Mark O’Brien and Courtney Sherwell won the elite categories of the first edition of Sutton Grange Winery Uncorked Gravel, with both using their tried and tested method of striking out solo to claim victory from among a field that contained many of Australia’s top gravel contenders.
For O’Brien, the Melbourne to Warrnambool victor who has for so long sought the top step, it was his second big win in as many weeks. “When it rains it pours. Another hard race that played my way and I didn’t have any mechanical bad luck out there which has plagued me a couple of times in the gravel racing," O'Brien told Cyclingnews after the event near the regional Victorian city of Bendigo.
