The HC ranked Kuurne Brussel Kuurne saw Volvo topping the scoring followed by Andorra and Lierse. The only other cobbles, PTHC E3 Prijs once again had Andorra high up the ladder with Rakuten following here.
For mountains, the Apex Mountain Classic was the only event. UBS won with Schelling and are followed by Kulczyk and Sauber, who obviously have to start scoring.
And they continued to do so in the time trial heavy Jelajah SKL where they went highest with 243 points. Once more Kulczyk in 2nd and Xero at 3rd.
ISA Hexacta challenged the PT the most in Strade Bianche but also Philips or Delvaux was decent while Uppsala saw a great race by the home team Volvo, who scored 221 points. Coming closest was Carrefour followed by cycleYorkshire and Rakuten as only other decent scorers.
The month goes to Volvo with Rakuten and Kulczyk also over 300 points.
Further at the bottom Duolingo not scoring a single point while Swisslion, Desigual, Campari and Kraftwerk also took a month off.
Campari and Swisslion surely not ideal as the former 1-2 might be passed now. Also Kraftwerk will drop a bit.
Team
Apx
Bia
Upp
E3
Jel
KBK
Total
1
Volvo acc. by Spotify
0
0
221
0
0
163
384
2
Rakuten Pro Cycling
0
0
143
80
89
18
330
3
Kulczyk - Alitalia
56
0
0
43
200
26
325
4
Sauber Petronas Racing
36
0
0
0
243
0
279
5
Andorra Cycling Project
4
0
0
138
0
112
254
6
Carrefour - ESPN
0
0
195
36
0
0
231
7
cycleYorkshire
0
20
158
0
0
49
227
8
Delvaux
0
49
11
39
40
45
184
9
Team UBS
80
0
0
0
0
70
150
10
Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
0
20
0
42
0
87
149
11
ISA - Hexacta
0
81
0
0
0
66
147
12
Xero Racing
0
0
0
0
105
5
110
13
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
29
44
26
0
0
0
99
14
Carlsberg - Danske Bank
16
0
0
0
2
75
93
15
Philips
0
67
12
4
0
0
83
16
Iberia - Team Degenkolb
0
0
0
0
80
0
80
17
Valio - Viking Genetics
0
18
45
0
0
15
78
18
ENI - MOL
10
41
0
2
17
0
70
19
Minions
0
0
0
0
0
58
58
20
Berg Cycles
28
0
16
0
0
0
44
21
Team Europcar
0
41
0
0
0
0
41
22
Campari/Asahi development
3
0
0
0
0
23
26
23
Kraftwerk Man Machine
0
0
26
0
0
0
26
24
Desigual
24
0
0
0
0
0
24
25
Swisslion Cycling Team
1
0
1
0
12
0
14
26
Duolingo
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Overall Volvo goes up to into the lead being the most consistent for now. Campari still in 2nd as they had quite a gap and still have. But ISA Hexacta is closing with 150 points only in between.
Rakuten up to 4th with one of the biggest jumps just like Kulczyk from 17th to 7th.
Still ahead Delvaux and Popo4ever with UBS just behind. Couple other teams such as Swisslion, Andorra, Kraftwerk, Iberia or Minions also not far from the promotion area neither.
At the bottom Europcar is passed by Sauber. Xero, Philips and Carrefour below the line as well. Some surprises here surely, who were expected to be further ahead.
Carlsberg and cycleYorkshire just ahead while Duolingo/Desigual get into the danger zone as well slowly.
Individually Pluchkin takes the lead passing Beltran in actually his home race Colombia. Though Beltran had no race day this month and still is only a bit behind.
Tenorio as best other stage racer and Degenkolb as best sprinter remain 3rd and 4th.
Summerhill up to 5th. Just like Bewley in the PT, he goes up with the cobbles starting.
Ahlstrand remains 6th despite a weak home race while Martin, Uran follow as best 2nd tier stage racers.
Stallaert showing his skills on several terrains sees him moving up to 9th ahead of Guarnieri as next sprinter.
Vanbilsen, Vanspeybrouck also moving up with the cobbles while Ferreira had a bit of a weaker run lately.
Things got real very quickly as we are basically nothing without Beltran. That PpRD screams relegation I'm afraid
Bilbao is a dud in stage races so we'll have to wait for some classics for him to have a chance of scoring. Ciolek I still have some hope for despite his latest showing, otherwise relying on the fringe riders to score a few extra points.
Congrats to Viking on a fantastic month and thank you Roturn for the ranking update
Going down but with only KBK that was expected. PPRD looks good for promotion challenge. Uran responsible for nearly half our points is not looking good though
Schelling is really making me happy this season. Our PPRD puts us on track for 3rd, which may or may not be realistic, but at least we should be good enough for a promotion spot.
As I feared, we're artificially high due to a high number of race days thus far. We're consistently scoring points, but we're not consistently scoring big points. Bar Breen, Guarnieri and Hermans, we need improvements across the board.
One perhaps positive thing, it that we're putting behind us a period with lots of races where we've only been six riders. Hopefully we can improve a bit going forward when we're back to full teams.
Volvo looks very strong at the top! Thanks for another update, Roturn!
Still near the bottom. We have race days in hand, but for a variety of reasons, I can't count on that. Just keep pushing for survival. That's all we can do. At least VSB has been holding up pretty well this year.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
Far from dominant but Summerhill is keeping us well well above the relegation line. 10th after March is very good as we also don't have too many Race days, Machado hasn't been good in all races but didn't have March racing I think, I'm hoping he keeps the points coming in, Dowsett isn't thinking of them.
With our two strongest specialisations not really being ridden this month (apart from Jelajah although not really Kinoshita's main terrain) we moved up quite a bit and were really solid everywhere. A strong cobbles weekend with Sibilla and the Kuroedas and our TT squad really put on a consistent show. With still many opportunities for Kinoshita and Shikai, I am quite happy with how things are going so far. We usually make a push at the end of the season and already projected for 5th, so hopefully we can hold on and even improve more.
