Booker wrote:
Hmmm, so close yet so far, even after the ToA. Others are just too strong. Looks like another season in the PCT for Kulczyk.
We're already making plans.
"Three"
Shhhh
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [PT] Xero Racing
It was a long, hard fight. Hard to watch at least. Seems pretty easy for my riders giving zero effort all year, but they'll get their's when it's contract time.
Lierse vs. Netia is a great battle, but it's tough to watch honestly. Both of them belong in this division, and it's sad to know one of them is going down at the end, especially with what might be lost along the way.
At this point, it would take an absolute miracle for us to survive. I can't expect a single point from Maroc. AKA and Garby can't even handle C1, let alone PTHC. That means Juul-Jensen would have to pull a win or podium out of his ass for us to have a shot. Maybe he could have last year, but not anymore.
Thanks for the update! Can't believe there's only a few races left.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
ToA delivered around the points we expected to prime our rise above the relegation line. In reality on a ppRD basis (if calculated fully) we were never below the line, and lets hope that is still the case at the end of the season!
Close battles for promotion spots, and of course key relegation race (which we ourselves are not yet fully safe from). Don't want to express any preferences in either competition, as all managers involved pretty much universally are a big part of the MG, so wish them all well.
Looking at the individual rider list, it is obvious that for WCC at any rate, our points return from our 'sprinters' has been a real drag on our production of ranking points. CT promotion season heroes Boily and Harrison have also failed to deliver the goods this year in PCT, and hence fall far short in terms of pp/Wage. The gamble of wages required to secure Berhane in the crazy pre-season FA merry-go-round has paid of though, and Bush has had a strong season, along with most of our domestiques chipping in decent points. For all frustrations with him at times for complete no-show outcomes, Betancourt has also done OK when season taken as a whole, and he still has a couple of racing opportunities left in which to get towards 300 points pre-season expectation.
Just one last push lads; another couple of hundred ranking points should see us well clear of relegation. Still San Sebastien, Milano-Torino, Maroc and Japan Cup left for us I think so that is 15 RDs to continue to harvest key ranking points!
Amazing to see my team on provisional 4th place after so many disappointing results during whole season! With only Milano - Torino left I´m pretty sure we´re gonna drop to 7th - 8th place though.
Still several thrilling battles for both promotion/relegation to come yet!
Some great performances have catapulted Kraftwerk up the table. Flugel still has some race days left so our goal of a top 10 is a real possibility, who’d have thought!
Relegation was always expected this season, even had Eastman won ToA. The team is building itself for a good CT season next year, with young talents developing for the long term project this team and sponsors always intended.
Well we're going down and it's looked that way for most of the season but we've got a solid base of youth to work with going into the CT and if we add some strong CT riders then we could be in for a quick bounce back!
