So, some days ago(13 to be more exact) I started a career with Scott/Marcondes in Pro Cycling Manager 09. It was the only Brazilian team in the game, and I'm Brazilian, so it's obvious why I chose them.
The story had just begun and I got PCM 10 I intended to restart the story with the same team, when I found the problem that the team wasn't in the PCM.daily's DBs. In fact, they didn't exist irl anymore, financial problems. Shocked with the fact they weren't in the DB, I initially had 3 ideas in mind:
1. Eat a cookie.
2. Watch TV. 3. Ask for help for the readers of the story.
After thinking for about 20 minutes, I decided to eat a cookie. Afterwards, I asked for help for the readers of the story. I was suggested to get the equipment KenL had made for a brazilian team and create a new career in PCM10. Soooooo here we go again!!
Time for the show to begin once more again time after time?
Difficulty: Hard (Normal difficulty for financial part)
Database: PCMdailyExpansionPackV2-2010Champions
Rider Development: 0,5
Orientation of custom team: 80%(I needed to raise to 80% to get the guys from the Scott/Marcondes team =O)
lluuiiggii wrote:
Let's start with goals and key races, then.
Again, our first race is our first objective!! This is starting to get monotonous now(the same happened in 2009 story).
The squad is almost the same as the Scott/Marcondes team. And I see that now it's corrected, Francisco Chamorro country is now Argentina. It was Brazil in PCM.daily DB for 2009. The 3 main leaders are here. Probably the most notable missing is Carlos Betancourt, who was our hilly races leader. Not much more to talk about the squad.
Finally, our leaders:
Luciano Pagliarini is an old, experienced sprinter. He’s passed on teams like Lampre and Liquigas. He took part in 2005 TdF, getting a 5th place on stage 2. In 2007, he won a stage in Eneco Tour, being the first Brazilian to acquire a victory in the UCI Pro Tour. Goals
Eneco Tour(if WC)
Nicholas Walker is an young talented sprinter, one of the free agents we signed. The Australian has a medium potential to get better, nothing really good. I expect good results from him in this season. Goals
Vuelta Asturias(win stage - team objective)
Paris - Bruxeles
GP de Fourmies
Tour of Britain
Tanel Kangert is other free agent we signed. He is a young cyclist, but as Walker, he doesn’t have a good potential. With decent MO, TT and HIL stats he will be our leader in stage races, and I DON'T find difficult ANYMORE(if you followed the 09 story you got it =P) for him to get a stage race this year. His goals will be somewhat difficult though. Goals
Giro di Toscana
Amgen Tour of California(if WC)
Ronde van België
Schwarzwald Rundfahrt
Without Carlos Betancourt and without any other rider with hill stat above 70 but Kangert, Kangert is leading/co-leading the team in 4 of our 6 objectives. Then I even added AToC for him, if we manage to get an WC for it. It will be a though season for these guys.
When I started planning the season, the team was participating in about 6 or 7 races, so we'll have to count with a lot of Wild Cards. The main ones are probably Eneco Tour and AToC, hope we get them.
Nothing more to be treated, or at least very few to be treated, let the season begin!
Edited by lluuiiggii on 15-12-2010 06:23
January 1st
Start of the season. New year, new team, new story, new life(oh how philosophic =P)
January 31st
We had no races this month, but tomorrow is the day. Our season really begins tomorrow. In this month, we've planned the season, signed sponsor contracts and ate doughnuts.
Would you like some?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other races results Pro Tour
Australian Championship (ITT)
1
Richie Porte
54'49"
2
Cadel Evans
+14"
3
Michael Rogers
+18"
Australian Championship
1
Stuart O'Grady
5h22'12"
2
Matthew Wilson
s.t.
3
Peter Smith
s.t.
Santos Tour Down Under
1
Kim Kirchen
18h01'21"
2
Karsten Kroon
+1"
3
Richie Porte
+23"
Spoiler
Stage 1
1
Brett Lancaster
3h15'42"
2
Karsten Kroon
s.t.
3
Francesco Chicchi
+25"
Stage 2
1
Greg Henderson
2h45'23"
2
Óscar Freire
s.t.
3
Francesco Chicchi
s.t.
Stage 3
1
Kim Kirchen
3h14'55"
2
Maxim Iglinsky
+13"
3
Pablo Lastras
s.t.
