Start	End	Race	team goal	results
01-Jun	03-Jun	Scandinavia Open Road Race	-	GC Top 25; 2nd KoM

We weren’t mentioned or seen in the first two stages which isn’t great in a WC race. But APP stayed long enough with the favourites to finish the race in 23rd place. But the revelation of the race was Juntunen who made it to the break in the final stage twice and was active enough in the KoM sprints to jump to 2nd in this classification – surely something we didn’t expect from him in any race, let alone on PT level.

points:

n/a

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
05-Jun	08-Jun	Tour of East Java	-	GC Top 25; Stage Podium

Stage 1 nearly caught us on the wrong foot, but after Ranaweera was on the wrong side of a split for quite some time everyone was in s.t. in the end. Hodeg managed a 12th place in this stage, too. Stage 2 saw Juntunen in the break, snatching some (in the end meaningless) KoM points and Hodeg finishing 16th. Stage 3 was the decisive one for the GC. We weren’t mentioned anywhere, but with Ranaweera and Pinot in 13th and 28th in GC afterwards it was pretty much what we could reasonably hope for. The former lost a position in the final stage on countback while the later gained one, but it was really more about the stage itself. We got Mestric in the break to cover any shenanigans, but in the end it was once again Hodeg who got the result, finishing in 2nd after squeezing himself into position with a daredevil move.

points:	73
Suranga Ranaweera	39
Alvaro Hodeg	20
Thibault Pinot	14

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
20-Jun	26-Jun	Tour of California	-	GC Podium; GC Top 25; Stage Podium; Stage Top 10

After seeing the startlist we had high hopes for Ranaweera in this race. The initial prologue was as unspectacular for us as the next pan flat stage. Stage 3 saw a first smaller GC fight on an uphill finish and Ranaweera came in 13th with the first big group there. He did the same with a 9th place in the next stage, climbing to 5th in the GC. The fifth stage was one for the sprinters, but then the GC fight really began. Ranaweera was active and strong in the only mountain stage, finishing 3rd right with the favourites, thus getting his first podium for the team and climbing to 4th in the GC before the final ITT, keeping his chances for a GC podium up. And he gained one position in the final stage, getting our first GC podium of the season in the end. Hadi, Pinot, Garibian and Vauquelin added some nice depth scoring, making this race the success we hoped for.

points:	180
Suranga Ranaweera	136
Janvier Hadi	23
Thibault Pinot	11
Arman Garibian	8
Kevin Vauquelin	2

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
21-Jun	24-Jun	Tour of Luxembourg	-	2nd KoM; Stage Top 10

We hoped for a good GC result from Paulus here, but he (and the rest of the team too) lost lots of time in the first stage, so the tactics for the race had to change to breakaway action. Stage 2 saw Belohvosciks in the break once again and Pithie snatching a 10th place in the sprint. Our rider for the next stage was Baudin who took advantage of the C2 rule for stagiaires and showed our colours in the break while climbing to 4th in the KoM competition. And he did even climb to 2nd in this classification after another breakaway appearance in the final stage, ending as our only points scorer in the race.

points:	9
Alex Baudin	9

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
28-Jun		Clasica San Sebastian	-	Top 10

Louvel was in the break of the day, so we didn’t have to work in the peloton. We wouldn’t have to anyway, but it’s nice to have a better reason than having no contender. Which obviously wasn’t true too as APP did what we hoped for (but didn’t really expect) as he was with the favourites nearly till the end and won the sprint of the second group, resulting in a surprising 10th place.

points:	37
Aurelien Paret-Peintre	37

Start	End	Race	Cat
01-Aug	05-Aug	Tour de Vineyards	C1

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Kristians Belohvosciks	70	60	62	67	69	71	65	62	59	67	69	65	72	22
	Ewen Costiou	71	66	72	68	71	68	63	66	70	72	68	69	69	22
	Alvaro Hodeg	72	53	65	67	69	74	70	51	79	78	53	64	73	28
	Matis Louvel	75	64	71	71	73	76	69	74	67	67	67	66	71	25
	Tobias Lund Andresen	66	56	60	60	68	68	62	60	71	73	57	63	59	22
	Laurence Pithie	72	66	72	71	73	73	70	73	72	73	67	72	69	22
	Suranga Ranaweera	67	80	73	76	75	75	74	52	58	65	57	69	73	29
	Kevin Vauquelin	68	73	67	72	68	72	70	58	68	68	71	70	71	23

We have Hodeg for the three sprint stages and Ranaweera for the mountain stage, hoping for a not too strong competition in both terrains. The final TTT will probably hinder our GC ambitions though.

