Pos	Last		Team	Total	RD	PpRD	Proj
1	11		Grieg-Maersk	2768	58	47.72	8590
15	19		MOL Cycling Team	1619	58	27.91	5024
16	12		Team Puma - SAP	1606	57	28.18	5072
17	21		Evonik - ELKO	1588	57	27.86	5015
18	14		Polar	1559	48	32.48	5846
19	18		Lidl Cycling	1539	47	32.74	5893

After a good start to the cobbles campaign by Jan Polanc, our team has barely climbed out of the relegation spots. The gap to the top is already large but a lot of racing is still ahead of us and the next month will give us again a few opportunities for good scoring and also starts the GT racing:

Another cobbled monument, the same lineup that we have seen so often in March already. Not the best profile for Polanc but he still can contest for a top 10-15 result and Krists Neilands has repeatedly performed very well here.

On paper, the Giro is our weakest GT squad of the year. We enter the race with a double GC leadership of Tobias Foss and Luke Plapp. Tobias Foss already finished 12th last year and has shown that he can be a good GC option while Luke Plapp is likely one of the contenders for the U25 jersey. The rest of the squad is mostly built with the early TTT in mind. The major exception is Jaume Sureda who is hoping to compete for stage podiums in the sprints.

Very little expectations for this one. Blums is our best chance for a result but realistically, we need to hope for breaks or good sprinting by Silva if we want to get some success.

You have a hard time finding a more prominent race lineup all season. Lecuisinier and Lopez are forming the super duo, Eenkhoorn and Blums are great super domestiques and Konrad, Krasts and Polanc are quite capable on the mountain roads as well.

It's the start of the Ardennes week and that always means Lopez time. Unlike the cobbles team, his support team is constantly changing to some extent but guys like Blums, Konrad, Gavars or Baroncini are relied on heavily.

knockout wrote:

AbhishekLFC wrote:

Somehow Liechtenstein became the worst place to have MAL as super dom for PHL, as the brutal climbs pretty much killed any hopes the former had of a high placing. Do think PHL will come good very soon, and so will MAL