Stage 4
1
Francesco Chicchi
3h09'33"
2
Óscar Freire
s.t.
3
Kenny de Haes
s.t.
Stage 5
1
Fabio Sabatini
3h28'26"
2
Karsten Kroon
+51"
3
Gregory Rast
+1'25"
Stage 6
1
Greg Henderson
2h05'42"
2
Tyler Farrar
s.t.
3
Francesco Chicchi
s.t.
Points
Francesco Chicchi
Mountain
Jurgen Van den Broeck
Young
Richie Porte
Team
Caisse d'Epargne
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rankings UCI Pro Tour Individual
Some observations:
1. I won't post results of CT races, first because very few people are interested in it, second because it would kill me, taking more time to do the 'other results' than the story itself. Is that alright?
2. Do you prefer for me only to put the 'other race results' at the end of the month, or put as I play and as they occur, and if yes for the last option, should I put stage by stage or all stages together in the end like here with TdU?
Edited by lluuiiggii on 15-12-2010 05:34
Good luck with this story.
I also don`t post the result of races I haven`t participated. Just a screenshot of the filled calendar in the end of the month as an overview is enough in my opinion.
And maybe some information during your reports if a rider attacks or wins something and had won another race before.
Well, I am one of the very few people whiich like it to see the other race results, but it is not such important Do it how you like it.
Good luck with this story. And of course I want a donut
@all
I think I'll post the results on each race's end, so it won't be so much things in only 1 post.
February 1st
Giro della Calabria
So, again, our first race is our first objective. In this race, we’ll have to snatch one stage win - something that will be very difficult. The race is only 4 stages long, 2 of them being hilly stages and 2 of them being flat stages. Historically, though, it wasn’t like this. In fact, it appears that in real life it is a single-day race.
It’s and old race, being created in 1920, and had 63 editions. Most wins goes for Michele Dancelli, 3 wins, most recent to Matteo Montaguti, from De Rosa-Stac Plastic, a small CT team. Wow, that’s some story. A CT win again is very difficult in this year’s edition, as we have some good Pro Tour teams, such as Garmin, AG2R, Liquigas and Lampre.
Stage profiles:
The GC Contenders
The main contender here according to the game is AG2R’s Vladimir Efimkin. But we have other strong riders, such as Dave Zabriskie(Garmin), Giovanni Visconti(ISD-Neri), Przemyslaw Niemic(Miche), Matteo Carrara(Vacansoleil) and Mirco Lorenzetto (Lampre). Some are favoured by the lack of time trials in the race, like Lorenzetto, Carrara and Niemic. Some are the opposite, like Zabriskie. With a high number of somewhat good hillers here, the 2 hilly stages should be very interesting to watch.
The Sprinters
As I started looking at the list searching for sprinter names, I saw that the objective would be almost impossible to achieve, at least seeing from our sprinter’s side. I had put faith in the 2 sprint stages, but after seeing Robert Hunter, Robbie McEwen, Francesco Chicchi, Alessandro Pettachi and a lot more of average sprinters(who are better than our two sprinters), well… of course I took out all the faith. Let’s hope for 1 or maybe 2 top tens though.
Rio es Carnival/Seara/Vivo
Team Goals:
- Stage Win - Sponsor Goal (Kangert, Pagliarini, Walker)
- Top 20 GC (Kangert)
Well, I had this objective of the stage win, and I gotta say that when seeing the season goals, I thought “Oh this one is gonna be very hard”, but now I realize indeed it isn’t very hard - it’s impossible. We’re just gonna race this thing but without any expectations of completing the objective.
Tanel Kangert will try for a good GC in the hill stages, and will receive mainly help from Mauricio Morandi and Magno Nazaret. Probably one of the two will try to enter in the breakaway. For the sprints, we have Luciano Pagliarini and Nicholas Walker. The one with more fitness will receive help from the other. Or with better daily form. Daniel Rogelin and Nilceu dos Santos will be helpers for the sprinters, and young rider Tiago Fiorilli will make sure the others will have enough water bottles. The team:
1. Tanel Kangert
2. Nilceu dos Santos
3. Tiago Fiorilli
4. Mauricio Morandi
5. Magno Prado Nazaret
6. Luciano Pagliarini
7. Tiago Fiorilli
8. Nicholas Walker
Ps.: after the performance of the old team in Tour de San Luis, getting results a little bit unreal, we’ve decided not to go to a preseason training camp, which means our riders have no fitness advantage which means results will be a little more real today
February 1st: Giro della Calabria
Stage 1: Palmi - Cosenza, 173.0 kms
We’ll start our season with a though hilly stage! We intend to put a man on the break and protect Kangert as long as we can, but probably we’ll just try to finish in the bigger front group, as I don’t think Kangert will be able to attack in that last climb.