Start	End	Race	Cat
07-Aug	11-Aug	Post Danmark Rundt	HC

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Lewis Askey	67	63	70	58	69	65	69	72	66	73	60	67	67	23
	Alex Baudin	65	66	66	66	68	66	67	63	63	66	67	65	63	23
	Kristians Belohvosciks	70	60	62	67	69	71	65	62	59	67	69	65	72	22
	Joris Delbove	65	74	72	58	67	72	74	62	60	69	71	72	58	24
	Alvaro Hodeg	72	53	65	67	69	74	70	51	79	78	53	64	73	28
	Antti-Jussi Juntunen	68	63	72	61	67	70	65	61	68	71	68	61	60	25
	Paul Lapeira	73	69	71	61	70	70	67	71	72	73	75	70	64	24
	Tobias Lund Andresen	66	56	60	60	68	68	62	60	71	73	57	63	59	22

We couldn’t avoid this race, so it’s all about getting some stage results from Hodeg once again and seeing our riders in the breaks. Apart from that we’re mostly hunting XP here.

Start	End	Race	Cat
11-Aug		GP Kigali	C1

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Ewen Costiou	71	66	72	68	71	68	63	66	70	72	68	69	69	22
	Maxime Daniel	72	55	68	55	75	75	72	79	75	71	68	73	63	33
	Conor Dunne	66	74	74	69	71	72	73	70	62	69	74	69	69	32
	Janvier Hadi	68	74	72	74	73	70	71	61	74	71	68	69	74	32
	Matis Louvel	75	64	71	71	73	76	69	74	67	67	67	66	71	25
	Matija Mestric	73	63	70	63	69	70	68	76	55	65	71	75	67	27
	Rui Oliveira	70	67	76	70	77	72	72	66	75	78	65	67	71	28
	Laurence Pithie	72	66	72	71	73	73	70	73	72	73	67	72	69	22

It’s the last cobbled race of our season and so the last opportunity for Daniel to get a good result. There are some bumps on the road, but he should be okay with them. He doesn’t have his entire support squad here though due to XP management reasons, but at least this gives us the opportunity to send Hadi to his home race.

Start	End	Race	Cat
22-Aug		Milano - Torino	HC

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Lewis Askey	67	63	70	58	69	65	69	72	66	73	60	67	67	23
	Alex Baudin	65	66	66	66	68	66	67	63	63	66	67	65	63	23
	Kristians Belohvosciks	70	60	62	67	69	71	65	62	59	67	69	65	72	22
	Ewen Costiou	71	66	72	68	71	68	63	66	70	72	68	69	69	22
	Arman Garibian	69	74	70	71	72	73	76	55	60	70	66	70	71	24
	Olivier Le Gac	70	69	77	60	73	74	71	52	64	69	74	73	60	31
	Tobias Lund Andresen	66	56	60	60	68	68	62	60	71	73	57	63	59	22
	Aurelien Paret-Peintre	72	76	77	72	73	75	73	63	72	74	72	70	72	28

It’s double-header time and we have to split up our hills squad to get something out of both races. With a rather selective finale and an uphill finish we chose to send APP here to get us a result.

Start	End	Race	Cat
22-Aug		GP Lugano	HC

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Welay Hagos Berhe	67	71	69	69	71	68	71	60	61	66	67	64	67	23
	Alan Boileau	67	73	75	65	68	70	72	62	67	74	66	67	64	25
	Joris Delbove	65	74	72	58	67	72	74	62	60	69	71	72	58	24
	Janvier Hadi	68	74	72	74	73	70	71	61	74	71	68	69	74	32
	Paul Lapeira	73	69	71	61	70	70	67	71	72	73	75	70	64	24
	Matis Louvel	75	64	71	71	73	76	69	74	67	67	67	66	71	25
	Rui Oliveira	70	67	76	70	77	72	72	66	75	78	65	67	71	28
	Daniel Paulus	69	74	77	64	71	68	73	56	62	71	73	67	64	31

Part two of the hilly double header and it’s actually a goal race for us. We hope to achieve the top 5 with Oliveira here, counting on less selective race than in Italy with most of the bigger obstacles in the first half of the race.

