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| jt1109 |
Posted on 12-11-2026 18:02
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Absolutely got away with one there thanks to VdP strength looking at where Lapeira has finished phew! 6th isn't good really but could have been a disaster.
Congrats Fab Schmiid good as expected strange mix of riders behind but all had some claims. Glad to have called Spengler and that large DH playing a massive part for him hopefully shows others what we were seeing in this race during testing, do think we need to look at changing the stat in the MG DB next season to say Bike Handling to avoid the confusion going forward if PCM aren't putting a Gravel stat in and have decided to use this instead |
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 12-11-2026 18:12
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17th for Eriksson is honestly fine, this field was stacked and he excelled nowhere.
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| seancoll |
Posted on 12-11-2026 18:31
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Got away with a completely hidden race, but McCarthy had all the right qualities to stay in that front group. Amazingly he found his way to the front line in the sprint and comes away with 5th. I was fully prepared for him to get dropped on an early slope, so I'm absolutely thrilled with this one.
Congrats Fabianski! Know that it must feel good for Schmid to take such an iconic victory.
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 12-11-2026 19:04
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Huge ride from Schmid, congrats Fab!
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 12-11-2026 19:08
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Hopefully this isn't an indicator of what our depth scoring will be like this season but nice to see Hirschi having the energy to sustain an attack and still finish 4th afterwards.
Congrats Fab on the Schmid victory, I always like to see attacks pay off even if everyone tips us to be the ones chasing them down this year
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 12-11-2026 19:13
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Jorgenson completely flops here. Doesn't happen often, but disappointing when it happens.
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| Heine |
Posted on 12-11-2026 19:36
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Congrats Fab! Big win!
Also congrats to Cunego. 2nd and 3rd. Big points!
Thanks for a great report!
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 12-11-2026 20:14
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Acceptable result from AvN. At least we got a decent amount of points.
Congrats Fabianski and thanks Imladrik
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 12-11-2026 20:25
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What a ride by Mauro 
Well, I'm not at all surprised to see him going for that mid-range attack - it happens almost every time I run this race. But I've never seen him not being caught, so this really was an exceptional race by him! It's definitely one of the most exciting wins in our palmarès, winning such an iconic race (albeit not a monument) feels really good!
Great race by Delco as well, the downhill factor (@jt, I wouldn't call it "bike handling" by the way, that's too broad - maybe just DH&GV) surely helped him.
And what a ridiculous result by Bralirwa - didn't expect Girmay to be anywhere near the Top 10, but what a race! And at this point, I guess I can just be happy that they're taking a lot of points away from the other contenders for 2nd place 
Commiserations to those who failed - surprising to see Jorgenson, Eriksson, Benoot and Müller so far down, I've seen all of them win this race in some more favourable constellation... There will surely be better days ahead.
And well done to the Turtles, 5th place here is really nice 
Thanks for the exciting report, and thanks for the congrats!
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 12-11-2026 22:10
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Fabianski wrote:
And what a ridiculous result by Bralirwa - didn't expect Girmay to be anywhere near the Top 10, but what a race! And at this point, I guess I can just be happy that they're taking a lot of points away from the other contenders for 2nd place
First of all, congratulations to a great win it's so rare to see long range attacks succeed, and so cool when it actually happens! I would've loved to see Gamper rewarded as well for some redemption after the cobbles so far, but Schmid seems to have done too much damage after they joined up.
And then, yeah, absolutely ridiculous result by us, completely unexpected. Especially after we had missed some of the earlier selections. When it comes to finishing from a small group, Madouas and Girmay are among the better riders out there, I just didn't expect them to be in that position in the first place. But so far, this season it's just all coming together for us somehow.
Thanks for a great report Imladrik!
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 12-11-2026 22:28
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Fabianski wrote:
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Great race by Delco as well, the downhill factor (@jt, I wouldn't call it "bike handling" by the way, that's too broad - maybe just DH&GV) surely helped him.
Yeah good point Fab I got Bike Handling from Tour De France game as that's their stat for it and seems to be what DH is doing in PCM |
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 13-11-2026 00:56
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7th is an ok result from MVD. Not great but not too bad either. He met the pre-race expectations.
Congrats to Fab and thanks for the report Imladrik
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 13-11-2026 00:57
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Sprenger in 10th and staying with the first group is amazing result for us here! I was not expecting anything close to that! Really happy with that performance!
Congrats to Schmid on the win and Cunego for 2nd and 3rd!
Thanks for the report!
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 13-11-2026 03:51
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On one hand a really positive ride by us with Simmons, Barthe, Hecht and Godon all playing a role in the last 50k.
Feel in the end though we didn't really get the deserved reward for the effort with Simmons finishing at the back of the first chase group by a few feet behind riders who sat on for most of the race. Of course that is how the sport works.
4 in the top 30 does give us some reward for the depth but really we needs some outright dumb luck and not moral victories to get the season back on track.
Awesome ride by Schmid, great to see a long range attack pan out and thanks to Imladrik for the report. Think this parcours really makes for good racing. I don't think we will go the way of IRL and turn Strade into a 220k slog.
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| Heine |
Posted on 13-11-2026 08:22
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cunego59 wrote:
And then, yeah, absolutely ridiculous result by us, completely unexpected. Especially after we had missed some of the earlier selections. When it comes to finishing from a small group, Madouas and Girmay are among the better riders out there, I just didn't expect them to be in that position in the first place. But so far, this season it's just all coming together for us somehow.
Exactly one of the reasons I really wanted Madouas. Riders who can finish well from small groups are extremly good point scorers. When they have a bad they it elevates their results, and when they have a good day it REALLY ELEVATES their results
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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 13-11-2026 08:35
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Thanks Imladrik for the great report and congrats Fabi!
We'll take the seven points from Ariesen, more that we expected.
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| Caspi |
Posted on 13-11-2026 21:15
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+1
Disappointing race for us. Top 20 was too optimistic, but we should have been in the top 30. I guess we shouldn't have chosen Owen as leader (seems like he was captain?).
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