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[CT] Repsol - Honda 2017 | Rider Evaluation. Leaders
Aquarius97
@Abhishek Just seeing this now... Rolling Eyes Well, at the moment it doesn't look like we'll have a lucky race this month, and your current run of great results doesn't help us at all :lol:
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TEAM MANAGER AWARDED
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Today we have received the great news that the team manager of Repsol - Honda, Aquarius97 has been awarded the trophy as the Best New Manager of the Year!

This was made through a poll which involved other 32 MG managers - at least it's what i suppouse Pfft - and our manager was voted by 13 managers, 4 more times than AbhishekLFC, the manager of Phlips - Continental, and 6 more times than Tamijo, manager of Campari - Super Dry.

Our manager was also voted as the Third Best Reporter of the Year, with less than half of the winner's votes, tsmoha. From this HQ we want to congratulate him for the award!

As a consolation price, we can officialy anounce that our manager has been ̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶c̶e̶d̶ chosen to colaborate with France TV Sports during the coverage of this year's Tour de France! See you in France during the month of July Wink

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Shonak
Congratulations to your award, well deserved! And I'm sure the reportert of the year award will be coming around one da. Happy to see at the sidelines of le Tour. Smile
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Aquarius97
Shonak wrote:
And I'm sure the reportert of the year award will be coming around one da.


No pressure... Pfft

Thanks! And I hope that my reports will be up to a race like Le Tour, with the extra amount of time i've put onto them Wink
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tsmoha
A much deserved award. Just like the other nominees, we have a classy addition to the MG world here! Congratulations and also great to see you covering the TdF. Quite an honour to be selected a GT reporter in your first season Smile I will second Shonak's comment and keep the pressure up Pfft

Thanks for the congratulations on my award, btw!
 
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Thanks for your words tsmoha! Grin
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Aquarius97
Spoiler
You might be stranged if you read that the sixth place is a promotion guaranteed spot, but it's obvious that Project: Africa is disbanding, so there's an extra spot in PCT next season.
MAY REVIEW
We entered the month of May with a huge margin to seventh team in the rankings, 123 points over Azteca,and while we are still on promotion places, and we'll finish the month in promotion places for sure, this has been an awful month for Repsol - Honda.

We have only scored 34 points in 11 RD this month, although in our May Preview given our "realistic" race predictions, we actually overperformed overally in the month. Really bad considering that 15 teams! have out-scored us in this month, including the rest of Top13 in CT Rankings
WINDHOEK ITT
In a race dominated by cycleYorkshire, taking the win and having 3 riders in the top4, Morgan Kneisky was again disappointing in a TT this season, as he's yet to finish in the top10 of a timetrial this season, and the 1 point he got for finishing 24th in this race, it's his first in a timetrial race this season
1Andrew TennantcycleYorkshire53'41
2Kai ReusIn-n-Out p/b Carrefour+ 31
3Stelly RobertcycleYorkshire+ 1'02
4Ian StannardcycleYorkshire+ 1'15
5Tony MartinLöbauer Stadtwerke - Etixx+ 1'16
24Morgan KneiskyRepsol - Honda+ 2'15
41Stefano AgostiniRepsol - Honda+ 3'46
43Maximilian BeyerRepsol - Honda+ 5'05
CACAK CLASSIC
From the beggining we knew this wouldn't be a succesfull race, as as we said in the preview we thought that the finish was in flat roads, thus only sending here Gilbert of our hilly trio, with Cunego and Agostini being left at home.
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Robert Power joined the BotD, in what was the first time that a breakaway in a CT race this season didn't bring us points, as the only other previous breakaways in C2(HC) were Valverde in San Cristobal (13th in the finish) and Agostini in Bayern (stage win + GC podium)

