Pos		Team	Total
1		In-n-Out Racing p/b Auchan	316
2		Eddie Stobart Pro Cycling	245
3		Team Vontobel	230
4		Fletcher-Garneau	210
5		Team TomTom	144
6		Team ASDA-Savers	138
7		Bank of Ireland - Irish Cycling	136
8		Evonik - Signal Iduna	119
9		Team Nordeus	115
10		Grupo Nutresa	113
11		Team Ameriabank-Novatek	105
12		Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team	103
13		Azteca-NBCSN	82
14		Siam Cement - Lenovo	74
15		Risa - Ergon	70
16		Wounded Warrior	64
17		Team Chiquita-Universal	62
18		Team Live Nation	47
19		Maloja Mountain Nomads	41
20		Bonsucro	36
21		Sauber Petronas	25
22		Team Carlsberg - Danske Bank	24
23		Dell - 361° Racing	20
24		Alpina - Avianca	14
25		ONCE-Eroski Cycling Team	4
26		Euskaltel - Bavaria	0

Jesleyh wrote:
8th in the ranking is good.
Stoltz

Tour de San Luis

We come here with a bunch of jokers. Gert Joeaar should be able to get a good stage result in the time trial and this could be the foundation for a good GC result although the climb on stage 5 seems to be way to hard for him. Bissinger is allowed to attack often and Dupont could be a joker in the sprints although he is far from being a favourite for a podium.
Aim: Top 3 in TT, Top 5 on another stage.

Next up is the season opener for Geschke in The Sean Kelly Classic on Seskin Hill. Of course, his lieutenant Guillaume Boivin is his leadout man in case of a sprint as in every of his races but 3 one day classics. Bissinger and Vosekalns are important helpers but they are allowed to attack if they have good legs. Aim: Top 10.

Tour de Beauce

When most of our guys race in Algarve there is a second, quite similar race with a TT, hills and some sprinting possibilties. Since Geschke and Joeaar are in Portugal we decided to let Bissinger lead here. With a decent TT and decent hill stats he can be a dangerous rider if he decides to attack in the right spots. Teruel and Dupont are our duo for the sprints.
Aim: 2x BotD

We start here without every expectations and take every point we can get.
Perhaps Stoltz can surprise everyone with another good result after Great Ocean Road Classic and Benelux Challenge.
Aim: Score one point.

A full calender for our team and the first more important races for our team. Geschke will start in Ireland and in Algarve. We are curious to see how he performs there as this will be a good indicator for what to come.

We could celebrate a lot of great results from some of our riders in San Luis and especially, we could celebrate our first professional win. It is only a KoM classification but we are sure that bigger wins will come soon.

admirschleck wrote:
1:0

When we came to Portugal we were still winless except a KoM classification win by Vosekalns in San Luis. We came here very optimisticly and had some big expectations:



We planned with a great leadout for him and hoped for a stage win but the international press wasn't as optimistic. However, we decided to work hard all day long to weaken our rivals. We liked to see Vontobel and Bank of Ireland helping us to even force a selection. The three teams of us completely controlled the early break so that we came to a mass sprint. Despite of some critical experts we managed to build the strongest leadout train. In fact it was even the only one.



After great efforts from Boivin and Saramotins Geschke could open his sprint from the front...



.. and could hold on to the first win of team's history.



And for the second stage the plan was the same one than on stage one: Pacing over the hills and get a strong leadout.
This worked so strong that some strong contenders like Duggan.



Again, we could control the break and build a leadout. This time Azteca built one, too and we all know how strong their leadouts can be!



However, they could not compete with our one as we crushed the competition once again!



Only Vontobel's Lang could follow Geschke when he started his rocket ..



.. but he had no chance to win this.



Unfortunately, the officials did not give any time gap. Not understandable if you asked me but they tend to make those mistakes those who followed the tale of Quintana in EPIC Giro will know).

This race was already going to be a highlight race for us but perhaps it could go even better? At least we decided to try it. One - and only one - team controled the peleton all day long: We.



But when the final hill came, we changed the strategy. Instead of keeping everyone together Geschke was told to follow the attacks.



Together with Moinard and Marentes they got a good gap. Only Mendes could bridge that gap



In the end, Mendes was the strongest but Geschke finished on the podium - again!



A bit behind, Gert Joeaar could finish the stage with the biggest group. This meant that the situation fo our team was very interesting. Should the TT end up with very small time gaps then Geschke has a chance to defend a great GC position while huge differences would help Joeaar to get into the Top 10.



Eventually, Joeaar would finish this TT as 8th (13th in GC) and Geschke would end up 6th in GC. If the gap on the second stage would have been rated as such he would have finished inside the top 5.

But nevertheless, a fantastic race for us.

Media reactions:

Instead of writing another wall of text saying how great this race was for us I only want to say two stats:
143 Points (123 from Geschke) and 35,6 PPRD

@547984: I loved the reactions, too. Especially after the different opinion of Roturn (Seriously, if someone has a different opinion on race expectations in the future please share it!) it was very cool to see how this race turned out and the reactions of everyone.
And i agree with you the race was amazing for us.

jt1109 wrote:
Boivon ride in Seskin will brilliant and the follow up with Geshcke in Algarve will help you in the rankings no doubt. Just hope Koch can do a big ride one day now for me haha.

Ton1Mart1n wrote:
Do you have the pack for this team?

Reactions:

So the win goes to Evonik today as Saramotins is able to celebrate his solo ride early. Great result for him. And Dupont takes the lead behind. Can he make a 1-2 for Evonik? Yes! What a race for the team. Race commentator

Wow Evonik... PrivatBank - Nemiroff

Huge result for Evonik though. Congrats! Risa-Ergon

Gratz to Evonik, was a perfectly executed race by them! Team Vontobel

Gratz to Evonik! Azteca

Congratulations to Evonik on a Great 1-2 Eddie Stobart

Fuck you! Wes (9) - Cedric Lebris - fan

I stood right there where Saramotins attacked and cheered for him. What a great effort he did to achieve this win! Didi (62) - German Cycling Fan


We want to thank everybody who commented on this big win for us!

I'm glad that you liked it! Let's hope that I will get more big wins in the future so that I have to post those reactions again!