Wow great report! Vague back on top in fine style.
Can we have a 6-8th place count please ?
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
Came earlier then expected and I missed tactics, probably wouldn't of made a difference. Thanks for the report , 4th isn't bad especially on ice, I just didn't realise the conditions were that bad and thought he could win.
Uh oh to find a positive, erm.. Well Matt finished the race
Yeah Francis was Vaguely untouchable today, not much to add.
Oh found another positive! Matt now is in a battle for the 4th place after losing 3rd in a single race! Cornelis wil be tough to stay ahead of but with a condition similar to Aosta all is possible.
And proving that these two weeks of December were the real Superprestige weeks, the classification right before Lisbon, just 2 in game weeks ago:
Superprestige
Ranking
Name
Points
1
Francis N. Vague
42
2
Elliot Cook
42
3
Matt Mazzarelli
37
4
Sylvain Lipawsky
30
5
Jan Soucek
30
6
Christian Schiltz
30
7
Baris Dao
26
8
Hafthor Eldfjallsson
24
9
Lachy Bauer
22
10
Dries Cornelis
12
11
Rudy Verboven
11
12
Fred Markson
11
13
Tariq Faizullah
8
14
Milan Listerijn
8
15
Josiah Bennett
6
16
Shay Gormley
4
17
Karol Konva
4
18
Iban Etxeberdea
4
19
Nic Hashir
3
20
Naveed Alinejad
3
21
Michael Bollinger
3
compared to:
Ranking
Name
Points
1
Francis N. Vague
97
2
Elliot Cook
85
3
Sylvain Lipawsky
71
4
Matt Mazzarelli
66
5
Dries Cornelis
65
6
Christian Schiltz
61
7
Hafthor Eldfjallsson
44
8
Baris Dao
42
9
Milan Listerijn
34
10
Jan Soucek
30
11
Iban Etxeberdea
27
12
Fred Markson
25
13
Lachy Bauer
23
14
Mikel Hammarling
21
15
Michael Bollinger
18
16
Shay Gormley
16
17
Naveed Alinejad
16
18
Eddie Goldenberg
13
19
Blazej Dobransky
12
20
Rudy Verboven
11
21
Tariq Faizullah
10
22
Karol Konva
10
23
Ferdi Kloet
10
24
Gregory Bernard
7
25
Estifanos Mutahi
7
26
Josiah Bennett
6
27
Max Power
5
28
Nic Hashir
3
29
Timi Kokkonen
2
30
Camilo Osorio
2
31
Dirk Accostella
1
Can open a discussion; are 4 Superprestige races in 2 weeks too many? If you have a bad shape for 2 weeks, you're out of the trophy. Or is that the name of the game? We'll have to see for next year's calendar if the UCI will change it
But then you can argue that to win the world championships you have to peak on one day. So as long as the other classifications have more spread out races, then I think it's just part of the game.
Oh and to round off this long, long day :p
A final small piece of information. Halfway the season, this is the battle for the World Championships spot (top 30 gets to race):
25
Jan Soucek
370
26
Ronnie Hira
333
27
Karol Konva
327
28
Arda Akdeniz
280
29
Ferdi Kloet
278
30
Gregory Bernard
260
31
Mustafa Moli
242
32
Thijs Van Lookeren
212
33
Camilo Osorio
201
34
Guido Visconti
188
35
Josiah Bennett
178
Riders in green seem safe, for now.
Riders in orange might show a nice battle to reach the top 30.
Riders in red need to get their act together if they want to qualify for the Words.
Josiah still wants his arguments against the rule heard by the UCI, he just sent a letter off to be considered.
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
I like the Superprestige December very much and in fact I hope it stays this way. It's nice to have a focus on something and have some real gamechanger weeks whilst most of the other months follow a regular order.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
Wow, big thumbs up for Shonak as he managed to update almost all of his semi-active riders right now. (Besides Vague and the retired Dobransky,) we now have seen pieces on Welling, Van Overberghe and Visconti.
Wonderful reads, all of them, and I thought that deserved a special mention. Seeing they were all written this evening!
Cool report, I see that there's a noticeable lack of action without Matt
Nice to see Sylvain taking it at home, and even though it's always funny to see Cook 2nd once again, it's a bit of a bitter sweet for some reason. Always look forward to the Cookie Monster's cocky blog posts
Great report Ian! Wondering when Milan will stop getting in the wrong end of the top 10. Every single race!
Reminds me of the sprint (3:40) in this video:
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
Okay, slight drop in pace, sorry for that
Hope to get the next preview up here today. But funny story, been busy because later today I have to perform with our band at a press conference never done that before, so with lots of media there, it'll be interesting and worth rehearsing for
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Thanks for the report 
, 4th isn't bad especially on ice, I just didn't realise the conditions were that bad and thought he could win. 