Despite Marcato having worked to catch a dangerous move of Roux, Gilbert didn't place himself well before the final 2 kms, and missed out on the winning move (Wyss won for Philips), having to settle for a 11th place. With no other point scorers today, this wasn't a great race, but at least it was an on-par performance by the Belgian
1Marcel WyssPhilips - Continental4h23'53
2David BoilyWorld Cycling Centres.t.
3Arthur VichotKulczyk - DMTEXs.t.
4Johan Esteban ChavesAzteca-NBCSN+ 13
5Jakub KratochvilaIn-n-Out p/b Carrefour+ 40
11Philippe GilbertRepsol - Hondas.t.
33Alejandro ValverdeRepsol - Hondas.t.
43Marco MarcatoRepsol - Hondas.t.
60Morgan KneiskyRepsol - Hondas.t.
85Riccardo StacchiottiRepsol - Honda+ 3'49
89Cristian RodríguezRepsol - Hondas.t.
90Robert PowerRepsol - Hondas.t.
109Nidush Nirantha FernandoRepsol - Honda+5'35
EUSKAL BIZIKLETA
This race could have been actually quite good if it wasn't for a crash involving Gilbert in the last stage, which prevented us from having 3 riders in the top15 in GC.
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Agostini surprised everyone by being just one place short of a top10, finally using his impressive back-ups to perform above his level in a hilly race, while Cunego scored his first points on a hilly race this season after finishing 13th in GC.

We had a rider in the breakaway in stages 1 and 3, with Kneisky and Prado. The Mexican would later crash when being caught by the bunch, while the other positive thing in the race was Roson's podium in the U25 classification

1Andrii BratashcukCampari - Super Dry16h26'43
2Johan Esteban ChavesAzteca-NBCSN+ 13
3Anthony RouxXero Racing p/b Octagon+ 38
4David BoilyWorld Cycling Centre+ 1'04
5Jakub KratochvilaIn-n-Out p/b Carrefour+ 1'30
11Stefano AgostiniRepsol - Honda+ 4'08
13Damiano CunegoRepsol - Honda+ 5'12
36Jaime RosonRepsol - Honda+ 9'00
44Marco MarcatoRepsol - Honda+ 10'33
60Ignacio Jesus PradoRepsol - Honda+ 16'01
63Cristian RodríguezRepsol - Honda+ 17'32
90Philippe GilbertRepsol - Honda+ 28'41
102Morgan KneiskyRepsol - Honda+ 33'09
TOUR DU FASO
We came to this race with absolutely zero hopes of even scoring any points, but Marcato surprised us by finishing 23th in GC to score four points. Nothing espectacular, but still more than 0
1Sam HarrisonWorld Cycling Centre8h26'39
2Yoeri HavikKulczyk - DMTEX+ 7
3Scott ThwaitescycleYorkshire+ 11
4Tobyn HortonWiggle p/b Boardman Bikes+ 13
5Evert VerbistCampari - Super Dry+ 19
23Marco MarcatoRepsol - Honda+ 1'32
53Aidan Van NiekerkRepsol - Honda+ 7'07
93Nidush Nirantha FernandoRepsol - Honda+ 26'22
So after our month has finished - still a few teams are currently racing Olympia's Tour, a C1 race in Netherlands, this is how the CT rankings looks like. cycleYorkshire might surpass us if they perform as they should in Olympia's, but we would still be in promotion spots one more month.

Note: Points might not be totally accurated compared to the official rankings, but teams should never be more than 5 points off their real score

PlaceTeamTotal
1World Cycling Centre856
2Kulczyk - DMTEX681
3In-n-Out p/b Carrefour668
4Philips - Continental609
5Repsol - Honda544
6Xero Racing p/b Octagon508
7Azteca - NBCSN504
8cycleYorkshire473
9Campari - Super Dry465
10Goldcorp - Nordstrom Rack464
15Andorra Cycling Project267

This month have seen us losing all the gap we created in the previous month, as we only have now a 36-point gap over Azteca, who sits in seventh place. Also quite important for us is the current gap of 277 points to the 15th place, Andorra, as finishing in the Top15 in the CT Rankings is one of our goals for this season.

At this point we have ridden 56 of our 119 RD, so when we reach the 60-RD mark we'll make a few posts analyzing the season until that point, including an evaluation on the riders

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tsmoha
Lovely review as always.

A month without Valls certainly will always slow down your pprd pace Wink Kneisky definitely disappointing so far though. I remember him doing quite well in the past. From a personal perspective it was nice to see Power in the break. A pity it was going to be your first breakaway with no points gained Sad
 
Aquarius97
tsmoha wrote:
Lovely review as always.

