3. stage, Ras Tailteann - Salleh in top 10

For the finish of this three days stage race, it was a quiet race with a breakaway who was caught 5km to go.

In the last two km, we had in front Abraha, Mezgec, and our leader Salleh. One and a half km to go Mezgec started to make extremely fast leadout and he distanced from Salleh who had a small a couple of sec gap to the peloton.

Around 800m Salleh was managed to caught Mezgec but he burned out almost all from himself and he was caught from the peloton from behind.

Salleh finished 6th, Mustafa Carsi won the stage.

Results

1	Mustafa Carsi	Nordica - Enel	4h07'09
2	Lionel Coutinho	Guave's Sunlight Cycling	s.t.
3	Matteo Pelucchi	Sotto il sole di Riccione	s.t.
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6	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
17	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
25	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
26	Tesfay Abraha	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
27	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
28	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
71	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
121	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.

GC

1	Mustafa Carsi	Nordica - Enel	12h25'02
2	Matteo Pelucchi	Sotto il sole di Riccione	+ 8
3	Asbjorn Kragh Andersen	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	s.t.
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12	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	+23
36	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+ 37
40	Tesfay Abraha	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
51	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
54	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
60	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
80	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
97	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.

U25

1	Samuel Mugisha	Bralirwa - Stevens Bikes	12h25'36
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6	James Knox	Trans Cycling Team	+ 3
7	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
11	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
22	Andre Sotberg	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
31	Cristian Munoz	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.

Team

1	Centovalli - Fiat	155
2	Nordica - Enel	163
3	Aramco DP	168
4	Trans Cycling Team	190

Guave wrote:
Apart from stage 1, it's certainly not bad what Salleh showed here. A very strong teamachievement overall as well.

Venter in Catalunya impressed me as well. Pogacar apparently is still trying to find his feet. Always relatively close to a podium on the U25 rankings, but not quite there yet. Only a matter of time though!

TinxiaS wrote:
I think Poga�ar will be dangerous next year when he will be even higher level with higher stats and he will be still under 25 if I remember correctly.

Trofeo Laigueglia - Primoži� in breakwawy and Barbin in top 10!

After 25km young Slovenian talent Jaka Primoži� made to join the breakaway.

After the first three of the biggest climbs, he was still in a breakaway with 6 riders 30km the had a 2'02'' lead on Peloton.
In the last shorter hills peloton caught the first riders from the breakaway. Jaka was caught around 7km to go.

In the last few kilometers, it came to different smaller attacks, and in one of those group, we still had our leader for this race Barbin. In the last few hundred meters, Quevedo and Moscon had a lead to 7 riders (Barbin and Kelderman).

In the end, Quevedo won a sprint against Moscon, and on a third came Edmondson with a couple of meters gap. Our Leader Barbin finished in great 6th place ahead of the first favourite for this race win Kelderman.

Results

1	Xavier Quevedo	Carrefour - ESPN	5h00'41
2	Gianni Moscon	Centovalli - Fiat	s.t.
3	Joshua Edmondson	BNZ Cycling Team	s.t.
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6	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
26	Jaka Primozic	Trans Cycling Team	+2'20''
62	Sascha Modolo	Trans Cycling Team	+4'27''
74	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+5'26''
76	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
78	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
93	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
147	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	+10'44''

For this, we don't have any big expectations except for young riders to get some extra experience for next season.
We still hope for a miracle from Thomas Geraint but between that good competition, it will be extremely hard to get a result.
Poga�ar will be finally able to ride on a race that his primary team Swisslion will ride too.

The race where we didn't expect anything.
The only bright light was an attack from Thomas where he joined the breakaway groupe for a couple of km.

The best result was by Tesfay Abraha in 46th place.

Another in a series of races where the result wasn't important. It was about to get younger riders more experience for next season.

At the start of the race, our British young talent James Knox joined the breakaway. 70km to go he attacked from the breakaway and he was caught 47km to go.

At the and Hardy was our highest placed rider on 28th place and just missed points.


Next race where we expect much better performance will be the Tour of Eritrea.

After a few C1 races which are more for train our young rider, we can finally count to get some points.

From our young Slovenian star Tadej Poga�ar we expect to be at least Top 5 if not Top3 in the young classification.

Vener already proved that he is capable to collect points for mountain classification.


Barbin will be our main candidate in the 4th stage and Salleh will be with Mezgec our main candidate for the first two and the 5th stage.