Start	End	Race	Cat
23-Aug	31-Aug	Tour de l'Avenir	U23

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Lewis Askey	67	63	70	58	69	65	69	72	66	73	60	67	67	23
	Alex Baudin	65	66	66	66	68	66	67	63	63	66	67	65	63	23
	Welay Hagos Berhe	67	71	69	69	71	68	71	60	61	66	67	64	67	23
	Ewen Costiou	71	66	72	68	71	68	63	66	70	72	68	69	69	22
	Tobias Lund Andresen	66	56	60	60	68	68	62	60	71	73	57	63	59	22
	Laurence Pithie	72	66	72	71	73	73	70	73	72	73	67	72	69	22
	Pedro Silva	66	69	70	58	75	73	66	60	65	74	74	65	60	23
	Kevin Vauquelin	68	73	67	72	68	72	70	58	68	68	71	70	71	23

It’s always one of our season highlights to see the future of our team ride in the Tour de l’Avenir. We once again send a nearly complete squad (including two of our loanees) with the addition of Akers Pedro Silva. We don’t have a top-favourite in any terrain, but we have some options in all of them. The major goal will be a GC top 5 by Vauquelin though.

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
01-Jul		Riga - Jurmala GP	-	Top 10

We got Askey in the break and though the young Brit wasn’t able to repeat his Great Ocean Race Classic magic we got some nice points out of the race after Hodeg did another of his PTHC performances where he isn’t seen all race and finishes 7th in the end, starting the month on a high.

points:	60
Alvaro Hodeg	60

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
03-Jul	23-Jul	Tour de France	-	Stage Top 10s

We actually opened the race in the prologue with Vauquelin, but that’s as much as we can say about our prologue. Lapeira joined the break in the first proper road stage and got some points there. Berhe was on breakaway duty in stage 3. Vauquelin and Delbove were in the break in the next stages. And though nothing came out of this efforts so far we were in every break, so the team did what we hoped for. As a reward our riders took a day off in stage 6. A rested Vauquelin entered the break in the next stage, once again fruitless. Stage 8 was a huge one for the GC, but we also played our small role in it with Louvel in the break and Pinot on the attack later in the stage. Louvel got into the mood and accompanied Berhe for some more TV time in stage 9. Our Ethiopean did the same in the next stage before our team used the TT in stage 11 as a rest day. Then it was French National Holiday and we nearly missed the break of the day, but in the end Pinot made it there and though he wasn’t able to fight for the stage or KoM, he finished 7th in the end and netted us our first top 10 in the race. And while Pinot failed to join the first group of the break in the next (really short) stage, he was part of the first chasing group and added another 7th place from this attack. Stage 14 saw a new name in the break with Delbove, making it 7/8 riders in breaks so far. The next stage was pan-flat so we weren’t disappointed when none of our riders joined the break. There also wasn’t anything in it for us in stage 16. So we sent two riders into the next break with Pinot and Vauquelin, but once again the break wasn’t successful. We tried the same in stage 18 with Pinot and Garibian, but once again to no success. At least we managed to get every single rider in a break this way. In stage 19 Delbove and once again Pinot were our men in the break. The last mountain stage was anonymous for us, as was the cours d`honneur on the Champs Elysées.

In the end we achieved our main goal (apart from getting our youngsters much needed XP) as we were active throughout the race, getting every single of our riders in one break or the other. In total we gathered 19 breakaway appearances, 6 of them by Pinot alone who also got our only actual results with two 7th places.

points:

n/a

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
08-Jul	11-Jul	Euskal Bizikleta	-	GC Top 10; Stage Top 5; Stage Top 10s

We came to the Basque country with Oliveira as our captain and he showed this was a good decision already in the first stage where he finished 5th and got some bonus seconds. He added a 6th place in the next (and last) flat stage, getting himself in a good position for the hilly stages. He got another 6th place in stage three. He did a bit worse in the last stage, but as he still finished in the first group he got 8th in the GC in the end.

points:	45
Rui Oliveira	44
Laurence Pithie	1

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
18-Jul	23-Jul	Benelux Challenge	-	KoM Win; Stage Top 5

The opening prologue was never to be a good stage, so our race really began with stage 2. We got Lund Andresen in the break in stage 2, but spoiled all GC hopes by Daniel being dropped in a split and everyone else also losing time. So it was on someone else to salvage this race and Askey did his best by dominating the KoM sprints in stage 3 and taking over the jersey, also defending it in the next stage. The fourth stage was also the first one with real cobbles – and now Daniel was able to show something by finishing 4th in the sprint. The next stage saw Mestric in the break – and more importantly the many available KoM points were distributed so well among the break that Askey kept the jersey in the end. Apart from that it was a rather anonymous stage again. The final stage was pan flat, so getting Belohvosciks and Costiou in the break was a fair attempt that lead to nothing nonetheless. In the end Askey was our man of the race, adding a KoM win in a HC race to his palmares.

