Doesn't look like a strong field. Nonetheless a commanding win.
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BA plan: Not sure putting Phinney in the breakaway yesterday was a great idea, but if it worked it could have been a tour winning move. Ah well, time for the TT.
BA plan: Likely to thin out a little bit at the end. Going to be working for Ulissi today. Look for an opportunity for an attack but not sure possible today.
BA plan: Likely to thin out a little bit at the end. Going to be working for Ulissi today. Look for an opportunity for an attack but not sure possible today.
Lloyd covers Ulissi, Lavery covers Langeveld. Water shared round
Breakaway: S Lampier (NGR), S Van Vooren (SKT), R Partridge (YDS), E Oliphant (RAL)
British Airways and Garmin Sharp bring work to bring back the breakaway.
Oliphant stayed away from the breakaway to win the stage. The favourites finished in a group behind. Rohan Dennis winning the sprint, Ulissi finishing second.
Lloyd covers Ulissi, Lavery covers Langeveld. Water shared round
Breakaway: M Hayman (OGE), S Van Vooren (SKT), D Clarke (YDS), R Hampton (RAL)
British Airways in charge for stage today.
Looks like the breakaway is going to stay away. Russell Hampton takes the stage from the breakaway, Clarke from the Yorkshire Development squad finishes 2nd. That's a second stage win for Raleigh.
Now back to the GC riders, Ulissi takes time out of Dennis but is it enough? Only just, Rohan Dennis loses his jersey by just 2 seconds! Looks like the intermediate sprints could be important.
Stage Winner: Russell Hampton (RAL)
Leaders Jersey: Diego Ulissi (BAY)
Points Jersey: Diego Ulissi (BAY)
Mountain Jersey: Steven Van Vooren (ANP)
Young Riders Jersey: Diego Ulissi (BAY)
Team award: Garmin Sharp
Rank
Name
Team
Time
1
Diego Ulissi
British Airways
22h12'37
2
Rohan Dennis
Garmin Sharp
+ 2
3
David Millar
Garmin Sharp
+ 10
4
Ivan Santaromita
Orica GreenEdge
+ 30
5
Dario Cataldo
Team Sky
+ 49
6
Oscar Gatto
Cannondale
+ 57
7
Paul Voss
Team NetApp - Endura
+ 1'20
8
Marco Marcato
Cannondale
+ 1'39
9
Simon Clarke
Orica GreenEdge
+ 1'43
10
Daniele Ratto
Cannondale
s.t.
Photos are not posting. Despite it only being 1.3mb :(
Edited by Gaffeff on 18-08-2014 21:18
Langeveld covers Ulissi, Lloyd covers Blythe. Water shared round. Phinney gets into the breakaway.
Breakaway: S Baylis (MGT), M Holmes (RAL), T Phinney (BAY), M Cuming (RCJ), D Downing (YDS), S Downey (SKT)
25km to go, breakaway has 1 min 27 seconds. Unlikely to stay away. Should be a bunch sprint but need to keep an eye on Dennis and Miller in case they grab some time back. Cannondale and Sky working hard to bring the breakaway back.
11 km to go, Cannondale and Sky have split the pack. Blythe has stayed in the front group, Ulissi does too thanks to hard work from Langeveld.
The breakaway gets caught in the last 600m and the Garmin rider Steele Van Hoff takes the bunch sprint. Adam Blythe was completely out of position to contest the sprint
Stage Winner: Steele van Hoff (GRS)
Leaders Jersey: Diego Ulissi (BAY)
Points Jersey: Oscar Gatto (CAN)
Mountain Jersey: Steven Van Vooren (ANP)
Young Riders Jersey: Diego Ulissi (BAY)
Team award: Garmin Sharp
Rank
Name
Team
Time
1
Diego Ulissi
British Airways
27h37'24
2
Rohan Dennis
Garmin Sharp
+ 2
3
David Millar
Garmin Sharp
+ 10
4
Ivan Santaromita
Orica GreenEdge
+ 30
5
Dario Cataldo
Team Sky
+ 49
6
Oscar Gatto
Cannondale
+ 57
7
Paul Voss
Team NetApp - Endura
+ 1'20
8
Marco Marcato
Cannondale
+ 1'35
9
Simon Clarke
Orica GreenEdge
+ 1'43
10
Daniele Ratto
Cannondale
s.t.
We've won the tour of Britain by 2 seconds
That's it for the cycling for the 2014 (unless a womens database comes along).
[Right, baring a 2014 Womens database that's it for the 2014 season.
I'll be moving the game onto PCM 2014 for the 2015 season.
The 2015 Development squad will be undertaken on the PCM enhanced database when it comes out ... hopefully soon.
The 2015 Worldtour squad will take part on the PCM enhanced 2015 version usually out in February 2015.
The womens team will race if I ever see a database
To convert the game I need to add the equipment so (all teams use the same):
Frame: Boardman (I've been using this anyway so I'll stick with it).
Wheels: Campagnolo (Again I'll stick with what I was using).
Groupset: None at moment so with go with Campagnolo.
Idea will be to have them on a one year contract and the Worldtour game will decide the ones for the season afterwards.]
Signing off until the new database comes out. See you then.
Welcome to the 2015 season with the Development Squad.
Sprint team: Tour Series
Tour Team: Tour of Britain, Tour De Langkawi, Tour of Taiwan
Cobblestones: The 2 cobbled Tour Series races
But Key objective: Each Squad should look to send one rider to the main team.
