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shortis.com.au Cycling Team completes stellar season in Grafton

Shortis.com.au Cycling team has topped of a sensational final season winning the teams classification and placing 2nd overall in last weekend's Grafton to Inverell Classic. It was a great way to end the season for the team who raced the majority of the National series races throughout Australia. Although being one of the smaller teams in the National series, Shortis.com.au Cycling Team have made their presence felt.
Some of the Teams top results in 2010 include:

  • Winning the Teams Classification, Grafton to Inverell
  • 1st Stage 4, Tour of Tasmania – Brendan Brooks
  • 1st Qld State Championships – Brendan Brooks
  • 1st Grafton Teams Time Trial – Werrell, Cutajar, Marshal, McAllife, Brooks
  • 2nd Launceston to New Norfolk Classic – Chris Jory
  • 2nd Stage 1, Tour of Tasmania – Chris Jory
  • 2nd U23 State Championships – Mathew Marshall
  • 2nd Grafton to Inverell – Brendan Brooks
  • 2nd Toowoomba epic (MTB) – Brendan Brooks
  • 2nd Ride for Life – Luke Cridland
  • 4th Stage 1, Tour of Wellington, Mark Frendo
  • 5th Overall, Tour of Tasmania, Chris Jory
  • 6th Grafton to Inverell – Mathew Marshall
  • 6th Launceston to New Norfolk Classic – Brendan Brooks

Good luck to all the riders who are going their separate ways in 2011

Big thanks goes out to a number of people who have helped the team out over the last two years:

  • The teams major sponsor Jason Shortis who has made it financially possible to run the team over the last two years.
  • Tim from Market City Meats in Canningvale
  • LAS Helmets
  • Avanti Bicycles
  • Brett Blundell, who has taken his own time off work throughout the year to help the boys our at races.
  • All those people that have helped us out, during races or with accommodation, Fish & Di, Noel Jory, Peter Brooks.
  
 
 
  Posted 21st June 2010

Hi All,

Our Shortis.com.au Road Cycling Team competed in their first round of the National Road Series on the weekend in Toowoomba. Below is the race report from the weekend, written by our Kiwi Team member Mathew Marshall.

Look out for SBS's 1 hour broadcast of the event on Sunday 11th July

The boys next race will be The Tour of Gippsland, July 28 - August 1, 2010

Cheers
Brendan
Shortis Cycle & Tri 		 
 
 
  shortis.com.au Cycling Team Report
 Tour of Toowoomba 2010

  
 
Last weekend marked Shortis.com.au cycling team’s first Nation Road Series Tour - The Tour of Toowoomba. Mark Frendo was unable to start due to injury, however, that wasn’t enough to prevent the team from mixing it up throughout the weekend. 

The lineup for this tour included Matty Werrell, Benny Cutajar, Brenban Brooks, Matty Marshall, Luke Cridland with Brett Bundle as team manager. It was Luke Cridlands first appearance for the team aswell and first race for the season, so the weekend proved to be more of a form finder for Crito.
 
 
Friday
Stage 1 – 117km Road Stage

The tour began with what was previously anticipated as “the easy stage” that soon changed as cross winds, gravel sections and an abundance of high speed crashes came into play midway through the stage. Matty Werrell and Ben Cutajar did their job well by keeping the small and vulnerable Matty Marshall sheltered and out of trouble when the hammer went down in the gutter. There work resulted in getting the team’s GC rider across the line in the front bunch.		  
     
Saturday
Stage 2 - 111km Road Stage

The teams “opportunist rider” Brendan Brooks decided to take charge by making himself known in a promising break which established a third of the way though the stage. It was  not to be for Brendan “Brooksy” Brooks as the break was brought back during the final hour of the stage. Matty Marshall then made a move by slipping over one of the final K.O.M’s in a bunch of riders which separate themselves from the rest of the field and finished the stage well clear of the peloton		  
     
Sunday
Stage 3 (am) – 98km

Stage 3 was the penultimate stage of the tour with an extremely steep and technical decent shortly followed by an equally steep hill top finish at the end of the stage. After two days of  wall to wall blue sky Toowoomba decided it would make things interesting by turning on the rain and nearly putting the temperature into single figures. The high speed decent was made even sketchier as the riders were forced to navigate their way down tight bends in the wet. Sure enough, a large group of riders including our own Luke Cridland hit the deck coming into the fist hair pin corner which forced him to retire. The rest of the team fortunately managing to weave their way through the carnage unscathed but slightly separated from the front bunch. It was then that Brooksy made the superman effort to get Matty Marshall across to the front bunch and set him up for the hill top finish were Matty then climbed into 7th on GC during the solid accent.
  
     
Stage 4 (pm) - 21 lap 2.5km Crit

Things were not quite over for the boys after the final road stage. They still had to back it up with the Queens Park Criterium in the afternoon. It was a fast circuit with a mixture of both downhill and uphill sections. All of the team featured in the final stage by getting involved at the pointy end of the race. Brooksy got so involved that he was required to participate in doping controls after the race		  
     
 
     
The Tour of Toowoomba was a bit of a warm up for the team having being the first Nation Series race of the season, it was a good opportunity to start getting the legs race fit for bigger tours latter in the season.
     
view previous race reports
 
 
     

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