points:	49
Lewis Askey	37
Maxime Daniel	10
Laurence Pithie	1
Matija Mestric	1

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
25-Jul	29-Jul	Tour d'Andorra	-	GC Top 5; KoM win; 3 Stage Podiums; Stage Top 10; 3rd Teams

Ranaweera finished 12th in the first stage as part of the fourth group, losing some time but staying in the competition for the top 10. Stage 2 saw us chasing the break to make use of Hadis combination of climbing and sprint skill and he indeed won the sprint from the peloton commandingly – too bad there was one escapee still out in front. But 2nd is clearly a good result nonetheless. The next stage saw Pinot active in the break and Ranaweera finishing in 9th with most of the other GC favourites, thus also climbing to 9th in the GC. Our leader climbed even further to 5th in the GC with his fabulous 2nd place in the stage 4 MTT, which also ties our best ever TT result. And stage 5 was the icing on the cake. Pinot was part of the winning break and finished 3rd in the stage. He also got enough points to win the KoM classification. Ranaweera was able to stay with the other favourites and stayed 5th in the GC. In addition we ended 3rd in the team classification. In short: it was another great race for us in Andorra, this is going to be one of our favourite races.

points:	118
Suranga Ranaweera	65
Thibault Pinot	36
Janvier Hadi	13
Arman Garibian	3
Connor Dunne	1

Start	End	Race	Cat
13-Sep		GP Plouay	C2

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Alex Baudin	65	66	66	66	68	66	67	63	63	66	67	65	63	23
	Kristians Belohvosciks	70	60	62	67	69	71	65	62	59	67	69	65	72	22
	Welay Hagos Berhe	67	71	69	69	71	68	71	60	61	66	67	64	67	23
	Ewen Costiou	71	66	72	68	71	68	63	66	70	72	68	69	69	22
	Olivier Le Gac	70	69	77	60	73	74	71	52	64	69	74	73	60	31
	Tobias Lund Andresen	66	56	60	60	68	68	62	60	71	73	57	63	59	22
	Daniel Paulus	69	74	77	64	71	68	73	56	62	71	73	67	64	31
	Laurence Pithie	72	66	72	71	73	73	70	73	72	73	67	72	69	22

It’s our last C2 race of the season and it’s a home race. We send a combination of youngsters and our two C2 puncheurs Le Gac and Paulus. We clearly hope for a hard race coming without a sprinter.

Start	End	Race	Cat
15-Sep	20-Sep	Balkans International	PTHC

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Alan Boileau	67	73	75	65	68	70	72	62	67	74	66	67	64	25
	Joris Delbove	65	74	72	58	67	72	74	62	60	69	71	72	58	24
	Antti-Jussi Juntunen	68	63	72	61	67	70	65	61	68	71	68	61	60	25
	Paul Lapeira	73	69	71	61	70	70	67	71	72	73	75	70	64	24
	Olivier Le Gac	70	69	77	60	73	74	71	52	64	69	74	73	60	31
	Rui Oliveira	70	67	76	70	77	72	72	66	75	78	65	67	71	28
	Aurelien Paret-Peintre	72	76	77	72	73	75	73	63	72	74	72	70	72	28
	Daniel Paulus	69	74	77	64	71	68	73	56	62	71	73	67	64	31

Six days of racing, five days of hills and it’s our PTHC goal race. No wonder we send our entire hill squad here to support APP. With probably the entirety of PT and PCT puncheurs here to achieve the targeted top 5 is highly improbable. But APPs consistency in this kind of race at least gives us some hope.