A month without Valls certainly will always slow down your pprd pace Wink Kneisky definitely disappointing so far though. I remember him doing quite well in the past. From a personal perspective it was nice to see Power in the break. A pity it was going to be your first breakaway with no points gained Sad


Thanks! At least Valls is back in June with a couple of interesting races, especially Andorra Wink

It's always nice to have riders in breakaways when you aren't the big favourite Grin Although that stat of "succesfull" breakaway isn't as great as it looked, as it also means that we don't go in too much breakaways. That's also the problem of having won both long CT stage races so far in the season, as if you are in the race lead your riders don't go in breakaways Smile
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JUNE PREVIEW
We are entering the sixth month of the season being in the worst position in the CT Rankings in the whole season! After having been in the top5 of the rankings in every provisional standings made after every single race of the season, after cycleYorkshire scored heavily in Olympia's Tour, we have dropped to the sixth in the standings.

But this month is one to retake our place in the top5, with 2 mountain races and a cobbled one
COSTA RICA MOUNTAIN CLASSIC
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Rafael Valls returns to a PCT race after being dominating the CT mountain so far this season, with 2 GC wins and another GC podium. We are bringing everything we have in the mountains to fight against the best climbers in PCT in Costa Rica. Cunego, Serrano and Nakane will be Valls' key domestiques, and hopefully both can have enough left to score a few minor points. The rest of the squad is made of Roson, Valverde, Agostini and Fernando. You might be surprised by the lack of young riders in a C1 race, but given we have a clash with another race, our planning for this race - and the other race too - was more about filling the team than anything else.

Our goal for this race is to finish somewhere between 6th and 9th, something we think is very possible looking at Valls' performance so far this season

Possible outcomes
Realistic outcome for our team (in terms of places):
Top 10
Realistic outcome for our team (in terms of points): 16

Optimistic outcome for our team (in terms of places):
Top 5 + Top 20
Optimistic outcome for our team (in terms of points): 35
LILLESTROM GP
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The team has been forced to ride in Norway against their will in this infamous race - despite being its first edition. With the team focus put in Costa Rica, several of our team will be also racing in Norwegian cobbles.

Marco Marcato leads as always our cobbled squad, and after finishing 23rd in Faso, we are somehow confident on him been able to finish in the top20 here. Any points that we score outside mountains are very welcomed, as it's also the last pure cobbled race we have to ride this season! Banana

The rest of the team is here just because we had to send them to avoid any penalties from the MGUCI, with Gilbert, Kneisky, Van Niekerk, Prado, Beyer, Power and Rodriguez in our 8-men squad for this race. Hopefully any of them can be in the BotD, just to show the jersey

Possible outcomes
Realistic outcome for our team (in terms of places):
Nothing
Realistic outcome for our team (in terms of points): 0

Optimistic outcome for our team (in terms of places):
Top 20
Optimistic outcome for our team (in terms of points): 5
TOUR D'ANDORRA
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This race is probably the most important race in what's left of our season. If Rafa Valls can manage to win his 3rd GC of the season here in Andorra we'll keep our promotion chances very much alive. If he performs like in Trentino, the other C2HC race he did before - and the only mountain stage race he hasn't won this season - we'll be off the battle.

Also it's interesting to mention that we have the Third Season Goal of the team, which is to finish in Top 5. Valls' support will be the same as in Tachira and Langkawi - and we know how these races ended - with Serrano and Nakane being a perfect duo to control the race in the mountain, especially if Rafa can get into the race lead early. As in most of the races, the rest of the team is formed by young riders, but every single of them isn't useless in this terrain, with Prado and Roson hopefully trying to bring us some extra points by the U25 classification, while Power, Rodriguez and Van Niekerk will have only domestique duties

Possible outcomes
Realistic outcome for our team (in terms of places):
2nd in GC + stage win + Top3 points
Realistic outcome for our team (in terms of points): 106

Optimistic outcome for our team (in terms of places):
Win GC + 2 stage wins + Points + Top3 Teams + Top3 KoM
Optimistic outcome for our team (in terms of points): 203


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MID-SEASON REVIEW
60 RD's into our inagural season, just half of the total RD's, and it's time to evaluate how has gone our season so far.

