Rob Scott soon backed up his stage and GC wins at the Tour of Mirabelle with a sprint win at the UCI 1.2 Paris-Troyes race.

The field consisted of 12 UCI Continental and 12 French elite and club teams.

1. WiV SunGod prepare for the race

WiV SunGod were represented by Matt Bostock, Jim Brown, Ben Perry, Jacob Scott, Rob Scott, Matthew Teggart and Reece Wood.

2. Teggart, Perry, Brown, Wood, J Scott, Bostock and R Scott at the team presentation

The 180km route started in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, the rest place of the famous French General and President Charles de Gaulle, which is 260km south-east of Paris and headed westwards in the direction of Paris. The hilly parcours included 1935 vertical metres of climbing which would favour the strengths of riders who had performed well at Mirabelle.

3. The breakaway approaches the Lorraine Cross, the Symbol of Free France

After 25km Perry and Wood helped form a breakaway of 7 riders. Another 10km further on the breakaway had swelled to 13 riders with Rob Scott and Teggart joining their team-mates although their lead was being held to under a minute by the peloton.

4. Reece Wood in the early breakaway

With 80km gone, the lead group further increased to 20 riders with Jacob Scott now joining the party while the main peloton was losing more ground. Over the next few kilometres the lead group further increased to 29 riders and developed a maximum gap of 4 minutes over the chasing peloton.

5. Teggart leads the growing breakaway

With strength in numbers, the WiV SunGod riders made numerous attempts to escape from the lead group shedding a few riders along the way, but nothing stuck until Perry made his move with about 16km remaining. Perry rode strongly over the closing kilometres extending his lead up to 25 seconds but inevitably his lead diminished over the rest of the large breakaway and he was caught going into the last kilometre.

6. WiV SunGod with 4 riders dominate the breakaway of 13

However, WiV SunGod were not to be denied with Teggart leading out Rob Scott to sprint to another fantastic win for the team with Spaniard Xavier Canellas (Java Kiwi Atlantico) in 2^nd and Frenchman Kevin Avoine (CC Nogent-sur-Oise) in 3rd. Teggart took 4^th, Wood 14^th, Jacob Scott 20^th, Perry 21^st, Bostock 26^th and Brown 27^th.

7. Teggart leads out Rob Scott for the sprint win

8. Rob Scott nails the sprint

After the race Rob Scott commented on Instagram:

 ‘Managed to get another win at Paris-Troyes yesterday after a faultless performance from all the @wiv_sungod boys.
Looking forward to see what we can do over the next few races!’   

Tim Elverson posted the following:

‘We came with momentum and a plan, the two combined to have 5 in the main break, after executing all day we nearly had the @benjefperry solo win after a 15k end move, but with a group determined for that not to happen he got caught 700m to go, so planB, execute a perfect lead out had to happen and we delivered @__robwscott__ 💪 for the win @paris.troyes.uci . Very happy with how the squad is working together and 6 uci wins is reward #ltgtr #stillneedabikedeal
#foundmorepics’

9. Rob Scott on the podium with the winners trophy

Photo Credits

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 9: Alexis Dancerelle, DirectVelo

7: Alizee Quere

8: Serge Detroy

Article: Paul and Marina Stedman