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2000 Junior
Tour 6 Day Stage Race
Stage 4 - 47.2 miles - Clonee -
Friday 19th August
Stage 4 is sponsored by the Grasshopper Inn Clonee
Official start in Dunboyne
At 20 miles 3 riders have almost 40 seconds
The Bunch at 20 miles
At 25 miles another breakaway group gets away
At 30 miles they have just one minute
Tim Cassidy leads the bunch
Breakaway at 35 miles
Bunch at 35 seconds
One of the worst things to happen in stage race:
e.g. - Kanturk rider punctures
Service car number 7 goes by and there is still no sign of the riders
team car
The whole field is just back together at 15 miles to go.
Second stage win for David Heavens of the Great Britain Team
Kieran Page adds another Yellow jersey to his collection
Now it's a short overnight before the Mountain stage tommorow morning
STAGE DETAILS
Sign on 5:30pm at Grasshopper Inn, Clonee
Start 6:30pm Sharp Assemble Grasshopper car park Right
(Neutralised) to Dunboyne 2.5mls
- 0.2mls Round - A - Bout straight
- 0.4mls Vere left dir Dunboyne
- 1.5mls Dunboyne village vere right dir Summerhill
- 2.5mls Racing starts proper
- 5.5mls Hatchet Inn straight
- 6.6mls Acute right bends
- 11.6mls Sharp right onto main road (Marshall)
- 12.2mls Right into Summerhill village
- 12.3mls Start Circuit
- 15.5mls Cat 4 K.O.H (Quarry)
- 16.6mls Left dir Rathmoylan at cross roads.
- 18.0mls S Bends
- 19.7mls Right through Rathmoylan
- 22.9mls Summerhill (Repeat Circuit One More
Time)
- 25.1mls Cat 4 K.O.H. Again quarry
- 33.6mls Summerhill Right
- 33.7mls Left
- 33.8mls Fork left dir Dunboyne
- 39.0mls Dangerous bends
- 47.2mls Finish in Dunboyne Village
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