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Lillestrom GP - Discussion
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 20-11-2024 20:12
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 Lillestrom GP (C1)
Welcome to Scandinavia as we're ready to head on some Norwegian cobbles! Last year's winner Edward Theuns is doing his thing in the ProTour currently, so he won't be here to defend his title tomorrow. Let's have a look at the profile.
Well, seems like we're stuck on a local circuit! The same flat cobbled sector will be tackled sixteen times, at least if I was able to count correctly. Just over 200 km's on this flat parcours, although just before the finish line we have a cheeky incline on normal asphalt. The race wasn't super selective last year with more than 10 riders s.t.'ing, and there has never been a solo victor here. So far at least. Let's have a look at the list of cobblers.
| Nat. | Name | FL | HI | ST | RS | CB | SP | AC |  |  Zepuntke Ruben | 72 | 69 | 79 | 72 | 82 | 72 | 65 |  |  Kasperkiewicz Przemyslaw | 76 | 74 | 75 | 77 | 81 | 59 | 67 |  |  Stallaert Joeri | 76 | 66 | 75 | 67 | 80 | 78 | 75 |  |  Gamper Patrick | 77 | 66 | 77 | 77 | 80 | 64 | 71 |  |  Daniel Maxime | 72 | 68 | 75 | 75 | 79 | 75 | 71 |  |  Summerhill Danny | 74 | 69 | 70 | 66 | 79 | 66 | 67 |  |  Jacobs Johan | 76 | 69 | 77 | 76 | 79 | 67 | 68 |  |  Moulingui Clenne Morvan | 74 | 71 | 71 | 71 | 78 | 65 | 68 | |  Owen Logan | 73 | 69 | 73 | 71 | 78 | 64 | 71 |  |  Debesay Mekseb | 74 | 73 | 73 | 77 | 78 | 68 | 76 |  |  Richardson Chequan | 71 | 67 | 68 | 68 | 78 | 60 | 61 |  | Orue German Anibal | 69 | 64 | 77 | 70 | 78 | 53 | 58 |  |  Insausti Jon Ander | 70 | 64 | 76 | 73 | 77 | 57 | 66 |  | Nareklishvili Beka | 72 | 66 | 73 | 73 | 77 | 64 | 71 |  | Kolev Iliyan | 75 | 62 | 73 | 71 | 77 | 62 | 67 |  | Kortsidakis Michail | 77 | 69 | 75 | 75 | 77 | 68 | 72 | | Stavrakakis Georgios | 76 | 68 | 74 | 70 | 77 | 64 | 68 | | Van Keirsbulck Guillaume | 71 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 77 | 69 | 67 |  |  Manamalage Nipuna Shira | 81 | 59 | 71 | 64 | 77 | 57 | 56 |  |  Ovsyannikov Alexandr | 74 | 68 | 75 | 72 | 77 | 79 | 78 |
Highest rated cobbler Zepuntke was here last year and finished ninth, not enjoying the fact that the race wasn't selective. Together with Specialized's Kasperkiewicz he'll be looking to make it more selective this time, with the Polish rider not minding the hill before the finish line.
Funny thing about the list of cobblers is that the following names are exactly the numbers 2 to 5 from last year. Stallaert as always enjoyed a cobble race resulting in a sprint, whereas Gamper already had quite a nice result before his latest off-season training. Daniel was fourth here last year but managed to win the race in 2022, whereas at first glance Summerhill might be least likely of these four names to manage another top-5 here in Norway. ELCO of course able to play the team card again with also Kortsidakis and Stavrakakis.
Jacobs was twentieth here in support of Spengler last time, but no more domestique duties for the Swiss as he'll be hoping to repeat his Omloop podium ideally. And looking at the 78 rated cobblers we first see Moulingui, who did well on Scandinavian cobbles already when winning the C2 Herning classic earlier this season. Debesay stands out as well with quite some decents results so far this season, and we could see him enjoying that final hill as well. Owen and Richardson on the other hand hoping for a top-10, but realizing a worse result is also realistic when looking at their skillsets. An other guy standing out comes from the batch of 77 cobblers, as Ovsyannikov would like to sprint himself to a good result for Tryg again.
