2005 FBD INSURANCE RAS: Stage 7 Pictures

Posted in: Peter Purfield, Archive , Road: 2005 - 2009
By Peter Purfield
May 28, 2005 - 9:59:00 PM

Some pictures of stage 7 taken by Peter Purfield

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The race heads into the Wicklow mountains today, the weather is dry but very windy


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Race leader Chris Newton is close to the front as they climb Slieveman Cat 1 KOM at 19 Kms


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The riders are well spread out on this 4.5 Kms climb


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The eventual KOM winner is a long way back on this the second climb of the day


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More riders


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Now at 25Kms and after 3 KOM's the race is split into several groups


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A couple of riders jump clear of the front group at 30 Kms


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A few more riders get accross to the leaders


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This is the leading group at 50 Kms


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The Welsh team have joined in to drive the bunch


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The leaders at 80 Kms


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Mark Lovatt is now grabbing valuable points to take the KOM jersey


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The Recycling Team push it up a gear and start to haul the leaders back


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On the road to Sally Gap the chasers are lines out


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The leading group splits as the approach the top of Sally Gap at 103 Kms


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The yellow jersey group is very close to the front group


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A great crowd of supporters came our to Sally Gap


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The fast descent of Sally Gap


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3 riders are still out front as they climb to the last KOM of the day 'Lugalla'


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A few more riders have joined up with the chasers


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Heading for Roundwood 188 Kms the leads still have 30 secs


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The chasers caught up at 2 Kms to go and Morten Hegreberg of Norway wins


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Newton finishes 10th and holds the jersey


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Stage Winner - Morten Christiansen (Norway – Sparebanken Vest)


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Another yellow jersey for Chris Newton (GB – Recycling.co.uk)