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| untal |
Posted on 25-07-2010 00:06
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Genting Highlands, is as I said before, was already raced. These two stages were not posted before because of the downtime of the forum. Stage 5 will be posted as soon as I finish racing stage 6.
Let's see if Smowz has his predictions spot on. I would doubt that... 
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 25-07-2010 05:12
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Solid
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| Smowz |
Posted on 25-07-2010 07:39
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Ouch, the first really bad race for Red Bull in the season.
Konstantin Siutsou took a chance and attacked early and paid for it badly in the end. I suppose I can console myself with getting my prediction at least close. Though I did think that there would not be such severe time gaps on the stage.
Bernard Kohl, so so in San Luis managed to outkick Serpa and the Mt Hood man Alarcon. A real battle of the very best climbers on the CTour.
Barring some sort of windy stage (I have seen it happen in my PCM games!), surely the GC sorted just two sprints or perhaps a breakaway will be allowed! |
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| beagle |
Posted on 25-07-2010 07:50
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hope my riders saved some energy here to chase down any break in upcoming flat stages as usually do...
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 25-07-2010 11:01
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Lopez Garcia joins the list of disappointments I have suffered this season.
 [url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182] Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
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| Heine |
Posted on 25-07-2010 11:30
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7th by Kessiakoff, higher than I expected when I saw the startlist tbh 
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| Smowz |
Posted on 26-07-2010 07:37
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Far too many sprinters for a breakaway to succeed. Its been a tough race for my cyclists, looking forward to regrouping in some smaller races! So close to a nasty split like the one we saw in Tour Med.
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| mb2612 |
Posted on 26-07-2010 10:30
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A win, yes
[url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182] Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
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| rycadinho |
Posted on 26-07-2010 12:43
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I'm really impressed by Bernucci, he seems to be a new version of Mark Renshaw! To bad that Loddo and Serpa couldn't grab a stage win but I'm very pleased with the performance of the team so far.
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| beagle |
Posted on 26-07-2010 13:45
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rycadinho wrote:
I'm very pleased with the performance of the team so far.
I have just opposite feelings
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| Christer |
Posted on 26-07-2010 15:59
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Meh. Just meh.
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| Smowz |
Posted on 02-08-2010 09:22
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Ouch, a really nasty stage for some riders there!
A very low scoring tour from Red Bull's point of view. Siutsou moving up to only 19th place was really disappointing after his excellent debut in the Protour. He attacked to early on the Genting stage and poor positioning on the flat stages didn't help matters.
The truth though was the lack of true strength in depth is going to cost me in races of this class. All of the top 5 had mountain stat 78 and above, all of the top 13 had mountain stat 77 and above... finally all of the top 24 had mountain stat 76 and above.
We can console ourselves that we certainly were not the only team to have a low scoring tour here.
Ikea - suffered a nightmare on the last stage with Alarcon and Bjellmark. Blink and you may have missed Tinkoff, Petrov managed a top 10 but that is about it. Similar story for Vespa, I missed what happened to Bosisio?
On the sprinting side of things, I was disappointed homegrown Haider Anuawar could not strike with a stage win. Once again I cannot be too surprised, the quality of sprinters was strong, with Napolitano(Unicredit) and Guereo (Santander) nabbing 2 stage wins apiece. Van Avermart (Bimbo) grabbing one stage and two seconds and JJ Haedo (Mercedes) nabbing the opener. Those kind of sprinters are a different class!
UBS and Sport Lisboa probably the pick of the points scorers in terms of overall classifications. But a nice tour also for Pirelli, Petronas, Telenor, Bimbo Nutello and UniCredit.
Perhaps the headline though was Ikeas Alarcon dropping from 2nd to 21st on the last stage! |
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| Heine |
Posted on 02-08-2010 11:46
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Nice race for me indeed, Kessiakoff did better than I expected (best of the "under 78 mon" riders ;-)). Brown shows that he lacks the speed when sprinting with the best, hopefully he can shine later in the season.
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| Christer |
Posted on 02-08-2010 13:24
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Meh. 12 in the GC.... Meh.
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| rycadinho |
Posted on 02-08-2010 13:43
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Strong ending for the team with Loddo scoring another positive result and Serpa (due to the unexpected crash for Alarcon) moving up to second in the overall classification. I believe that Serpa can manage to win the trentino now since he became third in San Luis and now second here - next race can only be a win then 
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 02-08-2010 17:36
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I'm happy. Didn't think that Kohl could do that.
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| fenian_1234 |
Posted on 02-08-2010 17:55
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Not much of a hilly stage in that race. |
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| Smowz |
Posted on 02-08-2010 19:13
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Fenian: Agreed, I was at a loss to explain what an earth was going on in that 'hilly stage'. Not sure the riders could break out of that sprinting stranglehold.
Just been doing some crude calculations to check the damage done. I am pretty sure the top 4 teams from this race are UBS (about 260 points), Pirelli (about 200 points), Sport Lisboa (about 185 points) and Mercedes (about 155 points).
Adding that to some even more crude calculations (cruder than my predos!) from the Giro de Capo (oh those glorious days) and that shoddy roads Belgian race thingee (K-B-K), I think the team classification is roughly as follows (race days in brackets):
Sport Lisboa - 1142 (48)
UBS - 1043 (39)
Ikea - 1026 (40)
Petronas - 1024 (47)
Mercedes - 1018 (37)
Red Bull - 1008 (44)
Wiggle - 975 (30)
Pendletons - 878 (26)
Lego - 705 (35)
El Al - 688 (52)
Cillit Bang - 646 (32)
Tinkoff - 626 (27)
Santander - 613 (31)
100% Me - 606 (29)
Pirelli - 586 (27)
Quiksilver - 559 (39)
Bimbo Nut - 488 (27)
Youtube - 474 (43)
Pokerstars - 464 (35)
Yamaha - 446 (41)
Telenor - 433 (39)
Intesa - 423 (33)
Bacardi - 346 (25)
Bbox - 332 (30)
Vespa - 256 (22)
Unicredit - 208 (20)
Highroad - 162 (37)
Milka - 160 (15)
Falcon - 94 (20)
Its perhaps a slightly misleading table at the moment, Wiggle and Pendletons have monstrous 30 + points per race day which is way above all the teams with 1000+ points. Still points in the bag are useful, you are always one crash or one strong field away from a poor result
We now have a number of smaller races, with fields of between 7 and 12 teams in which will give some teams a better chance to bag points. The next De Panne tour features teams who have not had so many race days so catch up time!
Btw the above stats are only based on my own calculations! |
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