Nah, i'm happy with another stage win, 3 riders in the top 10, points classification, a podium on every stage and 3th in the team classification.
Now Transfaaragan GP, rly looking forward to this one as well.
Kirchen should also be leading the CT tour now, i think. Don't know where Ignatiev is, but i don't think he has more points than Kirchen atm. Always nice to see a rider do good.
Edit: Kirchen also gives me a nice amount of stage wins. 6 already, 1 classic.
Edited by Kami on 06-12-2010 20:46
Five teams... it doesn't take long to realise that everyone wins in a race like that! Tinkoff have had a good month but were the 'losers' here but even in that they managed a reasonable points haul. Wiggle will actually increase their points ratio despite an average race. Bacardi bookended the tour. Pendletons are well on their way towards promotion contention one suspects and Milka are perhaps moving up towards a decent overall position.
I'm happy with the perfomance of my team in this race. Efimkin has his first victory of this year, as like Stybar, I got nice pocket of the points here.. Simply, this was really good race for Milka, the best so far this year.
fenian_1234 wrote:
Not related to this, but I think a team like Vesuvio should have a team at this race. I've suggested it before - the Pro Tour teams should be able to mix a little with the Conti teams in their home races.
I have had these thoughts too, but it raises some questions:
1) What would Vesuvio gain from this?
2) Would the other teams race it knowing that they had to face Vesuvio?
3) Would Vesuvio have to use up race days?
It seems like a good idea to give Protour teams a chance to race in these sorts of races, but I am not sure the Continental tour would work very well if you had Pro Tour teams in some but not all c1 races.
I will post a slight variation on this suggestion in the ideas forum and wait for a combination of SotD, rjc and SN to shoot it down in flames
I'm not against the idea, I do however feel that every PT team should be awarded 2-3 CT races to do. And then what should be the purpose? The fun of it? Money? I'm not sure, but I'm never against the fact that I could do more races. I would be happy to gain some EXP points from some CT races, and then put in a leader or 2 if it doesn't mean that he will lose racedays...