The departure in Palmi and the start of our season!
After some failed attempts, a 12-man breakaway was formed. We succeeded in putting Magno Nazaret between the escapees.
The break got a maximum gap of 9’40” before the pack started to reel them in. The main workers were Lampre, Vacansoleil and Garmin.
As we started today’s main climb, Monte Pontame (16.1 kms, 6.3%), the break still had 3’36” to the pack.
Soonly, the pack had the break in its sight. It wasn’t being a good climb for us, as everybody from our team but Kangert had already hit the wall and Kangert couldn’t stay in the front of the group, so any split would probably get us. At least, we still had Nazaret in the break, and he still had fresh legs.
Surprisingly, the pace maker near the end of the climb was race favorite Matteo Carrara, with Vladimir Efimkin right on his wheel.
The first attacker was Dave Zabriskie. With the high tempo in the peloton, though, he got nowhere. He wasn’t even able to create a new group, and the attack probably busted all his energy. As soon as he stopped attacking, the pack got the main group left from the BotD. Only Reda was 45 seconds in front now.
Carrara was still setting a hard pace, so it didn’t take long for Reda to be reeled in.
Some riders in the front of the pack upped the pace, and some splits occurred. Kangert stayed in one of the groups behind, almost 3 minutes behind the leaders.
E1 - Carrara, Cataldo, Mandri, Marcato, Reda, Zabriskie;
+45” E2 - Efimkin;
+25” E3 - Bernucci;
+17” E4 - (26 riders);
+1’21” E5 - (27 riders - Kangert)
Reda had no energy left and couldn’t keep up with the front group. Carrara continued setting a very high pace. In the descent, he had help from Mandri (AG2R), and I can’t understand why, as AG2R leader Vladimir Efimkin found himself 1’26” behind the leaders.
E1 - Carrara, Cataldo, Mandri, Marcato, Zabriskie;
+49” E2 - Reda;
+37” E3 - Efimkin;
+13” E4 - Niemic;
+37” E5 - (26 riders);
+34” E6 - (27 riders - Kangert);
As the descent had finished, with 5 km to go, Carrara was still setting the pace!! What is this guy on today? We have to remember that he has a team mate in the group, Marco Marcato(Carrara is better, so he is probably the leader). Efimkin, Reda and Niemic where caught by the chasing group.
E1 - Carrara, Mandri, Cataldo, Marcato, Zabriskie;
+1’45” E2 - (27 riders - Niemic, Efimkin, Lorenzetto);
+45” E3 - (19 riders - Kangert);
With the 1 km mark in sight, Zabriskie opened the sprint in the front group. Who would win the stage and the leader jersey?
AG2R’s Mandri answered strongly the move from Zabriskie, taking the lead under the red kite, with Cataldo on his wheel. Carrara didn’t sprint and lost contact to the group.
And Mandri takes today’s stage!! He will wear the leader jersey tomorrow!
Tanel Kangert and Magno Nazaret passed 50th and 47th. Their loss could be of about 3 minutes, but they got the same time as the group at the front, and so our 2 riders lost only 1’19”(s.t. as 6th place) to the winner.
Today winner is Stage Results
1
René Mandri
AG2R La Mondiale
4h37'55
2
Dario Cataldo
Quick·Step
s.t.
3
Marco Marcato
Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
4
David Zabriskie
Garmin - Transitions
s.t.
5
Matteo Carrara
Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
6
Pasquale Muto
Miche
+ 1'19
7
Vladimir Efimkin
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
8
Donato Cannone
Ceramica Flaminia
s.t.
9
Giampaolo Caruso
Team Katusha
s.t.
10
Tiziano Dall'Antonia
Liquigas - Doimo
s.t.
