The Access Storage team took another win in the Nowra Velo Club's 2022 Optus Series on Sunday.
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While the Access team did not win any of the four events on the program, they were most consistent with their placings across the grades.
The team lined up the most riders on the day and this heavily contributed to the team win.
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Of the four Optus team events held for 2022, the Access Storage team has triumphed in all of them.
The Access team win on this latest program was a clear one over the Hanlon Windows team and the overall team classification has Access with a comfortable lead on 200 points.
Hanlon Windows are second with 120, Allen Price and Scarratts have 110 points and Coffeeliscious, the winning team of 2020 and 2021 have 90 points.
Individual wins on this program came from Jamie Overton (Hanlon) in D grade, ahead of Matt Grootenboer (Access), Ned Grootenboer (APS), Mick Thompson (APS), Hubert Driehuis (APS), Pat McGill (Hanlon), Jo Chalain (Access), Zara Jobson (Access), Scott Jobson (APS) and Greg Showell (APS).
With no current team affiliation, Jade Colligan won the C grade race in a close finish over Jayson Gay (Illawarra CC). Bill Stahlhut (Access) was third.
These three riders had escaped from the C grade main bunch in the closing stages of the race and remained clear for the finish.
Doug Gray (Access) finished fourth ahead of Trent Wiseman (Access), Aaron Lauder (Hanlon), Geoff Lockhart (Hanlon), Jose Pereira (Access), Gary Bryce (Coffeeliscious), Chris Harrison (Coffeeliscious), Duncan Miller (SCUM) and Liam Wallis.
Scott James took the B grade win after avoiding a fall on the final corner.
Harry Ludman (Access) slipped and crashed as first rider into the corner, losing some skin in the process.
Richard Vitiello (APS), Brad Oaten and Michael Berriman (Coffeeliscious) avoided the crash and were next to finish.
Josh Ludman (Hanlon) took the A grade win with a solo ride over the last half of the race.
Nathan Crump (APS) and Ben Wallis (Access) fought out a close finish for second, decision to Crump. Mark Williams (Hanlon) placed fourth.
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