roturn, we'll still be developing plenty of talents, but this change signifies a change, we will want to contend for promotion next year, and hopefully with Quickstep on board we can do so
tsmoha Thanks, and not definitely. Cobbles are big target, but all round team will be what we want to achieve. And there are rumours of Morton missing Oz-land, however it would only spring true at the right price, very right price
alexkr00 Nah, our goal is to develop the successor to Boonen
CountArach Cheers, definitely look into it, however it depends how big we will treat if we want to promote on not, if we do, keeping Serry, Vanbilsen or Lijke could be vital since they will be useful domestiques / stage hunters.
And thanks Dippofix
Team Goals
[HC] E3 Prijs
Win - Failed (3rd)
[C1] 5 Jours de Dunkerque
Win - Failed (3rd)
[HC] Criterium Hainleite
Top 5 - Failed (8th)
[C1] Bahir Dan
Top 5 - Achieved
Africa Tour Standings
Top 5 - Achieved
Looking trough our goals let's begin with the odd one out, the Africa Tour Standings was definitely a goal out of blue, it was the only one I was kinda hoping was achievable out the Rankings goals and due to Armee's amazing stage race victory at Tropicale Amissa Bongo which is probably one of our memorable season highlights we somehow achieved it.
The next 4 goals have one thing in common - cobbles. It was a safe bet for us to go through all cobbled races as our goals since we knew we would get a cobbled leader for sure.Bahir Dan was a first cobbled race of the season and great one at that, Baugnies barely made Top 5, but we did and completed another goal.
The next three goals were all close to success, but we failed to achieve them, still we will get some money out of those races thankfully. Surprisingly in the main cobbled race in PCT, E3 it wasn't Baugnies with his 8th position, but Vanbilsen who had a decent first season in our team!
One thing for sure, Baugnies suffered in his sprints, but as the team made decision not to spend some money last year which should be mostly brought over this year in addition to new year's budgets, Baugnies will be trained in sprinting, hopefully it will pay off
In conclusion, 2/5 with other 3 goals close to completion is not bad at all, but not great either, an average result, however with addition to a safe position all year in the division it has been a very successful season for the team.
Coming up next are our biggest highlights of the season and the best performers.
Summarized below are almost all our noteworthy results from the season back. We come away with 10 wins and 27 podium places overall. The 10 wins is certainly a decent result in our first year, nothing stunning, however it has to be pointed out we had no real stage hunter nor any sprinters, however Lijke did come away with one sprint win.
Baugnies was certainly disappointing in terms of wins, but he did well to place himself in all his target races quite well, with bit of sprint training, hopefully he can achieve even better results.
Florentino Marquez was our highest scoring rider and the result show it, dependable and with two stage race victories, a good year for the Spaniard.
Marc Goos and Pavel Potocki took two break wins for us, great to see from our talents, especially Potocki who is just a trainee! Below is our season in pictures!
Marquez first win for the team on his way to win Vuelta Tachira
Lijke beats on-form Hoffman in his own backyard to take surprise win!
Sander Armee shocks the favoruites to take the win!
And eventually to a vital GC win in Tropicale Bongo
It took him a while but Baugnies finally wins his classic in USA
Potocki was first to attack and first to finish, tremendous by the trainee
Vuelta al Tachira
Florentino Marquez
Tour of South Africa
Nick Van Der Lijke
Tropicale Bongo
Sander Armee
Tour of Japan
Tour Czech Republic
Tour of Eritrea
Tour of Battenkill
Pavel Potocki
Jours Dunkerque
Tour of Faso
Tour of Beijing
Lachlan Morton
Bahir Dar
Strade Bianchi
GP di Lugano
Tour of Taiwan
Rogaland GP
Criterium Hainleite
GP Sudkarnten
Tour of Vineyards
Zagreb - Ljubljana