We finally hope for some better results maybe even a stage win or at least points.

Good start at 1st stage, Tour of Eritrea
Yesterday started the first stage of Tour of Eritrea!

Our guys were all day in a front with different teams control the race and breakaway group.

In the last km, we had three riders in the front. Our leader was Salleh but he couldn't keep up with Luka Mezgec who finished in 4th place after extremely close finally between positions from 2nd place to 8th place.

The winner of the first stage was Lionel Coutinho. Our second best was Salleh in 10th place.

A bit of surprisingly we finished in the first place in a team clasification!

Stage:

1	Lionel Coutinho	Guave's Sunlight Cycling	4h27'11
2	Alexander Krieger	Tryg - Ritter Sport	s.t.
3	Rüdiger Selig	Bralirwa - Stevens Bikes	s.t.
4	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
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10	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
25	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
53	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
70	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
104	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
112	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
115	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.

GC:

1	Lionel Coutinho	Guave's Sunlight Cycling	4h26'51
2	Nathan Haas	Glanbia Foods Cycling Project	+ 4
3	Nikita Umerbekov	Eddie Stobart	+ 6
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8	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+ 20
14	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
29	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
57	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
74	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
108	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
116	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
118	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.

Points:

1	Lionel Coutinho	Guave's Sunlight Cycling	25
2	Alexander Krieger	Tryg - Ritter Sport	20
3	Nathan Haas	Glanbia Foods Cycling Project	16
6	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	14
12	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	6

Teams:

1

Trans Cycling Team

13h21'33

U25:

1	Sandy Nur Hasan	Sauber Petronas Racing	4h27'11
2	Nicola Venchiarutti	Nordica - Enel	s.t.
3	Jonas Gregaard	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	s.t.
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17	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
26	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.

redordead wrote:
Plenty of chances for aggresive riding and stage results in Eritrea

I'll be cheering for Pogi all the way

2nd stage, Tour of Eritrea, in the team classification we are in the first place!

Today was another good day for our team.
We didn't get a lot of points but as we are a first-year team these are great results.

After the early attack, our team was controlling the race with the Bralirwa team.

Venter and Pibernik got their first Kom points probably in the last Kom section.

A couple of teams and our riders started in front of the peloton strong pace which brakes the peloton into two groups. Our leader, Mezgec, and Pibernik all managed to be in a front group which meant we will get another top 10 place!

In the last km, Luka Mezgec started again with the too strong a lead out for Salleh which means he distance himself from our leader for a couple of meters.
a couple of hundred meters further Salleh managed to join Mezgec and started sprint for another great result.

The winner of the second stage is Luke Keough. Salleh managed to finish in 6th place which wasn't what we expected. Luka Mezgec finished in 12th place and Luka Pibernik in 14th place still in the first group!

Stage:

1	Luke Keough	McCormick Pro Cycling	3h36'30
2	Asbjorn Kragh Andersen	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	s.t.
3	Sonny Colbrelli	Strava	s.t.
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6	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
12	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
14	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
22	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
26	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
56	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
140	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
156	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	+ 3'57

GC:

1	Luke Keough	McCormick Pro Cycling	8h03'21
2	Alexander Krieger	Tryg - Ritter Sport	+ 8
3	Asbjorn Kragh Andersen	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	s.t.
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7	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+20
8	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
14	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
39	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	+1'18''
74	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
81	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
136	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
154	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	+ 4'17

Points:

1	Luke Keough	McCormick Pro Cycling	37
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8	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	18
10	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	16
24	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	2

KOM:

1	Travis Meyer	Eddie Stobart	20
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6	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	3
10	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	1

Team:

1

Trans Cycling Team

24h11'03 (1)

This result after the first two stages wasn't expected even that we have more spreanter team at this race compare to teams who are going to GC. It was amazing to see the team so high but after today's mountain stage our team will be somewhere at the end of the team classification.

U25:

1	Frederik Rodenberg	Tryg - Ritter Sport	8h04'39 (1)
2	Connor W Brown	McCormick Pro Cycling	+ 0 (2)
3	Magnus Bak Klaris	Tryg - Ritter Sport	+ 0 (3)
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15	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	+ 0 (15)
42	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	+ 2'59 (42)

3. Stage, Tour of Eritrea - Queen stage!
Es expected we didn't count to high places in GC but we were looking on U25 clasification for Tadej Poga�ar, young Slovenian on loan from Swisslion Cycling Team.