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
01-Aug	05-Aug	Tour de Vineyards	-	GC Top 5; Stage Top 5s; Stage Top 10

The race began with two flat stages, so it was all about Hodeg there. He finished 6th in stage 1 and 5th in stage 2. The next stage was the first one for the GC riders who had to battle it out in the mountains. Ranaweera did okay in 4th, but he would have needed even more to stay in the fight for the podium. Stage 4 went to the break, so Hodegs 5th place in the sprint of the field was only a 11th place in total. We finished shared 9th in the final TTT and though some GC shuffling Ranaweera stayed in 4th in the end. We had some minor depth scoring as well, making this another good race for us.

points:	74
Suranga Ranaweera	63
Alvaro Hodeg	6
Kevin Vauquelin	3
Laurence Pithie	2

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
07-Aug	11-Aug	Post Danmark Rundt	-

Hodeg was badly positioned in stage 1, only finishing 14th as result. He did even worse with 18th in stage 2, but our stagiaire Baudin showed himself in the break once again. In the next stage Delbove was our man in the break and it was a successful one! He finished 7th in the end which is his best career result so far. We missed the break in stage 4 and Hodeg finished even worse than in the previous sprints, leaving us with only the ITT to go. We don’t have any specialists for the fight against the clock, but Hodeg still managed to stay in 40th in the GC, so we leave Denmark with two handful of points.

points:	10
Alvaro Hodeg	5
Joris Delbove	4
Alex Baudin	1

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
11-Aug		GP Kigali	-	Top 10; Top 25s

Daniel was attentive the whole race (and apparently had some good support long into the race) and finished 9th in the end which is okay given the hilly finish, though finishing last of his group always sets the question if even more would have been possible. The depth was good too with Oliveira in 17th, Pithie in 25th, Dunne in 28th, Louvel in 35th and Mestric in 38th, although the latter three didn’t get points out of the race. But it gives us hope for next season if we manage to gather an actual captain to profit from this supporting cast.

points:	38
Maxime Daniel	31
Rui Oliveira	6
Laurence Pithie	1

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
22-Aug		Milano - Torino	-	Top 25

We hoped for a top 10 here, but APP had one of his worse days this season and came in 14th after being badly positioned in the hilly final.

points:	12
Aurelien Paret-Peintre	12

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
22-Aug		GP Lugano	Top 5	Top 10

It was a tense race and Oliveira was attentive all the time, but he also had to do some chasing by himself in the finale. And though he finished a decent 7th in the final sprint nonetheless this could have been the small bit of work which made us miss yet another team goal by just a small margin.

points:	50
Rui Oliveira	45
Alan Boileau	5

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
13-Sep		GP Plouay	-	-

Paulus was our man in the break and finished in one of the first groups in the end alongside Pithie and Le Gac, though 28th to 30th place resulted in our first zero-pointer since the season opener in Down Under.

points:

0

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
15-Sep	20-Sep	Balkans International	Top 5	GC Top 25; Stage Top 10

We had no one in the first break of the race, missing out on some easy KoM points, and also didn’t contest the stage win. At least Oliveira showed our jersey by getting some bonus seconds in the intermediate sprints. That was about all we saw of our team in the first three stages, at least APP was able to stay at around 15th place in the GC. Juntunen was our first rider in a break in stage 4, but he vanished through the stage and that was that. Le Gac’s day in the break was a bit longer as they were only caught in the sprint and he still finished in 15th. But Oliveira did even better in 8th. APP finished the final stage in 15th which also was his final position in the GC. We missed our team goal, but it’s about where he sat in the pecking order, so nothing to complain about here.

points:	48
Aurelien Paret-Peintre	35
Daniel Paulus	6
Rui Oliveira	3
Olivier Le Gac	2
Alan Boileau	2

Start	End	Race	Cat
01-Oct	06-Oct	Tour of Japan	HC

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Welay Hagos Berhe	67	71	69	69	71	68	71	60	61	66	67	64	67	23
	Clement Chevrier	65	75	74	57	69	69	69	50	60	67	77	60	57	32
	Joris Delbove	65	74	72	58	67	72	74	62	60	69	71	72	58	24
	Arman Garibian	69	74	70	71	72	73	76	55	60	70	66	70	71	24
	Janvier Hadi	68	74	72	74	73	70	71	61	74	71	68	69	74	32
	Thibaut Pinot	70	78	72	63	73	76	70	56	60	66	70	65	63	34
	Suranga Ranaweera	67	80	73	76	75	75	74	52	58	65	57	69	73	29
	Kevin Vauquelin	68	73	67	72	68	72	70	58	68	68	71	70	71	23

The MTT makes it clear this is a race for Ranaweera. We send a bunch of climbers and youngsters to support him in the hills and fight for the breaks.