Full startlist:
Spoiler  Insausti Jon Ander
Van der Haar Lars
De Bondt Dries
Visser Louis
Scully Tom
Reddish Nick
Piganzoli Davide
Lilovski Dobrin
Drouin David
Arashiro Yudai
Singh Yanglem Rojit
Riabushenko Aliaksandr
Paulus Milan
Itami Kenji
Dzervus Darijus
Stallaert Joeri
Teggart Matthew
Habimana Jean Eric
Kuypers Gerben
Verstrynge Emiel
Huby Antoine
Ben Ameur Hatem
Kulindwa Lameck Marco
Daniel Maxime
Mestric Matija
Louvel Matis
Pithie Laurence
Askey Lewis
Lapeira Paul
Dunne Conor
Costiou Ewen
Summerhill Danny
Kortsidakis Michail
Stavrakakis Georgios
Boutopoulos Georgios
Edmondson Alexander
Agrotis Alexandros
Varotsos Ioannis
Wenzel Mats
Zhupa Eugert
Okbamariam Tesfom
Batmunkh Maral-Erdene
Rowe Luke
Evangelos Sarris
Young Darren
Klahan Noppachai
Sillankorva Jaakko
David Tom
Curley Liam
Crowley Liam
McCambridge Kevin
Yon Hin Daniel
Ryan Archie
Wade Aaron
Geary Dillon
Owen Logan
Sanogo Abou
Chokri El Mehdi
Harrison Sam
Russo Clement
Jurado Cristofer Robin
Sagiv Guy
Mraouni Salah Eddine
Debesay Mekseb
Losch Max
Laurance Axel
Bayer Tobias
Degenkolb John
Nys Thibau
Terada Yoshiki
Wohler Alex
Gamper Patrick
Verwilst Aaron
Biermans Jenthe
Siddikov Dilmurdjon
Van Den Bossche Fabio
Suter Joel
Covi Alessandro
Vandenabeele Henri
Richardson Chequan
Orue German Anibal
Muhindo Jimmy
Bush Robert
Marcos Leandro
Arissol Ahmad
Sheffield Magnus
Revelo Franklin Joel
Kasperkiewicz Przemyslaw
Van Keirsbulck Guillaume
Kumara Amith Udaya
Riesebeek Oscar
Naud Patrick
Malacarne Alex
La Grenade Jeremie
Kench Josh
Kulppi Olli
Manakov Viktor
Breen Vegard
Nielsen Joanis Albert
Kaislavuo Jesse
Eriksson Lucas
Berger Hakon Frengstad
Fjellheim Henrik Teslo
Manamalage Nipuna Shira
Ponomar Andrii
Sitchinava Nika
Varga Peter
Petrov Yordan
Fratczak Radoslaw
Kachur Dmytro
Bilyi Maksym
Jacobs Johan
Schäppi Martin
Grand Arnaud
Van Asbroeck Tom
Touze Damien
Maciejuk Filip
Dillier Silvan
Weiss Fabian
Zepuntke Ruben
Nareklishvili Beka
Heinrich Nicolas
Vangheluwe Warre
Goossens Kobe
Willwohl Willi
Andersen Kasper
Stalberg Albin
Moulingui Clenne Morvan
Kolev Iliyan
Centrone Ivan
Lecourt De Billot Olivier
Peng Yuan Tan
Glivar Gal
Murn Bostjan
Kunkumpai Kantaphon
Ovsyannikov Alexandr
Pedersen Rasmus Sojberg
Broxham Ricardo
Van De Paar Jarne
Enggaard Victor Grue
Malmberg Matias
Davies Scott
Holm Jorgensen Adam
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 20-11-2024 20:46
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Need a better outing from Kaspa here after two bad races from him. Thanks for the preview!
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Posted on 22-11-2024 05:06
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| ivaneurope |
Posted on 20-11-2024 20:56
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Our lineup doesn't differ much from the one for KBK - it's not a bad lineup, per sé, but unfortunately is not great for anything else than C2 so the bar is really low here.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 20-11-2024 21:36
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The cobbled classics are going by fast, but Gamper is still to get a good result. Not sure if this is the best race for him either.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| seancoll |
Posted on 20-11-2024 23:46
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Hoping to do better here than KBK and GW. Need the speed on the cobbles to be high throughout the race with a Turtle or two in the breakaway.
Getting Orue and Richardson into a final 15 man group would be perfect -even if they go 14th and 15th. Larger groups to the finish will be disastrous for us.
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 21-11-2024 09:44
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Yay, our home race! Looking forward to participate here, although we would be really happy with a top 10  |
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 21-11-2024 18:09
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Another chance for Daniel to keep his streak of great results going. We wouldn't mind some more depth points from Mestric, Louvel and Pithie either.
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| SotD |
Posted on 21-11-2024 19:19
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Fingers crossed we can keep up the strong cobbles department. So far it is the thing that keeps us high in the rankings.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 21-11-2024 22:22
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Finally we get the Gamper we want to see! Congrats to Specialized for another win and thanks for the very entertaining report.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 21-11-2024 23:03
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Holy shit what a race 
Very nice to see Kaspa not going on a doomed mission for once, netting us some valuable points, you love to see it!
Thanks for a great report, thought that Zepunkte would take a massive win for a while there!
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| SotD |
Posted on 22-11-2024 05:04
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Massive strength in numbers, but we didn’t play that one very well, to end up with the 4 worst positions in the group. Both Kortsidakis and Boutopoulos are fast enough to fight for a top 5 in such a group. Also too bad that Edmondson didn’t make the selection rather than one of the others, as he should have been among the fastest.
Oh well. Depth scoring is still pretty good here.
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