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Trek Factory Racing is a professional road bicycle racing team licensed in the USA. Formerly Radioshack-Nissan, in 2014, Trek will take over the ownership of the team and its ProTeam License.



The team has an all-around oriented squad, with some big names in it. Some old guns, some of the biggest talents in the cycling world - really interesting squad.

As one of currently most popular and strongest riders in the world, Fabian Cancellara is leading this squad. Of course, he's not the only leader of the squad. Depending on terrain and field, the team has 3 leaders in each one of it.

[img-l]https://img542.imageshack.us/img542/7913/dnjn.png[/img-l][img-l]https://www.dodaj.rs/f/3q/lV/OYtl6Xo/blankspace.png[/img-l] Fabian Cancellara (18th March, 1981)
There's just no words that can describe this guy. So powerful, so successful but besides all of that, great human. Fabian won pretty much everything he wanted to win last season and he'll have tough job to defend that. We're sure he can own spring classics once again.


[img-l]https://i.imgur.com/LWQtJBd.png[/img-l][img-l]https://www.dodaj.rs/f/3q/lV/OYtl6Xo/blankspace.png[/img-l] Andy Schleck (10th June, 1985)
Andy was of most promising rider in the cycling world, but unfortunately he had a really bad crash in Dauphine, few years ago and he's still recovering. We still believe Andy can reach his past level and become one of best cyclists in the world. Form is temporary class is permanent.


[img-l]https://i.imgur.com/QctiWSt.png[/img-l][img-l]https://www.dodaj.rs/f/3q/lV/OYtl6Xo/blankspace.png[/img-l] Giacomo Nizollo (30th January, 1989)
Surely one of the most promising sprinters currently and probably the best Italian sprinter at the moment. Giacomo and Danny van Poppel are just the future of Trek's sprint and we're sure both of them, Giacomo especially can get some really good results in this and next few years.

Note* - Only podium places are posted below as results. Wins are in bold.

Date	Rider	Race	Cat.	Place
11/01	J. Sergent	New Zealand ITT	NC	1st
15/01	C. Watson	Australia RR	NC	2nd
15/01	J. Sergent	New Zealand RR	NC	1st
22/01	F. Felline	Tour de San Luis	2.1	1st
22/01	D. van Poppel	Santos Tour Down Under	UWT	2nd
23/01	D. van Poppel	Santos Tour Down Under	UWT	3rd
24/01	H. Zubeldia	Tour de San Luis	2.1	1st
25/01	M. Busche	Santos Tour Down Under	UWT	1st
27/01	H. Zubeldia	Tour de San Luis GC	2.1	1st
02/02	B. van Poppel	GP Costa della Etruschi	1.1	1st
06/02	G. Nizzolo	Tour of Qatar	2.HC	3rd
07/02	J. Stuyven	Tour of Qatar	2.HC	1st
07/02	D. Hondo	Tour of Qatar	2.HC	2nd
11/02	D. van Poppel	Tour of Oman	2.HC	3rd
12/02	F. Cancellara	Tour of Oman	2.HC	2nd
12/02	F. Felline	Tour of Oman	2.HC	3rd
13/02	D. van Poppel	Tour of Oman	2.HC	3rd
14/02	A. Schleck	Tour of Oman	2.HC	3rd
15/02	F. Cancellara	Tour of Oman	2.HC	1st
21/02	B. van Poppel	Tour de Langkawi	2.HC	2nd
23/02	R. Kiserlovski	Tour de Langkawi	2.HC	1st
23/02	R. Zoidl	Tour de Langkawi	2.HC	3rd
23/02	F. Cancellara	Omloop Het Nieuwsblad	1.HC	1st
24/02	B. van Poppel	Tour de Langkawi	2.HC	3rd
24/02	G. Nizzolo	Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne	1.1	2nd
24/02	F. Cancellara	GP di Lugano	1.1	1st
25/02	R. Kiserlovski	Tour de Langkawi	2.HC	1st
27/02	D. van Poppel	Le Samyn	1.1	2nd
02/03	E. Alafaci	Tour de Langkawi	2.HC	2nd
02/03	R. Kiserlovski	Tour de Langkawi GC	2.HC	1st
03/03	F. Cancellara	Paris - Nice	UWT	2nd
06/03	F. Cancellara	Paris - Nice	UWT	1st
08/03	G. Nizzolo	Tirreno - Adriatico	UWT	3rd
10/03	F. Cancellara	Paris - Nice	UWT	2nd
10/03	F. Cancellara	Paris - Nice GC	UWT	3rd
13/03	F. Cancellara	Nokere Koerse	1.1	1st
13/03	G. Nizzolo	Nokere Koerse	1.1	2nd
17/03	F. Cancellara	Milano - San Remo	UWT	1st
18/03	R. Kiserlovski	Volta Ciclista a Catalunya	UWT	2nd
22/03	F. Cancellara	E3 Harelbeke	UWT	1st
23/03	A. Schleck	Volta Ciclista a Catalunya	UWT	3rd
24/03	G. Nizzolo	Gent Wevelgem	UWT	2nd
24/03	F. Cancellara	Gent Wevelgem	UWT	3rd
24/03	J. Arredondo	Volta Ciclista a Catalunya	UWT	3rd
30/03	D. van Poppel	Volta Limburg Classic	1.1	2nd
31/03	F. Cancellara	Ronde van Vlaanderen	UWT	1st

Thanks everyone. I really hope i can keep this going at least a bit longer than some of my previous attempts. Also, calendar (3rd post) is updated.

