Fiedler was our greatest desire to strengthen the team and this has been achieved. The best of this division in his specialty has everything to achieve several victories for the team during the season and will be very important in achieving of at least 2 goals this year.
Kupfernagel can also have a good year, some of the best sprinters left this division and although there are still plenty of competition I think this year may have more chances of getting wins
Haussler is another one of reinforcements and the hope is that its ability to overcome the hills bring him some advantage over other sprinters. Probably will not be capable of many victories but it sure will be a regular in the top10 of stages.
McEvoy Competition is increasing but contrary to the previous year is not used much as a leader in classics because this is not his best role. Flat stages with complicated arrivals should be his best way to gain points throughout the year

Vakoc It's our best man for the hills, not being the best in this specialty, still gives guarantees of being able to get some interesting results.
Gerdmann Our old leader is in a downward phase of his career and will no longer be able to walk along with the best but may come to surprise in a few stages especially if he decide to leave for the breaks.
Silvestre It will be important in the role of launch our leaders, until I can also come to have the opportunity to lead the team
Cabreira In his last year at the highest level just hopes it can repeat the previous season. Breaks Breaks and Breaks They are its greatest chance to win points

Balloni and Barth should be able to win some points in Time trials, as well as help the team whenever a TTT
Dyball and Chiarello Two cyclists for the future but have already a good basis and should be able to go gaining some points throughout the season
The rest of the team should also be able to get scoring from time to time, all points will be important in the struggle for maintenance. But the main role will be to help leaders

roturn wrote:
Certainly am no fan of your TT riders in the Dauphine.
But let`s try to beat all those PT riders then.

Team:

Danilo Kupfernagel	74FL	80SP	80AC
Heinrich Haussler	73FL	80SP	76AC
Fabio Silvestre	74FL	76SP	77AC
Marcel Barth	73FL	72SP	77AC
Markus Eichler	74FL	70SP	71AC
Rafael Silva	66FL	72SP	75AC
Alfredo Balloni	73FL	67AC	72FT
Benjamin Dyball	70FL	72AC	69FT

After the surprise victory of Kupfernagel last year, the team had to be present at this opening race of the PCT. But this time there is an objective to be achieved, the top 5 is the required minimum as it is one of the goals of the season.
For it will be present perhaps the best team possible for this type of terrain.The competition is quite strong and favoritism will not be on our side but still I think we have strong chances of achieving the desired top 5

Team:

Jonathan McEvoy	76HI	75SP	79AC
Petr Vakoc	77HI	70SP	72AC
Heinrich Haussler	70HI	80SP	76AC
Linus Gerdmann	75HI	76ST	77RS
Daniel Eduardo Silva	72HI	73ST	71RS
Mario Costa	73HI	71ST	70RS
William Chiarello	72HI	71AC	72FT
Pawel Poljanski	72HI	68RS	72RC

The ambitions for this race are not many, our leaders are not up to the best. Still I think it will be possible to finish this race with a smile on the face.
Haussler can take advantage of its ability to pass the hills to get a good result in the sprint arrivals, since they are not as easy as you might think.
The rest of the team can always surprise and be in the fight for classifications other than the final victory. But by being the beginning of the season it is always a lottery because we do not know what and who we will face

fintas wrote:
Taking into account what I saw in European championships, I would not be so sure.
Looks like this PCM, the daily form may have much influence particularly in TT.

fintas wrote:
Taking into account what I saw in European championships, I would not be so sure.
Looks like this PCM, the daily form may have much influence particularly in TT.

The season did not start the best way, after winning the previous edition Kupfernagel fought for the top 5.
Unfortunately not our team or the favorites managed to avoid an escape already close to arrival and would eventually succeed. This complicated the task because the first 4 places were delivered with only one place to the top 5, Kupfernagel would have to win the sprint in the peloton, but this was not possible and eventually finished the race in 9th place which is not being bad leaves a sour as the top 5 was clearly within reach
Results:

1st	Mark Dzamastagic	Evonik - ELKO	1h29'27
...
9th	Danilo Kupfernagel	Karcher-Adira	s.t.
50th	Markus Eichler	Karcher-Adira	s.t.
58th	Benjamin Dyball	Karcher-Adira	s.t.
73th	Heinrich Haussler	Karcher-Adira	s.t.
75th	Fabio Silvestre	Karcher-Adira	s.t.
104th	Rafael Silva	Karcher-Adira	s.t.
137th	Alfredo Balloni	Karcher-Adira	s.t.
169th	Marcel Barth	Karcher-Adira	s.t.

Although not achieved any victory, this race turns out to have a very positive outcome. From day one the team was involved in the stage of decisions, which allowed us to achieve several stage top10.
through even had a double dip that took us the possibility to have even more success in the race, Haussler and Vakoc ended up losing time that otherwise might not have lost. was above our expectations and eventually fight for a final top10 which was achieved, Chiarello also been highlighted by reaching the top 5 in the queen stage thus allowing it to end in the top20 and being 2nd in the U25 standings.

Results:

1st	Cesare Di Maggio	Team Vontobel	18h31'32
...
9th	Jonathan McEvoy	Karcher-Adira	+ 52
18th	William Chiarello	Karcher-Adira	+ 4'39
29th	Petr Vakoc	Karcher-Adira	+ 5'32
30th	Heinrich Haussler	Karcher-Adira	s.t.
54th	Linus Gerdemann	Karcher-Adira	+ 6'28
86th	Daniel Eduardo Silva	Karcher-Adira	+ 7'14
90th	Pawel Poljanski	Karcher-Adira	s.t.
94th	Mario Costa	Karcher-Adira	s.t.