Start	End	Race	Cat
01-Oct		Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal	PTHC

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Lewis Askey	67	63	70	58	69	65	69	72	66	73	60	67	67	23
	Alan Boileau	67	73	75	65	68	70	72	62	67	74	66	67	64	25
	Antti-Jussi Juntunen	68	63	72	61	67	70	65	61	68	71	68	61	60	25
	Paul Lapeira	73	69	71	61	70	70	67	71	72	73	75	70	64	24
	Olivier Le Gac	70	69	77	60	73	74	71	52	64	69	74	73	60	31
	Matija Mestric	73	63	70	63	69	70	68	76	55	65	71	75	67	27
	Rui Oliveira	70	67	76	70	77	72	72	66	75	78	65	67	71	28
	Daniel Paulus	69	74	77	64	71	68	73	56	62	71	73	67	64	31

Oliveira is our captain in this PTHC classic. If he’s able to stay in the front group till the end he’s a viable option, if not this will be a low-scoring race for us.

Start	End	Race	Cat
04-Oct		Paris Tours	C1

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Kristians Belohvosciks	70	60	62	67	69	71	65	62	59	67	69	65	72	22
	Ewen Costiou	71	66	72	68	71	68	63	66	70	72	68	69	69	22
	Maxime Daniel	72	55	68	55	75	75	72	79	75	71	68	73	63	33
	Alvaro Hodeg	72	53	65	67	69	74	70	51	79	78	53	64	73	28
	Paul Lapeira	73	69	71	61	70	70	67	71	72	73	75	70	64	24
	Matis Louvel	75	64	71	71	73	76	69	74	67	67	67	66	71	25
	Tobias Lund Andresen	66	56	60	60	68	68	62	60	71	73	57	63	59	22
	Laurence Pithie	72	66	72	71	73	73	70	73	72	73	67	72	69	22

This is our last French race of the season and that’s the main reason we come here. We send Hodeg for the sprint and Daniel for whatever freak events could let him shine in his final race of the season. Apart from those two, it’s all about gaining XP – and that’s probably not the worst way of getting someone into the break.

Start	End	Race	Cat
09-Oct		Japan Cup	PTHC

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Alan Boileau	67	73	75	65	68	70	72	62	67	74	66	67	64	25
	Arman Garibian	69	74	70	71	72	73	76	55	60	70	66	70	71	24
	Paul Lapeira	73	69	71	61	70	70	67	71	72	73	75	70	64	24
	Olivier Le Gac	70	69	77	60	73	74	71	52	64	69	74	73	60	31
	Rui Oliveira	70	67	76	70	77	72	72	66	75	78	65	67	71	28
	Aurelien Paret-Peintre	72	76	77	72	73	75	73	63	72	74	72	70	72	28
	Daniel Paulus	69	74	77	64	71	68	73	56	62	71	73	67	64	31
	Kevin Vauquelin	68	73	67	72	68	72	70	58	68	68	71	70	71	23

The second PTHC classic of the month is a hilly one, too. This time APP is there, too.

Start	End	Race	Cat
12-Oct	16-Oct	Tour of Britain	C1

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Welay Hagos Berhe	67	71	69	69	71	68	71	60	61	66	67	64	67	23
	Alan Boileau	67	73	75	65	68	70	72	62	67	74	66	67	64	25
	Arman Garibian	69	74	70	71	72	73	76	55	60	70	66	70	71	24
	Paul Lapeira	73	69	71	61	70	70	67	71	72	73	75	70	64	24
	Olivier Le Gac	70	69	77	60	73	74	71	52	64	69	74	73	60	31
	Rui Oliveira	70	67	76	70	77	72	72	66	75	78	65	67	71	28
	Aurelien Paret-Peintre	72	76	77	72	73	75	73	63	72	74	72	70	72	28
	Daniel Paulus	69	74	77	64	71	68	73	56	62	71	73	67	64	31

This is our last goal race of the season and it’s a win goal. We probably won’t achieve that, but we send Oliveira and APP and all the support we have for the hills to get as near to the goal as possible.

Start	End	Race	Cat
18-Oct		Giro dell'Emilia	HC

		FL	MO	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	Age
	Alan Boileau	67	73	75	65	68	70	72	62	67	74	66	67	64	25
	Arman Garibian	69	74	70	71	72	73	76	55	60	70	66	70	71	24
	Paul Lapeira	73	69	71	61	70	70	67	71	72	73	75	70	64	24
	Olivier Le Gac	70	69	77	60	73	74	71	52	64	69	74	73	60	31
	Rui Oliveira	70	67	76	70	77	72	72	66	75	78	65	67	71	28
	Aurelien Paret-Peintre	72	76	77	72	73	75	73	63	72	74	72	70	72	28
	Daniel Paulus	69	74	77	64	71	68	73	56	62	71	73	67	64	31
	Kevin Vauquelin	68	73	67	72	68	72	70	58	68	68	71	70	71	23

It’s the traditional season final in the hills, so it’s no surprise we send our hill squad again. With the uphill finish APP should be our leader here.

