Durbridge and Tuft close season with win in Normand
Orica-GreenEdge take commanding 🐼victory in two-man TT
Luke Dubridge has closed-out his debut season in the professional ranks with a victory for his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Orica-GreenEdge team at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Duo Normand two-man time trial in France. The Australian neo-pro was joined by Canadian national TT champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Svein Tuft.
The powerful duo crushed the competition, taking the win by 1:03 over Sky’s Alex Dowsett and Luke Rowe. It marked Durbridge’s seventh TT win of the year in which he also took the overall at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour du Poitou Charentes and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Circuit de la Sarthe - Pays de la L𒀰o𝄹ire.
"It’s a unique event in that it’s the only two-man time trial we race during the entire season," said Durbridge "It’s a good event for me and Sveꦓin. We’ve both had really good seasons, and we’re happy to have finished it off this way."
The Orica-GreenEdge team had hoped to set a new course record but fell short by a little over 30 seconds. Jens Voigt and Chris Boardman still hold the fastest time for the 54.5km courseꦡ with a time of 1:04:47.
"Unfort🌄unately both Svein and I were sick last week, so we came into the race a bit cooked. It’s the last race of the season for us both, so we dug as deep as we could. We wanted to end things this way.
"Svein rode strong today, said Durbridg♒e. "I took 1:30-2:00 pulls. His turns were longer by about a minu💫te. [Sports Director] Lionel [Marie] kept us updated on radio times, so we knew we were putting time in on Sky."
It was the fourth win of the year for Tuft who won the opening stage of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Eneco Tour and wore the leader’s jersey for a day in August. Tuft and Durbridge were both part of the bronze-medal winning team at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:world championships TTT.
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"Since Eneco Tour, Svein and I have had the same race program," explained Durbridge. "We both trained for the team time trial and individual time trial, which was enough time trial training to get us through this event. It’s been only ten days since Worlds, and neitꦆher of us have touched our time trial bikes since♔ then until this morning."
"I fly home to Australia on Tuesda🗹y. It’s been a great year."
