Eddie Dunbar of Team Ireland celebrates after winning Stage 7 of the An Post Rás from Dungarvan to Baltinglass (Photo: Morgan Treacy - Inpho)
Eddie Dunbar has spoken of his delight at having won the penultimate stage of the An Post Rás into Baltinglass, Co Wicklow, saying he was especially pleased to win a UCI ranked race in front of home crowds.
The Team Ireland man said the racing was very aggressive from the off in Dungarvan and while he felt he perhaps did too much too early he found himself one of five men to push ahead over the top of the cat 1 Mount Leinster.
Up the road with three of the Australian team and the yellow jersey Clemens Fankhauser, it was not in his interests to help the three men in the group ahead of him overall to gain more time on everyone else.
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When the chips were down, Eddie Dunbar showed he can be as cagey as the best in the game (Photo: Morgan Treacy - Inpho)
So he made a wise decision to initially sit in and it was only when the gap started to come down between the breakaway and the next group on the road that those he was with asked him to work and he agreed.
While he always put himself under pressure and others expected big things from him, his win hadn’t yet sunk in.
He also believed while it would be very hard to drop the Australian team on the final stage, the race for yellow wasn’t over.
Eddie Dunbar speaks to Shane Stokes
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