Newton continues to impress

53rd FBD Insurance Rás Stage 6: Abbeyleix - Rathdrum, 160 km British Olympic and world championship medalist Chris Newton continued his dominance of this year's Rás with a devastatingly powerful victory in today's stage.

Newton is just impressive here day after day, even though today his team seemed to weaken a bit, he was strong. And he looks pretty much unstopable on the GC here in Ireland. On paper tomorrow is one of the hardest day of the Rás, but like yesterday, you never know. Not that yesterday was 'easy' just it didn't turn into the all out GC slug fest that was expected.

We had a pretty calm day today, maybe we're getting a bit tired, or maybe we just had a quiet day. We're all pretty happy with Buck's ride yesterday. We are hoping he can pull it off again tomorrow.

results

1 Chris Newton (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 4.01.09
2 Morten Hegreberg (Nor) Sparebanken Vest 0.05
3 Nathan Mitchell (USA) TIAA-CREF
4 Eugene Moriarty (Irl) cycleways.com
5 Yanto Barker (GBr) Stena
6 Malcolm Elliott (GBr) Trinity Capital 0.06
7 John Tanner (GBr) Trinity Capital 0.11
8 Tim Barry (Irl) Dan Morrissey
9 Robin Sharman (GBr) Recycling.co.uk
10 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) Grant Thornton
11 Rostislav Krotky (Cze) Elmarco KK 0.13
12 Julian Winn (GBr) Stena
13 Sigvard Kukk (Est) Kalev Chocolate
14 Tino Haakman (Ned) BRC Kennemerland
15 Gary Dodd (GBr) SurreyRacing League 0.16
16 Morten Christiansen (Nor) Sparebanken Vest
17 Andrew Roche (Irl) Worldwide Cycles
18 Jiri Korbel (Cze) Elmarco KK 0.20
19 Roger Aiken (Irl) Safe Cycling
20 Paul Healion (Irl) Usher Insulations

33 Zach Bell (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee
54 Kevin Miller (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee
91 Andrew Randell (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee
148 Mark Pozniak (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee

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