The Coffeeliscious team won three races on program for the final round of the Nowra Velo Club's 2021 Optus team series.
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Coffeeliscious has now won the overall team series for 2021 and on the way, they have won six of the 12 rounds and placed second in four other rounds.
In 2020 the Coffeeliscious team finished the Optus series equal with Access Storage.
This year Access has finished in equal second position with the Allen Price and Scarratts team, while Hanlon Windows have placed fourth.
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All four teams will return for the 2022 program but all teams will see changes to their personnel.
The teams have been redrawn for the next year of racing.
The three winners for Coffeeliscious in this final round 12 of the series were Mark Astley (A grade), Jason Spence (C grade) and Ethan Astley (D grade).
The final individual points classification winner for the 2021 Optus series is Mark Williams, who has been a dominant rider for the Allen Price and Scarratts team.
Williams has won this individual section with 244 points from Mark Astley (205), Jason Spence (195), Ben Wallis (169) and Adrian McMillan (159).
This latest program saw a combined A and B grade race where Astley won a hectic sprint to the line by a length from Mark Williams.
Charlotte McShane was third, ahead of Ben Wallis and Phil Rice.
Numbers were low for the higher grades and while the wet weather persisted in some areas, it was dry at the race venue of Yerriyong.
Jason Spence rode his usual aggressive race in C grade and when teamed with breakaway companion, Peter Bresser (Illawarra CC), they lapped the remainder of the C grade field.
Spence then won the sprint finish from Bresser, Dave Gray (Access), McMillan, Jose Pereira (Access), Bill Stahlhut (Hanlon), Gary Bryce (Coffeeliscious), Michael Berriman (Coffeeliscious), Jon Schol (Nowra Velo) and Ned Grootenboer (Hanlon).
The other Coffeeliscious win was to Ethan Astley.
He bolted from the D grade pack with 600 metres remaining and finished solo with almost 100m to spare.
Matt Grootenboer (Access) cleaned up the sprint for second position, ahead of Hubert Driehuis (Allen Price and Scarratts), John Cullity (Access), Michael Thompson (Hanlon), Jamie Overton (Hanlon) and Jo Chalain (Coffeeliscious).
The Nowra Velo Club has only two more programs to run for the 2021 season.
Next Sunday will feature the club's criterium championships and the final day of racing for this year will be on December 12 for the George Johnson Memorial, as graded criteriums.
Both programs will be at the Albatross Aviation Technology Park.
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