Nico Keinath won the queen stage and Tadej Poga�ar was the first to finish queen stage from our team on 55th place.

U25

1	Matteo Fabbro	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	13h58'46 (1)
2	Niklas Eg	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	+ 3'42 (2)
3	Georg Zimmermann	Tryg - Ritter Sport	+ 6'35 (3)
4	Jonas Gregaard	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	+ 6'54 (4)
5	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	+ 8'32 (5)

4. Stage, Tour of Eritrea - Barbin in Top 10!

This was the stage where we expected a lot from Barbin!

Soon after the start, it started with a huge 27-rider breakaway group.
We weren't lucky to have any rider in.

After three cat climbs riders in the peloton started attacking and it came to different smaller groups. Our leader for this stage Barbin managed to go in the third group which was 23sec behind the leader.

Around 5km to the finished Barbin went to a downhill attack with another rider but they couldn't catch the group infront.

Valens Ndayisenga won the 4th stage, Tour of Eritrea!

Barbin finished in 8th place and first in the second group!

Stage:

1	Valens Ndayisenga	Bralirwa - Stevens Bikes	4h08'38
2	Sepp Kuss	McCormick Pro Cycling	s.t.
3	Juan Ernesto Chamorro	Carrefour - ESPN	s.t.
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8	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	+ 35
49	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	+3'39''
68	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+4'25''
71	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
84	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	+6'10''
112	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+10'04''
115	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
144	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	+17'18''

GC:

1	Lawrence Warbasse	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	18h07'03
2	Valens Ndayisenga	Bralirwa - Stevens Bikes	+ 1
3	Kilian Frankiny	Sauber Petronas Racing	+ 8
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56	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+ 14'04
57	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	+ 14'15
61	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	+ 15'03
64	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	+ 15'53
83	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	+ 21'33
110	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+ 32'39
145	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	+ 59'54
146	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1h00'45

Points:

1	Luke Keough	McCormick Pro Cycling	37
2	Alexander Krieger	Tryg - Ritter Sport	34
3	Lawrence Warbasse	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	26
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18	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	18
20	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	16
30	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	8
45	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	2

KoM:

1	Travis Meyer	Eddie Stobart	52
2	Odd Christian Eiking	Gjensidige Pro Cycling Team	28
3	Gian Piero Signorini	Nordica - Enel	22
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24	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	3
30	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	1

U25:

1	Matteo Fabbro	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	18h08'27 (1)
2	Niklas Eg	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	+ 3'14 (2)
3	Georg Zimmermann	Tryg - Ritter Sport	+ 10'40 (3)
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6	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	+ 13'39 (6)
42	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	+ 58'30 (42)

5. Stage, Tour of Eritrea - Salleh in third place!

The last first stage was our last big opportunity to get our first stage win.
After the long breakaway, they were caught in the last 10km of the 5th stage.
In the last 5km, we had 5 riders in the front, and in 1.5km we had our own lead-out train with Barbin, Mezgec, and Salleh our leader.

For the first time, Luka Mezgec did a really amazing lead-out for Salleh in the last kilometer.

In the end, Salleh didn't have enough power to finish in first place but he still finished in third place.

Winner of the 5th stage was Igor Boev in a front of Theo Reinhardt.

Stage:

1	Igor Boev	Philips	3h31'10
2	Theo Reinhardt	Centovalli - Fiat	s.t.
3	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
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14	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
33	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
44	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
62	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
66	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
71	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
75	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.

GC:

1	Lawrence Warbasse	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	21h38'13
2	Valens Ndayisenga	Bralirwa - Stevens Bikes	+ 1
3	Kilian Frankiny	Sauber Petronas Racing	+ 8
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53	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+ 14'04
54	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	+ 14'15
57	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	+ 15'03
61	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	+ 15'53
77	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	+ 21'33
109	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+ 32'39
145	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	+ 59'54
146	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1h00'37

Points:

1	Luke Keough	McCormick Pro Cycling	47
2	Alexander Krieger	Tryg - Ritter Sport	41
3	Lionel Coutinho	Guave's Sunlight Cycling	39
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8	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	32
20	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	20

U25:

1	Matteo Fabbro	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	21h41'40 (1)
2	Niklas Eg	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	+ 3'14 (2)
3	Georg Zimmermann	Tryg - Ritter Sport	+ 8'37 (3)
4	Jonas Gregaard	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	+ 11'05 (4)
5	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	+ 11'36 (5)

6. Stage, Tour of Eritrea - A disappointing performance by the whole team

It was the last stage and the most important one for Tadej Poga�ar our leader for U25 general classification.
We knew that we didn't have a team for that kinda stage but we hoped that Pogi can keep 5th place in U25general classification.
After the start, there came to the breakaway immediately and we didn't have anyone in a front.

