[img-r]https://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x323/tsmoha/Logo_NRS_2_zps760f003c.png[/img-r]What's this story about/ It's neither a team nor a one-rider story. It's a Series story. While the focus will be on specific teams or riders though.
ManGame-related/ Most of you know Daily's ManGame. The initial plan was to write a story about a stagiaire on my team Oz, therefore the MG related database. For example: Anthony Giacoppo won't ride the NRS like irl, as he signed with CT-team Risa in the ManGame.
Afraid?/ Don't be. The MG-relation ain't too important for his story.

Database/ Custom ("based on" SportingNonsense's MG-DB)
Difficulty/ I will run the Series like the MG: as a reporter only
Stages/ made by me (interested in helping out? PM me)
Shirts/ made by miggi133 (huge thanks!)

MG-managers' infos/ Don't worry. This ain't about scouting the few free agents, who are both in the MG-database and in this story (like Nathan Earle). I've changed most of their stats in order to balance this NRS (like Luke Davison, who sucks in the MG, but won the NRS last year).

indicates Victoria State Road Series-events
indicates NRS-events
indicates South Australian events
indicates other Australian/Oceanian events
o indicates "link available"
x indicates "not"

Date	Event	Preview	Winner
14.4.	Mt Baw Baw Alpine Resort Classic	o	Earle
21.4.	Mersey Valley Tour	o	Semple
27.4	Tour of the South West	o	Wurf
2.5.	National Herald Sun Tour	o	P. vd Ploeg
9.5.	Tour of Toowoomba	o	O'Brien
11.5.	Phillip Island Grand Prix	x	D'Ambrosio
24.5.	Adelaide Tour	o	Donnelly
19.6.	Preston Mountain Classic	o	Earle
20.6.	North West Tour	o	O'Brien
31.7.	Tour of Gippsland	o	Evans
14.8.	Tour of the Great South Coast	x	x
24.8.	Sam Miranda Road Race	x	x
3.9.	Tour of the Murray River	x	x
20.9.	National Capital Tour	o	x
22.9.	Midlands Tour	x	x
25.9.	Launceston to New Norfolk	o	x
29.9.	Tour of Tasmania	x	x
12.10.	Melbourne to Warrnambool	x	x
13.10.	Shipwreck Coast	o	x
26.10.	Grafton to Inverell	x	x
30.10.	Bowden Elite Team Series (10 rds)	x	x
29.11.	Tour of Bright (Final)	x	x
20.12.	Australian Criterium Champs	x	x
30.01.	National Track Championships	x	x

INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS/

Rk	Name	Team	Pts
1	Mark O'Brien	Budget Forklifts	213
2	Adam Semple	Satalyst Giant Racing Team	178
3	Jack Haig	Huon Salmon-Genesys	167
4	Aaron Donnelly	Huon Salmon-Genesys	162
5	Paul Van der Ploeg	Satalyst Giant Racing Team	157
6	Nathan Earle	Huon Salmon-Genesys	128
7	Neil Van der Ploeg	search2retain p/b health.com.au	115
8	Michael Cupitt	Budget Forklifts	103
9	Sam Rutherford	GPM Data#3	87
10	Eric Sheppard	search2retain p/b health.com.au	77
11	Harry Carpenter	Euride Racing	63
12	Ben Grenda	Oz Cycling Development Team	58
13	Darren Lapthorne	Drapac Cycling	50
	Marc Williams	Budget Forklifts	50
15	Bernard Sulzberger	Drapac Cycling	46
16	Alex Clements	Huon Salmon-Genesys	45
17	Karl Evans	Budget Forklifts	33
18	Jai Crawford	Huon Salmon-Genesys	27
19	James Hepburn	GPM Data#3	26
	Nathan Elliott	Target Trek Racing Team	26

TEAMS RANKINGS/

Rk	Team	Pts
1	Budget Forklifts	443
2	Huon Salmon-Genesys Wealth Advisers Pro Cycling Team	404
3	Satalyst Giant Racing Team	331
4	search2retain p/b health.com.au	281
5	Drapac Cycling	263
6	GPM Data#3	245
7	Jayco/Apollo VIS Men’s Road Team	179
8	Euride Racing	136
9	African Wildlife Safaris Cycling Team	116
10	Oz Cycling Development Team	115
11	Target Trek Racing Team	75
12	Charter Mason / Drapac Development Team	65
13	Bianchi Lotto Arbitrage	55
14	Racing Kangaroos Cycling Development Program	38
15	Veneziano Blefari Cycling Team	30
16	Suzuki Bontrager	28
17	Downer EDI Mining National Cycling Team	25
18	Data#3 Cisco Racing Team	20
19	SUVelo Racing	15
20	Pro Team Downunder	10

#1/ Preparing for the Baw Baw Alpine Resort Classic
#2/ Keep this pace..
#3/ So close to "Woohaa!" in Toowoomba!
#4/ Fear and Loathing in the North West..

#1/ Short introduction and season goals
#2/ Climbing the Mt Baw Baw
#3/ Tour of the South West recap
#4/ Philip Island GP and a day for the sprinters

James Meadley - Short review of the Bay Classics 2013
Nick D'Ambrosio - About winning the Philip Island GP!

The Subaru National Road Series is the feature series on the Australian road racing calendar, with teams and individuals competing for national recognition.

“2012 was a year of strong growth for the Series, with record numbers of teams and riders while highlights of each race were broadcast on official broadcaster SBS,� said Sean Muir, Cycling Australia’s National Manager – Sport.

“Now the 2013 Subaru NRS includes races in every state and the ACT, delivering for the first time a true national footprint.

“When pulling the series together we are always focused on delivering increased safety and consistency and we’re very excited about a record number of events and race days on the calendar,� Mr Muir added.



Honour Roll (last 5 years)/

Year	Winner	Current team
2012	Luke Davison	Drapac
2011	Nathan Haas	Aker, ProTour (as loanee)
2010	Patrick Shaw	Genesys
2009	Will Clarke
2008	David Pell

The key objectives of the Cycling Victoria State Road Series are:

- To raise the standard of competition amongst Victoria’s cyclists of all ability and age categories
- To provide an underpinning series of events to the National Road Series
- To provide a calendar of events which are of high interest to participants.

Jakstar22 wrote:
Looks great. Very nice intro. Looking forward to this. Is there someone with the last name Carman on Erdunger in your db?

tsmoha wrote:


Trent Carman, yes. Guess he's the one you know irl?

Jesleyh wrote:
This seems very interesting, I must say.
I have to get used to the fact that you use the Man-game DB, but it doesn't make a difference to me, I don't know most of those Australian cyclists anyway

tsmoha wrote:
@sutty: Thanks!

@Jakstar: Nice! Then he may be one rider to focus on, right?

@cunego: Thanks for the kind words! Good to see you here and you'll enjoy this hopefully.