TIME TRIAL RESULT Stockwell is tour leader

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33060, 30 October 1972, Page 26

TIME TRIAL RESULT Stockwell is tour leader

f.Veic Zealand Press Association? AUCKLAND. Predictions that this year’s Dulux six-day cycle race will be very evenly contested were borne out by the times in yesterday's preliminary five-mile time trial along the Auckland waterfront.

In the past, there has been a difference of up to two minutes between the fastest and slowest in the time trial. This time, only 68 seconds separated the winner, B. G. Stockwell (Canterbury) and the New Caledonian, A. Lutafu. in twenty-ninth place. Stockwell, a Munich Olympian, was first away and promptly posted the best time —Bmin 31sec—for the ride from Mechanics Bay to Kohitnarama. HUGHES SECOND In second place, eight seconds back, was M. J. Hughes (Southland), who is,

i like Stockwell, riding in his J first Dulux race. Three seconds behind Hughes, with a time of Snhn 1142 sec, was last year's winner iand, for many people, the ! favourite again this time, V ;(Hanaray (Hastings). Last I year, Hanaray rode the five I miles seven seconds faster . | but was only twenty-fourth . in the field of 41. II Behind Hanaray was the 11 young Canterbury rider, A. ■ D. Morris, who in only his :second season on the road, [has shown promise of a bright future. He is the Canterbury 110-mile (track) and 50-mile (road) champion, and was a ■'member of the Papanui team (which won the Hope Gibbons •Shield. A second behind Morris came three riders equal on Bmin 49sec. FIRST OF NOUMEANS Included in this group was the first of the eight-man New Caledonian contingent. J. G. Siken. He last rode in the sixday in 1969, and last month rode very well to take fifth place in the arduous Tour of New Caledonia. Equal with Siken were B. Ulyatt (Hastings) and K. Collins (Wellington). Both are experienced riders and should do well this time. Two other likely tour contenders, D. Brown (New Plymouth), the 1968 winner, and B. Cornish (Wellington), winner of the Manawatu race, filled the eighth and tenth places respectively. The placings of other Canterbury riders were: J. L, Ryder, 9:02, equal 13; G. Neale, 9:24, 26. SMALLEST FIELD

So, with Stockwell wearing the tour leader’s yellow jersey the tour-proper starts today, the first stage ending in Paeroa and the second in Tauranga.

Two further last-minute withdrawals have reduced the field to 29—the smallest in the 13-year history of the race.