547984 - All of these "awesome graphics" took me like 10 minutes max. , so i guess it's still harder to get over 10 pages than to do them. At least for me.

Thanks everyone, the report of NC ITT's will be up in few minutes.

Ian Butler - Thanks alot. I really hope i can do that with this one. Take care, mate!

Aand here we are, just few hours before first official races of the season, 2 NCs on the Australian continent, Australia and New Zealand NC. We have a guys for both of these competitions and that's the reason why we're here , writing this blog. So, nothing to wait for, let's start with presentation.



The Australia ITT NC this year will be one of most interesting ITT NC routes. It actually has a quite long, but not that steep hill, somewhere at the middle of the route, which will surely decide the winner. Some of the favourites for this race are: R. Porte, C. Evans, R. Dennis...

Our only guy here is newcomer in our team, Calvin Watson and to be honest, expectations are not high, since this surely isn't one of his favourites disciplines.



Unlike the Australia ITT NC, the New Zealand one is pan flat, without any climbs or hills on its terrain. 2 of our guys are from this exotic country and their names are H. Roulston and J. Sergent. J. Sergent is top favourite for this one and we hope he can achieve the win there. Besides him, some of main favourites for a win are J. Bauer, S. Bewley.

These 2 should be very interesting to follow, so stay tuned for the report. First race is about to start, so be prepared.

See ya soon, DS of Trek FR

The first race is Australia ITT NC and it's about to start. Calvin is in last 10 on the start schedule, so we'll have to wait for his results a bit.




Right at the start, one of top favourites for a podium and maybe even a win, Michael Rogers appeared. His time was clearly the best at all checkpoints, but he made huge progress on the hill and that was noticable.



After Rodgers, the next a bit better guy was Luke Durbridge. As one of best Orica's time trialists, his mission was to get the noticable result. It never looked like that in the race. On the first checkpoint he got pretty big gap and it was only get bigger and bigger later. Bad day for him.



After few unimportant riders, C. Evans was the next favourite to start. As good climber and time trialist, this route could suit him perfectly. Cadel was really strong, but at the end, he finished 10 seconds behind Rogers. Michael was still on top!



Calvin is next one. He's really stressed right now since this is his first race in colours of Trek racing and he's the our only guy. Well, that left the mark on the final results, since he finished as 40th.



Only 2 riders left - Richie Porte and Rohan Dennis, two probably biggest favourites for getting the national jersey ,this year. Richi was first one to start. Great position on bike was indicating that he's going to get really good result there. And he did, he finished 1'05" in front of Rogers. What a show of strenght!



R. Dennis was the last one on start. Can this youngster beat the time of R. Porte? He looked calm all the time and his tactic was getting the speed on flat part, since he have no chances on hill against all of these climbers. It looked all good and he had an advantage until the 2nd checkpoint where he had the same time as Richie.



Now, it looked like he's slightly losing the energy. And it was like that. At the end, Dennis finished as 2nd, 18th seconds behind the Richie.

1	Richie Porte	Team Sky	1h00'43
2	Rohan Dennis	Garmin Sharp	+ 18
3	Michael Rogers	Tinkoff - Saxo	+ 1'05
4	Damien Howson	Orica GreenEdge	+ 1'10
5	Brett Lancaster	Orica GreenEdge	+ 1'12
6	Luke Durbridge	Orica GreenEdge	+ 1'14
7	Cadel Evans	BMC Racing Team	+ 1'15
8	Cameron Meyer	Orica GreenEdge	+ 1'32
9	Michael Hepburn	Orica GreenEdge	+ 1'41
10	William Clarke	Drapac Pro Cycling	+ 1'45

2 days later, it was time for New Zealand ITT NC. Our hopes are high and we think our guys can meet the expectations.




Not many riders on startlist, really. After few of them , our first rider H. Roulston started. He was actually pretty good, since he set best provisional time.

Sam Bewley was first one of 3 favourites to start. Bewley looked good at the first part of the race, but something strage happened then. He just started losing perfect bike position, started accelerating and slowing down which leaded to a bit worse result than expected.



Jack Bauer was the next one. In an interview before the race, he said that he's aiming for the win here, so we kept an eye on him. Nothing so impressive, since he even finished few seconds behind Bewley.



And our rider, Jesse Sergent was the last one to start. He looked absolutely perfect before , on and after the race which was big indication on what we're seeing. He got the win with about half a minute of advantage and made us proud.



It's time to celebrate! Here's the photo of Jesse on the podium, chatting with these beautiful podium girls, next to him.

1	Jesse Sergent	Trek Factory Racing	56'31
2	Sam Bewley	Orica GreenEdge	+ 27
3	Jack Bauer	Garmin Sharp	+ 41
4	James Oram	Bissell Development Team	+ 1'16
5	Tom Scully	Madison Genesis	+ 2'00
6	George Bennett	Cannondale	+ 2'30
7	Hamish Schreurs	Veranclassic - Doltcini	+ 2'35
8	Hayden Roulston	Trek Factory Racing	+ 2'36
9	Shane Archbold	An Post - Chain Reaction	+ 2'39
10	Alex Frame	Development Team Giant - Shimano	+ 2'46