Coming to the CT division. Lots of C1 and C2 events alongside only 1 C2HC actually and a tiny participation in HC even with solid scoring.
HC/C2HC
Euskaltel was the best team in the big races. Not only their Langkawi trip was very successful, but also Slovenie was a smart decision against the better PCT teams. Moser and Nibali were great and also depth with Costa and Borisavljevic worked out for them.
Next to them Netia (Kwiatkowski) scored well just like Bianchi, GCN and NENT.
Total
Lan
Slo
1
Euskaltel - Elior
278
181
97
2
Netia - Vonin
155
155
0
3
Bianchi - Campagnolo
131
131
0
4
GCN ProTeam
123
123
0
5
NENT Racing p/b Hootsuite
122
122
0
6
Glanbia Foods Cycling Project
84
84
0
7
Azteca - NBCSN
82
82
0
8
CYBEX Platinum
53
53
0
9
Tryg Insurance Cycling Team
48
48
0
10
Centovalli - Fiat
46
46
0
11
Adastra - Hell Energy Cycling
42
42
0
12
OMV Petrom-albania.al
41
41
0
13
DK Zalgiris
29
29
0
14
Equinor Pro Cycling
13
13
0
15
McCormick Pro Cycling
12
12
0
16
BNZ Cycling Team
11
11
0
17
Eddie Stobart
9
9
0
C1
Scoring against PCT teams is not always easy and despite quite a lot of C1 races, scoring is rather small here. Azteca with lots of C1 race days only scored 88 points in total to be the CT`s best here.
McCormick though had a good Ras Tailteann with 85 points making their trip worth it.
NENT, Tryg, Bianchi, Netia all scored decent in total.
Total
GW
Ras
Cat
Sou
KBC
Roma
Sam
1
Azteca - NBCSN
88
6
0
51
0
3
28
0
2
McCormick Pro Cycling
85
0
85
0
0
0
0
0
3
NENT Racing p/b Hootsuite
81
8
7
0
0
42
0
24
4
Tryg Insurance Cycling Team
67
10
0
0
25
0
16
16
5
Bianchi - Campagnolo
63
0
7
0
14
0
42
0
6
Netia - Vonin
52
14
0
0
0
0
26
12
7
Adastra - Hell Energy Cycling
41
0
0
41
0
0
0
0
8
Euskaltel - Elior
33
0
0
0
33
0
0
0
9
BNZ Cycling Team
29
0
6
0
23
0
0
0
10
DK Zalgiris
29
0
0
29
0
0
0
0
11
GCN ProTeam
21
0
21
0
0
0
0
0
12
CYBEX Platinum
17
0
17
0
0
0
0
0
13
Glanbia Foods Cycling Project
10
0
9
0
1
0
0
0
14
Eddie Stobart
3
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
15
OMV Petrom-albania.al
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
16
Equinor Pro Cycling
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
17
Centovalli - Fiat
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
C2
C2 had more points on offer this period with only 5 races. Sprinters in Juarez, allrounders in HongKong, cobblers in Herning and Viana do Castelo and puncheurs in Gisborne.
NENT Racing participated in all, scored in all, top the ranking. Main points are coming by Boivin, who surprised in Juarez against stronger sprinters and Van Keirsbulck in the cobbles.
Euskaltel also scored well here with Moser in Juarez and Nibali in HongKong. Clearly their two top riders so far, which is needed as Costa is not having his best season.
GCN, Netia, Equinor the only other teams with 100+ scorings.
Total
Her
Via
Gis
HKG
Jua
1
NENT Racing p/b Hootsuite
241
23
85
20
25
88
2
Euskaltel - Elior
175
0
0
12
88
75
3
GCN ProTeam
136
27
0
0
53
56
4
Netia - Vonin
130
10
47
0
46
27
5
Equinor Pro Cycling
112
0
0
32
14
66
6
OMV Petrom-albania.al
94
13
0
1
27
53
7
Adastra - Hell Energy Cycling
91
0
7
0
27
57
8
CYBEX Platinum
90
0
0
0
89
1
9
Azteca - NBCSN
88
20
0
45
0
23
10
BNZ Cycling Team
70
0
0
17
31
22
11
Bianchi - Campagnolo
48
12
4
0
0
32
12
McCormick Pro Cycling
42
32
1
0
0
9
13
Tryg Insurance Cycling Team
34
13
1
20
0
0
14
Eddie Stobart
32
0
0
32
0
0
15
Centovalli - Fiat
31
0
0
6
25
0
16
Glanbia Foods Cycling Project
30
0
0
0
0
30
17
DK Zalgiris
28
4
0
24
0
0
Total Ranking
NENT was 2nd, now leads the CT due to high consistency while Euskaltel climb from bottom to top being new 2nd.
