Was a very successful race, one can hope to bring this squad into PT in a year or two Kireva has done amazing and so did the rest of the team, even big man Bakari made it through!
Summerhill did amazing taking a stage, finishing on the podium and taking the points classification, almost taking KOM, congratz Grieg on the great race Wisniowski had and thanks Marco for all the reports
Yellow Jersey wrote:
Was a very successful race, one can hope to bring this squad into PT in a year or two Kireva has done amazing and so did the rest of the team, even big man Bakari made it through!
Summerhill did amazing taking a stage, finishing on the podium and taking the points classification, almost taking KOM, congratz Grieg on the great race Wisniowski had and thanks Marco for all the reports
Very well done by Walsleben only dropping one spot in the GC. Obviously he was also lucky looking at the gaps behind him. Hoping for a boring and uneventful final stage now, which could make this a great race for us, looking at the team we brought here
tastasol wrote:
I want to say thanks, but still one stage to go
Yellow Jersey wrote:
Was a very successful race, one can hope to bring this squad into PT in a year or two Kireva has done amazing and so did the rest of the team, even big man Bakari made it through!
Summerhill did amazing taking a stage, finishing on the podium and taking the points classification, almost taking KOM, congratz Grieg on the great race Wisniowski had and thanks Marco for all the reports
A great race for us. Not only a GC win for Wisniowski, but also good riding from the team, especially Pedersen. I've always had a soft spot for ToNE and ever since Wisniowski came to the team it's been a big goal, so it's great to be able to take the win.
Congrats on the podium, YJ, a great, attacking race by Summerhill. Also quite a good race from Generali, really showing their versatile depth.
Great GC result for us here with Walsleben overperforming.
Thank you a lot for the reports, Marco, and also the you’ve posted them at.I’m on holiday and only with my phone considering wifi, and it has been nice checking for reports and results both during the day and evening.
Congratulations on the win, tastasol. Wisniowski is such a beast!
Not a terrible result for us as we outscored SPAR, but Repsol did well enough to be a real worry in the remaining races. AI really let us down, with McCarthy being very passive, breaks being chased down whenever we put a rider in them (and then not joining the next break) and Lander costing himself a stage win by deciding to leadout Zhupa
Thanks for the reports Marco, and congrats to tastasol!
jph27 wrote:
Not a terrible result for us as we outscored SPAR, but Repsol did well enough to be a real worry in the remaining races. AI really let us down, with McCarthy being very passive, breaks being chased down whenever we put a rider in them (and then not joining the next break) and Lander costing himself a stage win by deciding to leadout Zhupa
Thanks for the reports Marco, and congrats to tastasol!
Not sure how a stage win and a Top13 in GC gives us any shot at staying up when in the last ranking we were really bad and didn't race Portugal or Balkan
jph27 wrote:
Not a terrible result for us as we outscored SPAR, but Repsol did well enough to be a real worry in the remaining races. AI really let us down, with McCarthy being very passive, breaks being chased down whenever we put a rider in them (and then not joining the next break) and Lander costing himself a stage win by deciding to leadout Zhupa
Thanks for the reports Marco, and congrats to tastasol!
Not sure how a stage win and a Top13 in GC gives us any shot at staying up when in the last ranking we were really bad and didn't race Portugal or Balkan
You outscored us by about 100 points here, and with the remaining races have a pretty favourable run-in. Zmorka and Gonzalez Salas will outscore Cattaneo and Atkins in Herbiers as well as doing pretty well in Deutschland, and I guess Kudus is probably in Maroc where I'd expect him to outscore Yates and Monsalve combined. That just leaves a couple of PTHC cobbled classics, Moscow and Lombardia, where I can't see us scoring anything much, so you should have the edge.
ToNE. A race that suits Declerq. We all know what that means.
Maybe Cavagna can surprise and show us we should invest into him for this race alone, and I like our TTT setup here.
Well.
That's awkward.
Sorry guys. Dunno how we won that?? And with THOSE gaps??
This does change things indeed. At least we'll get good points from this and the jerseys for a while, at best we get good AI treatment when it matters?
I'm exactly a month late here, but still excited to find out.
Well. Hadi tried, and absolutely deserved keeping the jersey after stage 3.
Declerq and Cavagna didn't try. And Summerhill gets a free pass? Are we sure the AI knew there are cobbles in this race?
Hadi obviously had no business in the overall GC here with his COB stat, but I'm still happy to see him finally do something after the potential his stats suggested to me never came to fruition this season, especially compared to someone like Niu.
Of course there had to come a SECOND point where winning the TT absolutely comes to bite us in the ass: having the yellow jersey on the cobbled stage meant we didn't join the break, and seemingly every. single. good. cobbler. did. And to make things worse, nobody cared to do well from the peloton either.
Absolutely DISGUSTING showing from Declerq and Cavagna here, the great TTT basically directly cost us the chance to score any points in the GC by being heavily restrained on the cobbles stage with yellow in the team. Just our luck.
But at least we still have our young guns! Ganna with a great breakaway attempt, but experience won in the end, he got played hard by the two veterans. Still, a stage podium!
Nothing more to mention here. I guess I have to be happy with a TTT win and a third, but we used to do well in the GC here with Declerq and now we barely take above minimum points, and I might have to reconsider our future in this regard. Declerq is barely worth a 50k domestique anymore, surely not 100k.
