Results NT race 4, the stormy flat TT of 52 km in Zaragoza (
between ( s26= .. ) the NT TT result of previous season what was 1 km longer ) :
1
Jonny Alfier 30 0: 00" 300
Innioraths -->
victory ! (
s26= 4º )
2 Gregor Arzdorf 28 0: 00" 250 JGMTeam
3 Harz Muff 28 0: 10" 225 Quickstepbronx
4
Lenny Taylor 29 0: 11" 200
RHyNeStOnEs (
s26= 9º )
5 Fabien Gallas 28 0: 12" 180 Thorboassonarvesen
6 Stu Harris 27 0: 12" 160 Wizards
7 Job Hals 28 0: 14" 150 Yvo_Meppelink_ProCycling
8
Alex Trautemberg* 29 0: 15" 140
ChampsElysees --> with mechanical breakdown in s2. (
s26= 19º )
9
Billy Janson 29 0: 15" 130
OphiukoCT (
s26= 14º )
10 Manuel Enrique Porras 28 0: 17" 120 TeamSerfin
11
Gilbert Johnston* 29 0: 17" 110
Wiggo_pupils --> with mechanical breakdown in s2. (
s26= 18º )
12 Mirko DiLuca 29 0: 17" 100 catapunchimpon
13 Anders Vikan 28 0: 18" 90 CobbleCrushers
14 Erik Kõuts 24 0: 19" 80 Stuttgarter
15 Claudio Russo 24 0: 20" 70 Sonfuga
16
Eric Armstrong 30 0: 21" 60
TTeam (
s26= 6º )
17 Stefan Lievens 26 0: 21" 40 ChampsElysees
18 Ethan Payne 27 0: 21" 30 Facha_Bartolo
19 Bela Stepanov 24 0: 21" 20 El_Realidad
20 Pedro Jose Lamas 28 0: 22" 10 galegospolabici
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24
Maurice Hunter 25 0: 24" 0 SPORTLIFE
28
Sammy Alfier 24 0: 25" 0 Facha_Bartolo
56
Rick Herd 24 0: 35" 0 SPORTLIFE
Too bad that the 2 Australians with an active weather icon*, both got a mechanical breakdown.
None of the foreign top TT specialists had this bad luck, with the exception of Dixon ( GB ) who finished as 22º.
But of course, I'm very happy with this great victory, excellent other results, and the total of
940 points in this time trial.
And good to point out that these Australian results are higher as expected,
because Portugal did not had a NT selection, and they have the nrs
3( ! ),
6( ! ), 17 and 21 in the flat-TT ranking of CFF.
Russia had no selection too, but that did not matter to these NT results, because Russia has no possible-points-scoring TT specialist.
Maurice Hunter and Sammy Alfier almost scored points despite their very low experience.
And it seems that Rick Herd had a very unlucky race, and/or it shows that experience is very important,
because he has 13 xp less as Sammy Alfier and 17 xp less as Maurice Hunter.
And Rick Herd is higher in the CFF ranking than Maurice Hunter and the points scoring Eric Armstrong.
Besides this, Rick Herd had the 3rd best stamina of this selection.
Well, next in line to be selected ( instead of Rick Herd ) were for sure the 34yo's of Aurora Australis ; Tod Henderson and Nobby Licuria.
But looking at these results + their race GV + their experience, my estimation was correct ;
They were not good enough anymore to score points.
For example nr 16 Eric Armstrong has a much better race GV, he has also 100 xp, and barely made it into the top 20.
And nice to see that since today, the 34yo's former amazing TT specialists of AA are now very proudly in his impressive hall of fame.
Australia is the new leader in the season ranking.
Top 10 after 4 races ( incl. 3 NT victories of Australia ! ! ! ) =
1.
1.540 2.
1.200
3.
950
4.
715
5.
650
6.
600
7.
590
8.
545
9.
525
10
470
Next week we are going to a rainy Belgium,
where the many excellent Australian cobblehills-specialists will battle on the exact same track as Dwars door Vlaanderen.
It might be a very important race for a possible Australian world championship, because almost no points are expected in NT race 7,
and it is very uncertain how all nations will do in NT race 6, the climb sprint, that was never before a NT race.