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
01-Oct	06-Oct	Tour of Japan	-	GC Top 5; Stage Top 5; Stage Top 10

The initial prologue saw Ranaweera among the better GC riders, so he had a good start into the race. Stage 2 was one for the sprinters and Hadi showed himself there with a 9th place. We weren’t even mentioned in the stage 3 and 4 reports, which also meant Ranaweera didn’t lose any time there. He managed to finish 4th in the GC-defining MTT, resulting in a 5th place in the GC. After another anonymous stage this was also his final result.

points:	91
Suranga Ranaweera	90
Arman Garibian	1

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
01-Oct		Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal	-	Top 25

We got no one into the break and Oliveira was mostly anonymous. He managed to finish 20th nonetheless, which is still fine on this parcours and against such a strong opposition.

points:	12
Rui Oliveira	12

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
04-Oct		Paris Tours	-	Podium

Belohvosciks was once again our man in the break and so we didn’t have to work in the chase. In the end Hodeg was well positioned when the sprint began, but when he sat down in around 12th place with 200m to go the race seemed over for us. But somehow he still rocketed in front to finish in a whopping 2nd place in a home race which clearly made us (and the sponsors) very happy.

points:	56
Alvaro Hodeg	56

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
09-Oct		Japan Cup	-	Top 5

We didn’t have the highest expectations here, but the race started well with Vauquelin in the break. This was fruitless in the end, but it allowed us to bring APP into a good position for the finale. And he was attentive and able to follow the decisive attack. And though he wasn’t able to sprint in the end he came in 5th. That’s a huge result in this field!

points:	80
Aurelien Paret-Peintre	80

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
12-Oct	16-Oct	Tour of Britain	Win	GC Top 10; Stage Top 10s; 3rd Teams

The race began with two stages for the sprinters where Oliveira wasn’t able to compete for the top 10. APP finished with the lead groups in the first two hilly stages, but only got an 8th place as a stage result. He was among the remaining 9 riders fighting for the GC win in the final stage nonetheless. He finished 8th in the final stage too and ended 9th in the GC which isn’t bad but also feels like the lower end of what could have been possible. As a side effect we got a podium in the team classification.

points:	42
Aurelien Paret-Peintre	32
Daniel Paulus	4
Alan Boileau	3
Olivier Le Gac	1
Rui Oliveira	1
Arman Garibian	1

Start	End	Race	team goal	results
18-Oct		Giro dell'Emilia	-	Top 10

We had no one in the break once again, but at least APP made up for it by attacking with 40 km to go. This attack lead nowhere in the end, but was nice to look at. Even more so after he was able to still finish 6th in the final uphill sprint, ending our season with another good but not shiny result.

points:	53
Aurelien Paret-Peintre	53

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Lewis Askey	33	207	2,3	4

We thought there wouldn’t be much to see from Lewis after his surprising classics win in January. And he really wasn’t seen that often, but once again showed his ability to make the best of his opportunities by adding the KoM win in the Benelux Challenge to his palmares – from a single breakaway appearance. Let’s hope he continues to show this efficiency in the next years too.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Alex Baudin	15	10	1	3

Alex ended his second stint as a stagiaire with 10 points, thus outscoring quite some riders with a lot more RDs and a much higher wage. It probably won’t be enough to secure him a full contract as we don’t see enough potential in him to justify the costs of another three years of development.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Kristians Belohvosciks	84	5	n/a	10

Kristians only scored 5 points, but he was our most active rider in breaks this season, following in the footsteps of his future teammate and our former loanee Rokas Kmieliauskas.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Welay Hagos Berhe	72	0	0	4

Welay was rather anonymous all season, but he’s still some development to do and we’ll happily give him the opportunity to make his final step next season – or find an African team to take care of him instead.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Alan Boileau	74	16	0,32	0

Alan has finally finished his development and so we expect him to step up in activity and scoring next season.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Clement Chevrier	37	3	0,06	1

Clement wasn’t able to show himself in the way he did last season. Given his incoming first decline our ways will split for good.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Ewen Costiou	77	2	0,04	3