We never planned to be fighting for promotion in the first season, as we set a goal of finishing inside top15, and in most of predictions we were between 9th and 13th, so it's a pleasant to have been in promotion places all-season until now, although we are now in 7th place in the CT Rankings
Current CT Ranking
PlaceTeamPoints
1World Cycling Centre1005
2Kulczyk - DMTEX839
3In-n-Out p/b Carrefour772
4cycleYorkshire747
5Philips - Continental669
6Goldcorp - Nordstrom Rack587
7Repsol - Honda576
8Xero Racing p/b Octagon560
9Sauber Petronas Racing553
10Azteca - NBCSN525
11Campari - Super Dry478
12Proximus Continental Team476
13Telia-Brussels Airlines371
14Team Reddit314
15Aeropostal Venezuela Ciclismo285


The deficit to Philips, who marks the last direct promotion spot is less than 100 points, something that should be recovered only with Andorra. But even if after the summer we are back in promotion places, the odds are against us for promoting.

What looks way better is our Top15 Goal, as the gap to Aeropostal, who is currently in 15th, is almost 300 points
Race by race analysis
OverallPointsRD'sPpRDRanked
Repsol - Honda576609,60 7th
Type of RacePointsRD'sPpRDRanked
C2HC Races3082114,67 10th
C2 Races231317,45 5th
C1 Races3784,63 10th
RacePointsRD'sPpRDRanked
Tour de Langkawi132718,86 1st
Vuelta al Tachira1161011,61st
Bayern-Rundfahrt855177th
Giro del Trentino82516,45th
Great Ocean Road Classic422214th
Costa Rican Mountain Classic242122nd
Clasico San Cristobal222115th
Euskal Bizikleta20459th
Tour de Romandie1362,17 4th
Gisborne GP102510th
Cacak Classic924,59th
Barcelona Classic82410th
Lillestrom GP82412th
Tour du Faso431,33 17th
Windhoek ITT120,512th
Geraardsbergen-Bosberg02014th
San Marino Hill Classic02017th


It's obvious where are we scoring most of our points; in the mountain races, mostly thank to Valls being 2nd in the Individual Rankings after winning 2 out 3 stage races so far this season. Those 2 stage races were C2 races in Tachira and Langkawi, thus making us being the 5th best team in C2 races, while we are only 10th in C2HC races and C1 races
Rider by Rider analysis
RiderPoints
Rafael Valls330
Stefano Agostini96
Philippe Gilbert65
Damiano Cunego18
Morgan Kneisky18
Rafael Serrano12
Marco Marcato12
Ignacio Jesus Prado11
Alejandro Valverde7
Jaime Roson5
Hideto Nakane1
Robert Power1


Rafael Valls is the star of the team, and is not a surprise to see him scoring around 58% of team's total points, a percentage that will massively increase during after the months of June and July, where he have two stage races in Andorra and Bulgaria.

Our second best scorer is surprisingly Stefano Agostini, mostly thanks to his surprise GC podium in Bayern-Rundfahrt after a breakaway stage win

Most of Gilbert's points came from a late attack in Great Ocean Race, but he has consistently scored points in the hilly races.

The deception of the year is clearly Damiano Cunego, as he has only scored 18 points so far this season, in a pathetic season for the best rider of MG history.

The rest of the team is probably where they could be expected

In another post later, a more focused analysis in some riders will come

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Croatia14
Seems like the huge investment in Valls is carrying you to glory, great to see!
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AbhishekLFC
Well, certain things looks familiar above Wink

Nice analysis though. Shows the importance of Valls to the team. Scary that he still has many racedays left!
 
Booker
Really liking that update, super informative and, in a selfish sense, it's always good to see how we stack up in the Authoritative Aquarius Points Almanacâ„¢

Valls and Penasa have a couple big tilts coming in June/July, looking forward to seeing how they pan out. My count is 2-2 so far: Valls with Langkawi and Tachira, Penasa with Trentino and Costa Rica. I'll take a 3-3 after July Wink
 
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@Croatia My main target pre-transfers was Contador, but in the moment Valls became available i had no doubt about going all-in for him. And while it was a risky move to bet everything on one rider, now i can only laugh when remembering posts pre-season me or other manager saying that 400 points would be a great season :lol:
@Abhishek Won't deny that i was inspired by some elements of your post, mostly in the points per race Pfft And about Valls' RDs left, i'm confident he can double his current points tally in his final 14 RD's. It all depends on how Andorra goes
@Booker Authoritative Aquarius Points Almanacâ„¢ Love it :lol: :lol: :lol:

The 2-2 between Valls and Penasa is very relative, because if we count GC wins, it's 2-1 for Valls, total wins it's 5-2 for Valls, in points Valls has more than Penasa... Wink

A "3-3" wouldn't be bad, but in that case i choose to win Andorra Pfft

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Mid-Season Review: RAFAEL VALLS
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Five photos, five wins. That's the summary of Rafael Valls' season so far. He has been the dominant climber that he was expected to be when he was transfered from Euskaltel in the pre-season.

He is currently in second place in the Individual Rankings, just 19 points behind Sam Harrison, but with Tour d'Andorra coming next, he should be back in the lead at the end of June - or at least ahead of Harrison. As he said in a pre-season interview, he expected to win 1 stage race and take between 3 and 5 wins during the season, while reaching the 500-point mark, Despite having 4 races left in his calendar, including 2 stage races, he has already accomplished his first two season goals, as he has won both Vuelta al Tachira and Tour de Langkawi, while taking 1 stage in Venezuela and 2 in Malaysia, which brings his wins tally to 5, the most succesfull rider in CT, and only one win short of Sam Bewley and Ben Swift. And he is the only rider in all divisions to have won 2 stage races so far this season

Let's take a look on how has his season gone so far.
Vuelta al Tachira
Rafa arrived in Venezuela with the pressure of having to win Vuelta al Tachira, as it was a Win Goal for the team. After 3 easy flat stages, a few hilly/mountain stages came before the real mountain stages, but in those stages, Rafa would finish twice in the top6, never losing any time to the rest of GC favourites. In Stage 8, he would attack with 3 km to go, and while riders like Bardet or Diaz could follow him initially, he would arrive alone at the finish, taking his first stage win in our team, and also only his second ever win.
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Despite losing the lead the next day, in the final stage, a hilly one, Rafa would attack in the final kms and left race leader Mannion behind to finish 3rd in the stage and give us our very first GC win, and accomplish our first ever Goal, and our only Win Goal of the season
Giro del Trentino
The team arrived to the first C2HC stage race of the season leading both Team and Individual Rankings, but that would be the last time that Repsol - Honda was on the top of rankings. We had here our second goal of the season, a Top10 Goal, which would be accomplished again by Rafa, but the race wasn't as good as Tachira. Rafa had a decent opening TT, and was third in the first mountain stage, but didn't have the legs in neither of the last two stages.
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That would eventually make him to finish only third, and while it wasn't a bad result, neither it was a great one. But at the end it was our second goal accomplished, that's what will remain
Tour de Langkawi
Despite not being a season goal, this race was again a key race for both Rafa and the team, as he needed to beat Penasa here to regain the lead in the Individual Ranking. In the opening prologue, Rafa would take only 3 seconds on Penasa, something that could not be enough to take the race lead in the first mountain stage in case of a head-to-head sprint between them in stage 3. Unsurprisingly that was the race scenario, but Rafa was able to out-sprint the Italian to take his third win of the season, and the race lead, which we would never lose during the race
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The 5th stage was the most important stage, and Rafa didn't disappoint. After following a move of Tvetcov, our leader saw the opportunity to go after the stage win and never looked back. A couple of easy days in flat roads and Rafa was in the podium as the winner of 2017 Tour de Langkawi. And thanks to the points obtained in this race, he would become again the leader in the CT Individual Rankings
Costa Rican Mountain Classic
The most recent race he has done, only a few days ago, and also the only one-day race and C1 race that he has taken part so far in the season. He wasn't expected to dominate the mountains like he had done in CT races, but a top10 was a reasonable goal for him in this race.
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And despite initially missing out on the 15-rider group that would sprint for the win, Rafa worked with his new archrival Penasa to reach that group and sprint for a 8th place. A fantastic result in his first PCT outing of the season and a great indicator of how he could perform in PCT if the team gets to promote


It has been a succesfull first part of the season for him, scoring 330 points in his 24 RD's so far, but he still has 14 RD's left to do, and while it might sound strange, we expect him to even surpass that number of points in only his last 14 RD's, which could bring his total points tally to around 700.