As expected, with equal conditions, our performance today wasn't good. In the end, though, things were great for us as Kangert and Nazaret got the same time as the 6th place. Add in this the -2" bonus Nazaret got on one sprint check in the break, and he stands 10th in GC!!
Without an early training camp, I agree: It will be a hard goal... I think Kangert did his best today, and Magno Prado Nazaret also did well. 10th in GC
@janne_837
very difficult indeed. and a very nice ride by Nazaret
@FreitasPCM
thanks
February 2nd: Giro della Calabria
Stage 2: Cosenza - Crotone, 178.8 kms
So now to an easy flat stage. Almost a 100% flat stage, only for the climbing in the beggining and one or other very small elevations in the middle of the stage. We'll just put a man in the break and wait for the sprint.
Our chosen rider for the BotD was Daniel Rogelin. He didn't enter the initial selection, and for some kms I didn't know if he would make his way into the break, but after some more kms riding alone he entered the 14-man break.
Spoiler
BotD: Davide Bonuccelli, Raffaele Ferrara, Enrico Rossi, Enrico Peruffo, Yuri Metlushenko, Steven Cozza, Volodymyr Zagorodny, Nikolai Trussov, Igor Abakoumov, Stefano Pirazzi, Cristiano Benenati, Paolo Ciavatta, Gianluca Mirenda, Daniel Rogelin
The pack seemed to always have the break under control, and indeed they had. The break got a maximum gap of 6’16” only, and the peloton was in the lead again with 9 km left.
Initially Pagliarini had caught Bennati’s wheel, but the speed from Liquigas train was so high that Pagliarini and Walker were out of energy with about 5 km to go.
As we pass the 5 km sign, there’s no clear sprint train. In fact, almost all the sprinters were badly positioned.
Emanuele Vona is the first to sprint, while the peloton watches as he tries to speed up.
When the pack starts to sprint, Vona has a little gap. But he’s no good sprinter, so few chances for him to pull a trick on all the sprinters.
Robert Hunter and Lloyd Mondory pass flying on the left side to reach Vona in the 1 km banner. Petacchi and McEwen also come fast on the same side. We had Kangert on the front with some energy, so he’s also sprinting(Pagliarini and Walker hit the wall some kms ago).
Very probably one of these three will be the winner! The question is who: Hunter, Mondory or Petacchi?
Petacchi!!
He can celebrate a well deserved win. Mondory and Hunter completed today’s podium. Kangert got a Top 10 with a 9th! Awesome results for him!
Today winner is Stage Results
1
Alessandro Petacchi
Lampre - Farnese Vini
4h10'44
2
Lloyd Mondory
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
3
Robert Hunter
Garmin - Transitions
s.t.
4
Robbie McEwen
Team Katusha
s.t.
5
Sacha Modolo
Colnago - CSF Inox
s.t.
6
Tiziano Dall'Antonia
Liquigas - Doimo
s.t.
7
Sebastian Siedler
Vorarlberg - Corratec
s.t.
8
Emanuele Vona
ISD - Neri
s.t.
9
Tanel Kangert
Rio es Carnival/Seara/Vivo
s.t.
10
Kristjan Koren
Liquigas - Doimo
s.t.
Maybe it was our fault trying to get the wheel of Bennati. I think we should have protected Walker and Pagliarini until about 7km to and then get a wheel even if it wasn't from a good sprinter. We'll try that on stage 4, I think. In the end, Kangert sprinted very well to get a top 10, great results for us considering he isn't a sprinter and there are lots of sprinters better than our guys
@janne_837
yeah, well, but stage 1 could have been a disaster, it wasnt, and stage 2 was a disaster for our sprinters, but kangert saved us something good on the stage
February 3rd: Giro della Calabria
Stage 3: Crotone - Catanzaro, 159.4 kms
Back to the hilly stages! The first half of the stage will be very flat. Then we’ll have some climbings and descents to an uphill finish with a slight uphill sprint. Again, we’re looking to put a man in the break and just try something with Kangert.
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Well, the replay bug(the one you save the replay, but when you load it, it loads one simmed race you didn’t participate) happened to me now, so I got only one screenshot, from the break, so it's useless to post it. I can just say that this would probably be the stage with less screenshots, so you won’t miss much after all.