Ewen did what we expected from him: he gained two levels and showed himself occasionally in breaks and more often chasing at the front of the peloton.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Maxime Daniel	34	386	0,99	0

Maxime wasn’t able to keep up with his strong first half of the season. With his high wage and second decline there’s not much hope we’ll find a common ground in the renewals.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Joris Delbove	88	5	0,1	3

Joris has finished his development, so from next season on we expect him to fight for breaks and KoM points more regularly.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Conor Dunne	31	16	0,27	2

Conor is a Swiss-Army-knife, but he suffered from our big squad and the many RDs needed for our talents to gather XP. So he couldn’t be used as often as we would have liked. Add his incoming first decline and FA seems a realistic option for him.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Arman Garibian	90	25	0,5	1

Arman was already a minor depth scorer in his final developing season and we hope he’ll even improve this in the years to come as a valuable stage racing domestique.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Janvier Hadi	58	50	0,77	0

Janvier added some good results in the second half of the season and he would clearly be re-signed if it wasn’t for his first decline. So, much will depend on how renewals go with other riders.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Alvaro Hodeg	52	213	2,37	0

Alvaro really was a steal as he has the best PpK value of the team and finally added some classics results to his good stage results. If his wage demands are reasonable there’s no need not to re-sign him.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Antti-Jussi Juntunen	47	0	0	3

Antti-Jussi showed himself in some breaks although there weren’t any points in it for him. He’s another one of those riders whose future in and after renewals isn’t clear yet.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Paul Lapeira	103	8	0,05	2

Paul was our most active riders in terms of RDs. He couldn’t get much out of it for himself and was even outscored by our stagiaire. But we know his time will come, probably already next season in some C2 cobbles races, so don’t hope to see him in FA any time soon.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Olivier Le Gac	55	18	0,28	3

Olivier was part of APPs support cast most of the season and co-captain in our C2 races. He couldn’t really convince us there and given the need of slimming the squad he’s on the edge of being released – as quite some others are too.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Matis Louvel	87	59	1,18	4

Matis didn’t add some points in the second half of the season, but with his development finally finished he’ll be one of our cobbles lieutenants next season (if we’re able to actually get him a captain) – and maybe even more once he’s eligible for training. And a race like Arenberg could already suit him next season.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Tobias Lund Andresen	82	0	0	1

Tobias wasn’t seen in breaks often, but he worked at the front of the peloton some times – something he won’t be asked for once maxed by his actual team.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Matija Mestric	32	21	0,38	2

Matija was another victim of the few RDs we had left for non-developing domestiques. We plan with him for our future cobbles squad (and as a potential C2 leader) nonetheless – as long as none of the Balkan based teams makes an offer we can’t refuse.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Rui Oliveira	48	188	1,71	0

Rui delivered as our hilly sprinter and occasional hills leader when APP couldn’t take this role. We don’t see why we shouldn’t re-sign him if he doesn’t get gready.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Aurelien Paret-Peintre	51	521	1,93	0

He is just the personification of consistency in the hilly classics and stage races, mostly across all race categories. He missed out on being our best scorer by 3 points, but he’ll lead our hills squad in the next years too – and if we find some money he’ll also finally get the training he deserves.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Daniel Paulus	59	32	0,53	1

Daniel couldn’t really make use of his opportunities as our captain in C2 races, but given his skillset and hopefully still low wage he’ll still be good value for his money as APPs lieutenant.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Thibaut Pinot	62	100	1,18	7

Thibault used his probably last chance at the Tour to show himself in the breaks on the biggest stage one last time. He also added a KoM win in Andorra to show he was still a valuable rider in PCT after two declines.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Laurence Pithie	74	23	0,12	0

Laurence suffered the same fate as most of our cobblers by just missing the scoring opportunities in the second half of the season. But that won’t be a problem in his future and we’re not that happy we’ll be able to follow his development close as he’ll be a PCT rival next season.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Suranga Ranaweera	52	524	2,23	1

Suranga fully met our expectations by being a reliable and consistent scorer in the stage races while still having a rather low wage. He missed the big result, but not by that much, so maybe he’s even a training option if someone throws enough money at us.

rider	RDs	points	Ppk	BotDs
Kevin Vauquelin	87	13	0,12	4

Kevin wasn’t a big factor this season, but this will already change next season as he’ll already be a depth scorer and U25 competitor after his penultimate step of development.