We hoped that Venter, Barbi, Camargo, and Pibernik could help Poga�ar but in the end, the stage was to har for Poga�ar and he finished 6min behind the winner Daniel Hoelgaard.

Stage:

1	Daniel Hoelgaard	Tryg - Ritter Sport	5h01'41
2	Juan Ernesto Chamorro	Carrefour - ESPN	s.t.
3	Thibaut Pinot	Project: Africa	s.t.
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52	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	+0'31
64	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+1'25
86	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	+ 3'33
93	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	s.t.
100	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	+ 6'05
106	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+6'19
111	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	+ 7'09
143	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	+16'50

GC:

1	Lawrence Warbasse	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	26h39'54
2	Juan Ernesto Chamorro	Carrefour - ESPN	+ 1
3	Valens Ndayisenga	Bralirwa - Stevens Bikes	s.t.
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51	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	+ 15'29
56	Jonathan Camargo	Trans Cycling Team	+ 16'24
61	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	+ 17'48
71	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	+ 21'08
79	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	+ 25'06
105	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	+ 38'58
139	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1h07'46
145	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1h16'44

Points:

1	Luke Keough	McCormick Pro Cycling	47
2	Alexander Krieger	Tryg - Ritter Sport	41
3	Valens Ndayisenga	Bralirwa - Stevens Bikes	39
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12	Mohamed Harrif Salleh	Trans Cycling Team	32
24	Luka Mezgec	Trans Cycling Team	20
35	Enrico Barbin	Trans Cycling Team	8
56	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	2

KOM:

1	Travis Meyer	Eddie Stobart	52
2	Farzad Khodayari	Guave's Sunlight Cycling	44
3	Asmund Romstad Lovik	Eddie Stobart	32
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31	Jaco Venter	Trans Cycling Team	3
37	Luka Pibernik	Trans Cycling Team	1

Teams:

1	Team Europcar	80h01'55 (1)
2	Centovalli - Fiat	+ 2'39 (2)
3	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	+ 5'41 (3)
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16	Trans Cycling Team	+ 39'59 (16)

U25:

1	Matteo Fabbro	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	26h43'21 (1)
2	Niklas Eg	Carlsberg - Danske Bank	+ 5'56 (2)
3	Georg Zimmermann	Tryg - Ritter Sport	+ 8'37 (3)
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7	Tadej Pogacar	Trans Cycling Team	+ 17'41 (7)
42	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Trans Cycling Team	+ 1h13'17 (42)

We hope that the three one-day races in April and May will be much more successful for us special as these are our first three goals of the season next to the last race in a season.

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Salleh	Mohamed Harrif	70	55	59	57	73	65	77	58	80	80	59	68	71
Mezgec	Luka	71	61	67	60	73	70	76	58	79	77	62	68	70
Modolo	Sascha	73	60	72	57	73	70	79	67	77	79	61	64	69
Thomas	Geraint	73	50	58	61	72	67	64	77	72	75	69	61	61
Pibernik	Luka	72	65	76	60	76	68	68	61	68	74	72	67	62
Barbin	Enrico	69	68	78	63	75	73	70	57	71	76	65	67	63
Korosec	Rok	71	68	75	68	74	71	71	62	75	78	70	69	71
Ignatiev	Mikhail	76	62	71	76	75	68	68	50	68	76	81	51	76

Betonexpressz GP is the first of four goals this year. We hope after not great first three months that we will have more luck in this and next race. This is the first time that we put on a start list our strongest team and we really hope that the chemistry and luck will connect this time.

GP Izola or GP Slovenian Istria which is the official name right now is our home race and the most important race of the year!
This is our winning goal. We do not expect to win but all close to the podium it will be amazing.

redordead wrote:
Strong and well suited lineups for all the upcoming one day races

Would be awesome to see the "home" team win in Izola or Lincoln