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6 riders went for the break today. 5 of them stayed in a front group, while 1 stayed a group about 30” behind, and never got to the front group. We didn’t succeed in putting our rider in the BotD.
BotD:
E1 - Davide Ricci Bitti, Krzysztof Szczawinski, Alexandre Usov, Roberto De Patre, Laszló Bodrogi;
E2 - Giuseppe Muraglia.
As the escapees reached the first mountain check, with still 58 kilometers for the line, they had an advantage of about 3’30” to the pack. Basically, what happened today was that no one attacked!! The break was caught with about 15 km to go, if I ain’t mistaken. In the last climbing, Tanel Kangert tried to accelerate 5 times. In none of them, he broke from the peloton. No other rider attacked.
So, the sprint started with 3 km to go. Kangert was very tired because of his attempts to attack. Under the 1 km mark, Daniele Bennati, who had survived the hills(what I’m talking ‘bout? I mean, he has HIL 70, not great, but almost equal to my leader!! =P) was strong and in the lead. 3rd in GC Marco Marcato came behind him, while Bennati’s team mate Peter Sagan came in fast from the left.
With 500 meters to go, Bennati was still in the lead, but Sagan came fast and strong - would they make it a 1-2 for Liquigas? And who would win?
In the line, winning by 1/5 from a wheel, Peter Sagan!! Bennati held second for the Liquiga’s double and Marcato held his 3rd place to get 2nd in GC by time bonifications. Kangert finished 15th, which means we have one flat stage to win if we want to achieve our first goal(and I’m 99% we won’t )
Today winner is Stage Results
1
Peter Sagan
Liquigas - Doimo
4h25'48"
2
Daniele Bennati
Liquigas - Doimo
s.t.
3
Marco Marcato
Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
4
Giairo Ermeti
De Rosa - Stac Plastic
s.t.
5
Przemyslaw Niemiec
Miche
s.t.
6
Romain Feillu
Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
7
Lorenzo Bernucci
Lampre - Farnese Vini
s.t.
8
René Mandri
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
9
Mirco Lorenzetto
Lampre - Farnese Vini
s.t.
10
Matteo Carrara
Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
Yeah, we've tried to attack some times, all of them were a complete fail... this was a very strange stage, nobody attacking even when they should be.. at least I thought they would. Even if we hadn't attacked it would be too much difficult for Kangert to win the massprint. Not much more to talk about the stage, kinda boring from what I expected.
February 4th: Giro della Calábria
Stage 4: Soverato - Reggio di Calabria, 164.6 kms
To finish the 4-day stage race, an easy and calm flat stage. Instead of what we did on Stage 2, we’ll try to protect our sprinters until about 7 km to go to then try to get a good position and wheel. On stage 2 we tried getting a wheel with 12 km to go and our sprinters hit the wall very early. Let’s see if we learnt something with that.
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Ok, so now I’m starting to get really mad with this game. I had it minimized and in the replay, and when I tried to get back, it crashed. Do this happen to you guys that play PCM 10 quite often? Because if yes, then I’ll consider saving the replay right before start taking screenshots. Anyway…
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Again we weren’t able to send a man to the break. It was a very short break, though, with only 3 riders. They were caught with about 10 km to go.
As planned, we protected our sprinters until 7 km to go. After some try, we got a kinda good position for the sprint, and we had 2 riders to sprint. Unfornately, none of them was the kind of guy to do a good sprint in a race of this level.
Under the 1 km banner, 6 sprinters were in very front, almost creating a new group. A brazilian was between these six, but unfornately it wasn’t Pagliarini. It was Garmin’s Murilo Fischer, a rider we intend to bring in the next transfer window if possible Pagliarini was strong in the fight for the 7th place.
In the final 300 meters, we already had the winner: if you see post #13,
janne_837 wrote:
I do not know why, but in my PCM, Petacchi always dominates this race.
It’s not only in his PCM, as Petacchi grabs the stage win making it 2 out of 2 sprint stages. He could even celebrate before passing the line, having more than 2 bikes difference. We got 2 top tens, with Pagliarini in 7th and Walker, 9th. I was hoping for a podium from our Brazilian friend Murilo Fischer, but he got only 4th And again, sorry for no screenshots
Today winner is Stage Results
1
Alessandro Petacchi
Lampre - Farnese Vini
3h41'44"
2
Robbie McEwen
Team Katusha
s.t.