Squad details:
Classic Squad: (to reduce by one for next year)
Jonathan Bellis (GBR)
Brendan Butler (IRL)
Pete Fox (YOR)
Joseph Hamilton (YOR)
Aaron Jones (NZL)
Matty Locke (YOR)
Sam Maxwell (YOR)
Nick Ryan (YOR)
Ashley Wood (YOR)
Sprint Squad:
Joshua Atkins (NZL)
Graham Briggs (YOR)
Felix English (IRL)
Thomas Gunn (YOR)
Ryan Mullen (IRL)
Kenichi Sakakibara (JPN)
Yamato Shirota (JPN)
Michael Vink (NZL)
Tour Squad:
Thomas Faiers (GBR)
Teo Geoghegan Hart (GBR)
Naoomal Jeoomal (IND)
Jahangir Khan (IND)
Janardan Navle (IND)
Robert Partridge (YOR)
Lall Singh (IND)
Adam Yates (GBR)
Edited by Gaffeff on 16-09-2014 20:06
Contracts expiring:
Joshua Atkins
Jonathan Bellis
Graham Briggs
Pete Fox
Yamota Shirota
01/02/15 – YDS 1st in continental rankings with 119 points, 11th in the Superprestige ratings. Best rider is Adam Yates in 2nd place with 59 points.
01/03/15 – YDS 3rd in continental rankings with 125 points, 21st in the Superprestige ratings. Best rider is Adam Yates in 2nd place with 154 superprestige points. The cobble team has 12 points, Sprint team has 74 pts, tour team has 154 pts.
06/03/15 –Fred Irvine (IRL) sponsored by YDS (Young rider)
01/04/15 - YDS 1st in continental rankings with 420 points, 19th in the Superprestige ratings. Best rider is Adam Yates in 5th place with 546 superprestige points. The cobble team has 16 superprestige points, Sprint team has 74 pts, tour team has 572 pts.
02/04/15 – Jimmy Todd (IRL) sponsored by YDS (Young Rider)
12/04/15 – Rory McMeerhan (IRL) sponsored by YDS (Young Rider)
01/05/15 – Yorkshire Tea offer a contract renewal as primary sponsor until 2017. I agree the offer. Tata remain as secondary sponsor.
01/05/15 - YDS 3rd in continental rankings with 517 points, 23rd in the Superprestige ratings. Best rider is Adam Yates in 15th place with 546 superprestige points. The cobble team has 53 superprestige points, Sprint team has 78 pts, tour team has 572 pts.
Team : (Surprised I’m allowed to pick 8, but oh well)
Jonathan Bellis (leader)
Pete Fox
Joseph Hamilton
Aaron Jones
Matty Locke
Sam Maxwell
Nick Ryan
Ashley Wood
Doctor: Bob Leighton
Frame Pick: AiR/9.8 Frame
Wheels: Shamal (Front and rear)
Bellis is a two star favourite for the stage.
With 18.5 km to go, the race has split into three. A breakaway of of T Horton (MGT), N Baldo (VBG) and J Gullen (VGR) the peleton of 77 riders and a split to another group of 93.
Photo 1 to be entered.
Robaix and Yorkshire work together to lessen the pack and catch the breakaway which is caught with 8 km to go.
T Vermeer from the Jo Piels team jumps with 5 km to go, can he stay away.
Yes, he can.
Jonathan Bellis finishes in a disappointing 16th place.
15/05/15 – Pearl Izumi Round 2 – Durham
Team : (no change from last race)
Jonathan Bellis (leader)
Pete Fox
Joseph Hamilton
Aaron Jones
Matty Locke
Sam Maxwell
Nick Ryan
Ashley Wood
Doctor: Bob Leighton
Frame Pick: CxR/9.8 Frame (Modified Cyclo cross frame)
Wheels: Eurus (Front and rear)
With 14.2 km to go, theres a solo breakaway of L Chirico (MGK).
With 3.4km to go Bellis, who was in a fairly good position crashes.
With none of the other riders in a good position, that will be it for Yorkshires chances.
The former Yorkshire rider Ian Wilkinson wins the stage, although he may need some very good brakes.
A train wreck by Yorkshire there. They don’t even get a point in the team classifications.
20/05/15 – Pearl Izumi Round 3 – Stoke
Team :
Joshua Atkins
Graham Briggs (leader)
Felix English
Thomas Gunn
Ryan Mullen
Kenichi Sakakibara
Michael Vink
Doctor: Bob Leighton
Frame Pick: SLS/9.8 Frame
Wheels: Hyperon (Front and rear)
With 25 km to go, there is a breakaway of 6 riders: B Silva (EFG), G Harper (VGR), I Frolov (TIK), F Bonistalli (CEF), G Briggs (YDS), R Menedez (CCD) with a 50 second lead over the peleton.
Lots of individual attacks here, no team really in Control. Michael Vink and Joshua Atkins join in the attacks.
Diego Milan however is the rider who makes it stick for a fantastic solo win.
However Yorkshire riders finishing 3rd, 7th and 9th should give them a good team rating.
Stage 4:
Team : (Surprised I’m allowed to pick 8, but oh well)
Joshua Atkins
Graham Briggs (leader)
Felix English
Thomas Gunn
Ryan Mullen
Kenichi Sakakibara
Michael Vink
Doctor: Bob Leighton
Frame Pick: AiR/9.8 Frame
Wheels: Shamal (Front and rear)
With 17 km to go there are two breakaways:
C Butler (HSD), M Torckler (SSC), S Deckert (LKT), L F Alfonso (LAR)
J Rathe (JBC), S Tvetcov (JBC), K Sakakibara (YDS), G Brenes (JSH)
Lots of breakaway attempts, very messy racing.
Thomas Gunn manages to get in a breakaway and holds on for a third place.
Sadly, looks like this thread will be coming to an end. The whole real life thing is getting in the way and just don't have the time to keep updates regular.
Throughly enjoyed it and I will continue playing the team but not writing about it. G