Coming next is Tour d'Andorra, a C2HC stage race where the team has a Top5 Goal, but where we expect Rafa to win the race really close to his/our home country. A mountain fest during 5 days where the least we can accept is something around 150 points to come from this race.

In July Rafa will be riding his last stage race in CT level in Bulgaria. Again 5 stages, but with a similar format to Trentino; 3 mountain stages and a 20-km TT. He has won both C2 stage races so far this season, but if he can score "only" under 100 points we'll be satisfied, as we have here our last goal of the season, a Top5 Goal

Then Rafa will rest until October, where he'll have to give our promotion run a final push in two races. First a mountain one-day race in Colombia; Colombian Venteaux. We don't know who he'll return from a two-month hiatus, but at least a podium should be within reach, so at least 42 points.

That leaves the final race of his season, Tour of East Java. Despite being a C1 race, we expect a big result from him, like a Top10, which could give him around 30 points.

That would give him around 320 points in the second part of his season, reaching the 650 mark, what we believe it's enough to win the Individual Rankings.

We rate his season so far with a 9,5. Hopefully at the end of the season we can say again that, or even give him a better score

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Tour d'Andorra Review
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Rafa Valls did it again! The best climber in CT has won his third stage race of the season in Andorra, after having led the race throughout. Rafa clearly knew that this was probably the most important race in the whole season and he didn't disappoint. And with a Top5 Season Goal here, this was our third Goal Achieved out 3 so far this season. And we're looking really good to achieve all our goals in our first season!
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Already in the first stage Rafa took a big early lead, after taking the win in Port de Envalira with over a minute on everyone else, in what was his sixth win of the season, and seventh of his MG career.

In the next 3 stages he saw his gap to Penasa reduced after the Italian's win in S2, but Valls finished third in both S2 and S3 to have the lead in the Points classification too, and despite having an awful day in the MTT, where he finished 38th!!, Rafa did hold a gap of 1'07 entering the final stage of the race, a brutal mountain stage like no other in the calendar
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Once the group where Rafa was with the rest of GC favourites started the final climb; Col d'Ordino, the Spaniard attacked before his main rival could do it, and would eventually crack Penasa, who could not follow the amazing pace of Rafa
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Rafa would take another stage win to end the race, again with a gap over a minute to the second place, and the final margin in GC would be 2'26 to Penasa.

Rafa has now eight wins this season, and is currently the rider with the most wins in 2017, tied with PT best sprinter Ben Swift in the top. He's also now the 7th rider with most wins in CT races in the history and tied for fourth most wins in a single season in CT races.

In the Individual Rankings, Rafa is back in the lead, and with a 110-point gap to Penasa, almost 200 points to Harrison and around 230 points to Roux, and still 9 RD's left in his season, he's the main favourite to suceed Serghei Tvetcov as the CT individual Ranking winner

1Rafael VallsRepsol - Honda21h32'09
2Pierre Paolo PenasaKulczyk - DMTEX+ 02'26
3Winner AnaconaTeam Reddit+ 06'12
4Dario CataldoCampari - Super Dry+ 07'35
5Romain BardetPhilips - Continental+ 08'01
41Hideto NakaneRepsol - Honda+ 36'27
43Rafael SerranoRepsol - Honda+ 36'52
87Jaime RosonRepsol - Honda1h16'00
92Ignacio Jesus PradoRepsol - Honda1h19'46
106Aidan Van NiekerkRepsol - Honda1h41'01
119Robert PowerRepsol - Honda1h58'00
127Cristian RodríguezRepsol - Honda2h11'06

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Shonak
Valls is the definite GOAT (at least in CT) Cool
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Shonak wrote:
Valls is the definite GOAT (at least in CT) Cool


He seems to be in a good season :lol:

Probably if there was a CT calendar like the year Rodrigues won 13 times in a season he could have reached that number "easily". Although he could still get 13 if he wins Bulgaria + 3 stages and Colombian Venteaux later in the season, but maybe is too much to ask for Pfft
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There Booker was in September, revelling in his capture of Penasa on the hyper competitive free agent market, assured by his advisors that he would have the premiere mountain goat in the CT division.

But then...

along came Valls.
 
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