3
Lloyd Mondory
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
4
Murilo Fischer
Garmin - Transitions
s.t.
5
Sebastian Siedler
Vorarlberg - Corratec
s.t.
6
Sacha Modolo
Colnago - CSF Inox
s.t.
7
Luciano Pagliarini
Rio es Carnival/Seara/Vivo
s.t.
8
Manuel Cardoso
Footon - Servetto
s.t.
9
Nicholas Walker
Rio es Carnival/Seara/Vivo
s.t.
10
Oscar Gatto
ISD - Neri
s.t.
Good stage for us, 2 riders in top 10. It looks like we've learned a bit from stage 2 At least, the before-stage tactics worked, and again we couldn't see a clear sprint train, with sprinters moving everywhere as new sprint trains were formed and took the lead.. it was a mess, so MESSSSSPRINT Ok it was a horrible joke sorry
(no podium SS as game crashed, sorry ) General Classification
1
René Mandri
AG2R La Mondiale
16h55'51"
2
Marco Marcato
Vacansoleil Pro Cyling Team
4"
3
David Zabriskie
Garmin - Transitions
20"
4
Matteo Carrara
Vacansoleil Pro Cyling Team
s.t.
5
Peter Sagan
Liquigas - Doimo
1'19"
6
Daniele Bennati
Liquigas - Doimo
1'27"
7
Tiziano Dall'Antonia
Liquigas - Doimo
1'35"
8
Jure Kocjan
CarmioOro NGC
s.t.
9
Giuseppe Palumbo
Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci
s.t.
10
Magno Prado Nazaret
Rio es Carnival/Seara/Vivo
1'37"
Spoiler
11
Daniele Pietropolli
Lampre - Farnese Vini
1'39"
12
Mirco Lorenzetto
Lampre - Farnese Vini
s.t.
13
Tanel Kangert
Rio es Carnival/Seara/Vivo
s.t.
14
Giampaolo Caruso
Team Katusha
s.t.
15
Przemyslaw Niemic
Miche
s.t.
16
Vladimir Efimkin
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
17
José Luis Arrieta
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
18
Romain Feillu
Vacansoleil Pro Cyling Team
s.t.
19
Giairo Ermeti
De Rosa - Stac Plastic
s.t.
20
Giampaolo Cheula
Footon - Servetto
s.t.
21
Cyril Dessel
AG2R La Mondiale
s.t.
22
Marco Frapporti
Colnago - CSF Inox
s.t.
23
Daniele Callegarin
CDC - Cavaliere
s.t.
24
Domenico Pozzovivo
Colnago - CSF Inox
s.t.
25
Emanuele Sella
CarmioOro NGC
s.t.
Points
1
Alessandro Petacchi
Lampre - Farnese Vini
50
2
Lloyd Mondory
AG2R La Mondiale
38
3
Robbie McEwen
Team Katusha
34
4
Sacha Modolo
Colnago - CSF Inox
28
5
René Mandri
AG2R La Mondiale
25
Spoiler
6
Sebastian Siedler
Vorarlberg - Corratec
21
7
Tiziano Dall'Antonia
liquigas - Doimo
20
8
Marco Marcato
Vacansoleil Pro Cyling Team
16
9
Robert Hunter
Garmin - Transitions
16
10
David Zabriskie
Garmin - Transitions
14
Mountain
1
Krzystof Szczawinski
Miche
16
2
Alexandre Usov
ISD Continental Team
16
3
Davide Rici Bitti
ISD - Neri
16
4
Matteo Carrara
Vacansoleil Pro Cyling Team
10
5
René Mandri
AG2R La Mondiale
8
Spoiler
6
Marco Marcato
Vacansoleil Pro Cyling Team
6
7
Peter Sagan
Liquigas - Doimo
6
8
Roberto De Patre
Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci
6
9
Paolo Ciavatta
Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci
6
10
Laszló Bodrogi
Team Katusha
6
Young
1
Peter Sagan
Liquigas - Doimo
16h57'10"
2
Magno Prado Nazaret
Rio es Carnival/Seara/Vivo
18"
3
Tanel Kangert
Rio es Carnival/Seara/Vivo
20"
4
Marco Frapporti
Colnago - CSF Inox
s.t.
