Tristan Jones (Team Super Elliott)	0:01:53
77	Yusrizal Usoff (Malaysian National Team)
78	Michael Cupitt (Merida Australia)
79	Andrew Arundel (Lawson Homes)	0:02:54
80	Amir Rusli (Malaysian National Team)	0:04:26
81	Nathan Haas (Recab Cycling)	0:04:28
82	Samuel Beveridge (Apollo Bicycles)
83	Andrew Christie (Lawson Homes)
84	Jay Bourke (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
85	Jamie Lacey (Merida Australia)
86	Andrew Crawley (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
87	Luke Cridland (Shortis.com.au)
88	Harry Rassie (Team Race-Fenton Green)	0:05:50
89	Zamri Saleh (Malaysian National Team)	0:06:54
90	Fallanie Ali (Malaysian National Team)
91	Andrew Pike (TFM Avanti)
92	Neil Manning (Plan B Racing)	0:07:15
93	Stuart Shaw (Drapac Professional Cycling)	0:07:17
94	John Cornish (Recab Cycling)	0:07:19
95	Alexander Malone (Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol)
96	Samuel Witmitz (Team Race-Fenton Green)	0:07:20
97	Russell Gill (Team Super Elliott)
98	Ryan Obst (CreditCollect)
99	Joel Stearnes (Lawson Homes)
100	Jaskson Wardrop (GE Plumbing 2010)
101	Luke Ockerby (Recab Cycling)
102	Jacob Sutherland (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
103	Michael Gallagher (Jayco VIS)
104	Kyle Bateson (GE Plumbing 2010)
105	Thomas Donald (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
106	David Abraham (Lawson Homes)
107	Angus Morton (Drapac Professional Cycling)
108	Kornelis Sietsma (SP AusNet)
109	Geoff Straub (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
110	John Groves (Apollo Bicycles)
111	Jarrod Peachey (SP AusNet)
112	Trent Williams (CreditCollect)
113	Matthew Chew (Lakes Oil N.L.)
114	Elliot Crowther (CreditCollect)
115	Steven Martin (TFM Avanti)
116	Angus Gale (Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol)
117	Dean Sanfiloppo (CreditCollect)
118	David Deery (Suzuki/ACTAS)
119	Oliver Kent-Spark (Team Race-Fenton Green)	0:08:39
120	Nathan Hunter (Team Super Elliott)	0:08:51
121	James Henry (CreditCollect)
122	Michael Crosbie (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
123	Shahrul Amin (Malaysian National Team)
124	Alex Wong (Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol)
125	Ben Hilleard (Bass Coast Shire)	0:08:57
126	Stephen Rossendell (Recab Cycling)	0:09:33
127	Joel Pearson (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	0:10:19
128	Scott Liston (Search2Retain-Myteam2)	0:10:21
129	Daniel O’Keefe (SP AusNet)
130	Michael Sargeant (GE Plumbing 2010)	0:10:22
131	Scott Law (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)	0:10:25
132	Brodie Talbot (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
133	Fakhrulllah Alias (Malaysian National Team)
134	Michael Stallard (Team Super Elliott)
135	Peter Aquilina (Bass Coast Shire)
136	Timothy White (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
137	Matthew Werrell (Shortis.com.au)
138	Aaron Jones (Recab Cycling)
139	Harrif Saleh (Malaysian National Team)
140	Timothy Walker (Recab Cycling)	0:10:30
141	David Melville (Merida Australia)	0:10:35
142	Eamon Ryan (SP AusNet)	0:11:04
143	Mark Chadwick (Team Race-Fenton Green)	0:11:22
144	Trevor Griffiths (Apollo Bicycles)	0:11:27
145	Andrew Dorman (TFM Avanti)	0:11:52
146	Brendan Washington (AWCC Development)	0:13:37
147	David Hampton (SP AusNet)	0:14:54
148	Fergus Maclachlan (Lakes Oil N.L.)	0:14:58
149	Jake Laine (SP AusNet)	0:16:25
150	Shane Way (AWCC Development)	0:17:08

Sprint classification
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Ben Grenda (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	16	pts
2	Cameron Jennings (Team Budget Forklifts)	8
3	Joseph Lewis (Drapac Professional Cycling)	6
4	Steele Von Hoff (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	5
5	Thomas Robinson (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	5
6	Neil Manning (Plan B Racing)	5
7	Kyle Marwood (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	4
8	Adiq Othman (Drapac Professional Cycling)	4
9	James Ibrahim (Team Race-Fenton Green)	4
10	Stuart Shaw (Drapac Professional Cycling)	3
11	Dylan Newell (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	3
12	Brendan Brooks (Shortis.com.au)	3
13	Alexander Smyth (Search2Retain-Myteam2)	3
14	Malcolm Rudolph (Team Jayco Skins)	2
15	Amir Rusli (Malaysian National Team)	2
16	Timothy Walker (Recab Cycling)	2
17	Blair Windsor (Team Budget Forklifts)	2
18	Rico Rogers (Team Budget Forklifts)	2
19	Alexander Malone (Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol)	1
20	Patrick Shaw (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)	1
21	John Cornish (Recab Cycling)	1
22	Eric Sheppard (Jayco VIS)	1
23	Rhys Gillett (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)	1

Mountains classification
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Patrick Lane (Team Jayco Skins)	8	pts
2	Cameron Jennings (Team Budget Forklifts)	7
3	Adiq Othman (Drapac Professional Cycling)	5
4	Lachlan Norris (Drapac Professional Cycling)	3
5	Stuart Smith (Jayco VIS)	2

Teams classification
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Genesys Wealth Advisers	7:08:42
2	Team Jayco Skins
3	Virgin Blue RBS Morgan
4	Drapac Professional Cycling
5	McDonagh Blake-Witness
6	Plan B Racing
7	Bass Coast Shire
8	Team Budget Forklifts
9	Lakes Oil N.L.
10	Search2Retain-Myteam2
11	GE Plumbing 2010
12	Merida Australia
13	Shortis.com.au
14	Suzuki/ACTAS
15	Apollo Bicycles	0:04:06
16	Lawson Homes	0:06:38
17	Team Race-Fenton Green	0:06:58
18	Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol
19	Jayco VIS
20	AAL Hyster-Rush Racing
21	Malaysian National Team	0:11:04
22	Recab Cycling
23	AWCC Development	0:12:13
24	SP AusNet	0:13:56
25	CreditCollect
26	Team Super Elliott	0:15:27
27	TFM Avanti	0:25:00