GCN and Azteca also being consistent remaining in the "promotion" area while Netia climbs into this zone and also Bianchi had a better 2nd period.
McCormick on the other hand couldn`t continue as strong as in January and drop from 1st to 6th.
The middle is really close and even though the top6 is having a small gap, the way down to 16th is then not far.
Only Eddie Stobart in the last position really struggling so far and in huge need to improve fast.
Holloway remains in the top spot after his early TdU success and adding points in Ras Tailteann. Pinot also remains consistent eventhough not as strong as in recent years maybe while Kwiatkowski made a bigjump with two good races. Also Nibali up to 5th with a good start late in his career.
Faiers remains up there as well but hasn`t raced a lot.
Moser so far best sprinter next to Holloway, Intxausti still strong but with less results and then Boivin and Krieger, who both are having pretty good seasons so far and beating Mohs so far point wise. Later only 5th best scoring sprinter at the moment despite high use of race days.
Maes and Van Keirsbulck then close for the fight of the best cobbler and Edmondson as best pure puncheur so far.
Some high quality riders still hide themselves a bit such as Chaves, Kiserlovski, Kasperkiewicz and so on but they can still improve and/or have not used a lot of race days.
Despite a few average races, we've scored very well in quite a few races. Of course we're very happy to be sitting in 2nd but there is still a lot of work to do.
Nibali has overperformed relative to what would have been expected of him so I hope he keeps that going! Moser the best of the sprinters is somewhat surprising as he has been rather inconsistent. Costa, as mentioned, has been very average so far this season.
All in all, a very good month for us in the points scoring department. However, there is still much room for improvement and we really need to keep our PPRD up which is proving to be difficult for us and for others in C1 races.
SotD wrote:
Isn't the amateur teams normally part of this ranking?
Something I have to work on next.
Rankings are compiled different this season, which means new formulas needed.
At the moment the amateurs are not in the formulas yet but gong to edit this asap.
Slow month for Azteca, again with very little racing from Eastman or Chaves, a handful of races from our cobbled squad to try and scratch out a few points.
On the surface it doesn't look good - dropped from 1st to 6th and low pts per RD per Tamijo.
But Holloway days are the only ones that matter for us and he is running about 25 pts/day. If we he keeps that up the Ulriksen boys will be very happy managers at the end of the year. Nice to get some love from Manamalage in Denmark as well.
First update for the amateur class and they feature the first official PpRD/projected rankings, which are also finished for the other divisions, so #3 updates will have those as in recent years.
The amateurs are between 9 and 26 race days so far and one team really did shine so far.
La Vie Clair is the first to top 100 points while most are not even at their half. Only Signal Iduna and Kofola are 50+ while VIP Mobile is on tiny 1 scoring point, to be fair on them on smallest amount of race days so far.
Checking for the valuable races so far.
Vuelta al Tachira had quite a few. 28 for Signal Iduna, 14 WCC and 12 for Kofola for example. 5 only for La Vie Claire actually.
TdU saw the home team Jayco scoring 10 points, which is decent really, mainly in the KoM hunt.
Viana Castelo had 26 for Festina and 12 for Adriatic, similar scorings for La Vie Claire in Hong Kong, Evonik in De Panne, Kofola/Adriatic in Roma Maxima and various teams in Juarez.
So where are the huge LVC points are coming from?
Actually from Catalunya. 75 points is CT or even PCT worthy really alongside 33 for Repsol!
Twice a 2nd in stage results, another 3 top5 performances, being runner up in the KoM competition and 15th in the GC is huge for an amateur team.
Huge Catalunya for LVC, but we still look like contenders with some breakaway magic and depth Going to be tough though as our schedule isn't great really and already a fair few RDs!
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Going to be tough though as our schedule isn't great really and already a fair few RDs!