5
Eros Capecchi
Footon - Servetto
s.t.
Spoiler
6
Arkaitz Durán
Footon - Servetto
s.t.
7
Wout Poels
Vacansoleil Pro Cyling Team
s.t.
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Mauro Finetto
Liquigas - Doimo
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9
Fabio Felline
Footon - Servetto
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Enrico Peruffo
CarmioOro NGC
3'36"
Team
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Vacansoleil Pro Cyling Team
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Garmin - Transitions
1'19
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AG2R La Mondiale
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Quick-Step
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Ceramifa Flaminia
2'38"
Spoiler
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Footon - Servetto
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Colnago - CSF Inox
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Lampre - Farnese Vini
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Acqua & Sapone - D'Angelo & Antenucci
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CarmioOro NGC
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Hum, a good race for us to open the season, even though we couldn't reach the goal of winning a stage. We knew it would be very hard to accomplish it, especially in a race with only 4 stages. Nothing to worry so. We got out of the race with a Top 10 in GC, a Top 10 in two stages and two podiums in the Young Rider classification. Ok, the Young Rider part is nothing very spetacular, if we had at least won the Young Rider, but...
And it was very strange, when I thought race favorites were V. Efimkin, Matteo Carrara, and others, the ones who did 1-2 on podium were their team mates, René Mandri and Marco Marcato. I was surprised to see the first ones doing the work, I think I understand it now
After 4 stages, our best position was 7th, but we're not stopping here, as the team will participate in Tour of Qatar, starting in 2 days, which offers 5 more flat stages. Take care of the wind and we'll have a chance, as we'll be able to count on our two best sprinters again before they stop for a while. That's all, folks!! (for this race )
Well, not much to talk about this here. A lot of Pro Tour teams participate in Tour of Qatar, but Seara/Vivo will be in here too. As often happens, winner of the Team Time Trial in stage 1 takes overall win, unless a sprinter grabs enough time bonifications to steal the yellow jersey. And, of course, we can’t disconsider the possibility of a breakaway doing it, and if that happens, very probably they’ll be on top of the general classifications, as we have only flat stages. And the possibility of a break doing it is bigger than in other races, because in Tour of Qatar we have this key factor: the wind. Splits in the peloton can occur at any time, which means everybody has to stay alert.
It’s kinda useless to put the profiles here, because everybody knows Qatar's profiles, but let’s not open exceptions so we have a more organized story: =)
The GC Contenders
The contenders are the sprinters + the teams who can do well on the TTT. Logically, this means main favorite here is Saxobank’s Matti Breschel, a good sprinter who will have Fabian Cancellara to help him on the very short TTT. According to the game, other favorites are Edvald Boasson Hagen, Danilo Napolitano, Mark Renshaw and Danilo Hondo.
The Sprinters
Well, the GC Contenders are the sprinters ^^ The list is above here, and I don’t we would have any important name to add.
Rio es Carnival/Seara/Vivo
Team Goals:
- Not be last in TTT;
- 2 out of 6 Top 10 (Pagliarini, Walker).
So, again it should be a very discret participation from our team. We’ll again try to send a man in the break in every stage - wind could help us
Walker and Pagliarini will be lead-out for the other depending on their daily form, as they both have an almost equal fitness. Nilceu dos Santos and Daniel Rogelin would be our best ones to help them in the sprints, but of course they’re not doing it, as we’ll try to get another rider’s wheel. Hugo Vítor is riding for something I don’t know what it is. Tiago Justo and Renato Ruiz are helpers, and finally Flavio Silverio will just make sure everybody gets their water bottles under those high temperatures we’ll have in Qatar.
1. Nicholas Walker
2. Nilceu dos Santos
3. Tiago Justo
4. Luciano Pagliarini
5. Daniel Rogelin
6. Renato Ruiz
7. Flavio Silverio
8. Hugo Vítor
I intended to restart the story with the same team, when I found the problem that the team wasn't in the PCM.daily's DBs. In fact, they didn't exist irl anymore, financial problems. Shocked with the fact they weren't in the DB, I initially had 3 ideas in mind:
And again, sorry for no screenshots 
