Anything but a fight between Haig and Morton would be a surprise today.
A group of 56 riders enters the final climb together, from now on it’s 16 km uphill.
Vine attacks rather early in the climb and drags Schultz, Sunderland, Haig and Plapp with him.
It took quite some time for Berwick to bring Morton back to the front, but with 6 km to go we finally have a leading group of 11.
Haig made the pace for most of the remaining climb with Morton mostly at the back of the melting group, but with 1.3 km to go they are finally alone at the front with only Plapp somewhere near.
And in the end Morton had a bit more left.
Congratulations to Morton to what will probably be his last RR NC title!
 
Result
1
Lachlan Morton
cycleYorkshire
1h35'24
2
Jack Haig
Sony - Force India
+ 7
3
Luke Plapp
Evonik - ELKO
+ 1'29
4
Lucas Hamilton
Hunter Valley Cycling
+ 1'48
5
Nicholas Schultz
Peugeot - Bancolombia
+ 2'15
6
Jay Vine
ELCO - ABEA
+ 2'39
7
Robert Power
Spark Team NZ
+ 2'49
8
Chris Harper
cycleYorkshire
+ 3'01
9
Dylan Sunderland
Everesting
+ 3'12
10
Michael Storer
Hunter Valley Cycling
s.t.
11
Robert Stannard
Everesting
+ 3'37
12
Ben O'Connor
Assa Abloy
s.t.
13
Jay McCarthy
Polar
+ 4'13
14
Sebastian Berwick
cycleYorkshire
+ 4'49
15
Calvin Watson
Bianchi Enel
+ 5'34
16
Jarrad Drizners
Air New Zealand-Prada
+ 6'10
17
Caleb Ewan
MOL Cycling Team
s.t.
18
Chris Hamilton
Bolt - Eesti
+ 6'18
19
Zac Marriage
Hunter Valley Cycling
+ 6'47
20
Harry Sweeny
Polar
s.t.
21
Kaden Groves
Jura GIANTS
+ 7'50
22
Michael Hepburn
SEE Turtles
+ 8'36
23
Cyrus Monk
Hunter Valley Cycling
s.t.
24
Cameron Scott
cycleYorkshire
+ 9'08
25
Marcus Culey
Assa Abloy
+ 11'22
26
Luke Durbridge
Polar
+ 11'34
27
Fergus Browning
Hunter Valley Cycling
+ 12'00
28
Samuel Welsford
ELCO - ABEA
+ 13'06
29
Alexander Edmondson
Spark Team NZ
+ 13'54
30
Damien Howson
Spark Team NZ
+ 14'44
31
Declan Trezise
Hunter Valley Cycling
+ 15'20
32
Callum Scotson
MOL Cycling Team
+ 17'26
33
Brady Gilmore
Hunter Valley Cycling
+ 25'53
 
[NC] Time Trial
It’s a rather open field in the ITT with the likes of Howson, Plapp, Haig, Hepburn and Durbridge all in the mix.
Hepburn sets a bar of 1h06’40.
Haig misses the lead on the fractions.
Plapp is more than a minute slower than the best time.
Durbridge nearly caught him, his time is 43’’ better than the previous lead.
Howson misses the best time by 21’’ and comes in 2nd.
[NC] Road Race 
