Very small differences in this time trial, and unfortunately no victory of Workman.
Almost 9 Australians in the points ; Judd was very close, and Iverson had bad luck what most likely caused finishing outside the top 20.
Workman, Shields and Clinton dissapointed a bit, my expectations of them were higher.
NT race 4 results ;
1 Zehar Bottani 32 0: 00" 300 BlackHole
2 James Power 29 0: 00" 250 Rekutxuteam
3 Kirk Workman 30 0: 01" 225
Aurora_Australis4 Ian Mikkelson 29 0: 03" 200 Caracoles
5 Isidro Murillo 32 0: 04" 180 IntellinetCyclingFF
6 Ruben Lutz 26 0: 04" 160 ChronoTony
7 Bud Mount 26 0: 05" 150
ChronoTony8 Stijn Aalbers 29 0: 06" 140 ChampsElysees
9 Tod Henderson 25 0: 07" 130
Aurora_Australis10 Shalva Makarov 29 0: 07" 120 TarracoCycling
11 Marcus Rodriguez 31 0: 08" 110 TeaMetal
12 Nobby Licuria 25 0: 08" 100
Aurora_Australis13 David McDermot 33 0: 10" 90 Vitimper
14 Walter Coburn 26 0: 10" 80 ChronoTony
15 Jorik van der Toorn 33 0: 11" 70 WorldCiclyng
16 Anatoly Karpov 32 0: 12" 60 SentinelChickens
17 Peter Coleman 31 0: 12" 40
HTCHungria18 Dean Shields 31 0: 13" 30
Aurora_Australis19 Kirk Clinton 25 0: 13" 20
Aurora_Australis20 Salamon Jordáki 29 0: 14" 10 Codex
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Walt Judd 26 0: 14" 0 RealMurciaCycling
27
Charles Iverson 30 0: 15" 0 PucelaBike
Iverson had a mechanical breakdown in s3.Australia scored
695 points in this time trial. Thé rival Great Britain scored 560 points.
TOP 5 season ranking after 4 NT races ;
1.
1.645
2.
1.340
3.
830
4.
630
5.
550
Next week a flat-cobblehills race in France. It will be extreme hot with 39ºC, so I need to select enough water carriers.
The highest ranked GB cobblehills specialist has an active sun icon, ánd he is better ranked than the best Australian.
Maybe bad news. Although I cannot estimate if this is really bad, due to the different GV of this specific NT race 5, where flat counts a lot.
For now it seems it will be a battle for the worldchampionship between Australia and Great Britain.
But Norway and Spain have amazing cobblehills specialists, and with 2 cobblehills races to go, they might join the battle too.
Not what I expect, because both nations are far behind already, but it is possible.
What is the most worrying ( according to me ) ;
Great Britain will be amazing in flat-cobble race 7, and might gain up a bit in the next 2 cobblehills races.