Niagara wrap up

Well we only had three of us Joey Guliano, Josh Hall and Tim Lefebvre to do battle at the Niagara-Hamilton GP on the weekend. With a small team and big threat in the form of Peter Mazur who was home for the race, our plan was to try and get up and over the feared Effingham hill with the leaders, and have one of us left in the mix after 120km.

The road race was nicely controlled by ItalPasta as they kept sending one of their 11 guys up untill Chris Issac teamed up with Brandon Crichton and rolled away with Mazur. Guliano made the next move as Josh launched him away with Ontario champ Nat Faulkner and a few others. Joey ended up 5th on the day as Mazur simply rode away from everyone. Josh finished in the group and Tim rode seven laps before deciding to save it for tomorrow.



The crit course was the same as the 03 Nationals, fast and furious with a deadly off-camber corner only 150m from the line. The race was fast with constant attacks and counters. A break went clear one hour in, with three Itals, (the 2nd and 3rd on G.C) Darko Ficko, Dan Lefebvre and an Espoir Laval rider. Sensing the danger "Fever" leapt across and make it seven escapees. With Mazur left behind the three Itals and Darko lapped the field and would duke it out with the fresh Lefebvre brothers for the win. With three to go the bell rang for $100 and Fever dashed to the last corner ahead of the Ital lead-out. Whether he was going too hot or on a wrong line, his new Cervelo flew away from underneath him and he piled into the fence. After coming to a virtual halt, brother Dan rejoined the break and pulled off his first win in twelve years.



Joey Guliano ended up 6th on G.C behind Peter Mazur who managed to win the overall title by two points over the Ital pair, as he won the field sprint. Congrats to the SCCC for a great event and especially Martin Cramaro and Gus Nella for putting up the prize money.

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Tim has sent in more photos from this weekend of racing that can be seen in our flickr photo log