The chaos has come to an end... The transfer season has calmed down. And with one week passed and one to go, it might be a very sluggish 2nd week. Today, Aeropostal confirms the signing of 3 more riders. Let's see them.

Paúl Torres - €65.000

FL	MO	HI	TT	STA	RES	REC	COB	SPR	ACC	FI	DH	PRL
65	76	62	66	66	71	72	52	61	73	74	60	66

Wilmer Vasquez - €100.000

FL	MO	HI	TT	STA	RES	REC	COB	SPR	ACC	FI	DH	PRL
64	77	64	62	66	74	70	50	56	68	64	61	62

Xavier Nieves - €50.000

FL	MO	HI	TT	STA	RES	REC	COB	SPR	ACC	FI	DH	PRL
66	58	66	65	66	66	63	53	68	68	69	61	68

Paúl is a veteran climber. The troubles over his hills might not help him, but he will for sure help Pedraza in longer climbs.

Same thing should apply to Vasquez. Pure climber, with difficulty to overcome short hills, he will be there as well to help Pedraza in longer climbs.

Xavier is a talent from Venezuela, a sprinter. Definetelly has the talent to become the best South American sprinter in the world in the next couple of years.

Let's notice also that Roniel Campos has been loaned to Grupo Nutresa to gain experience and hopefully, do good in C2 races. Let's pray for him and that he makes good use of the experience at Grupo Nutresa.

Squad:

	Raúl Granjel Cabrera
	Juan Mora
	Emanuele Rizza
	Jose Mojica
	Jason Donald
	Eduardo Sepuvelda
	Lawson Craddock
	Xavier Nieves

Goal:
With the great influx of sprinters into the PCT division, I think that a top 5 from Granjel could be considered a good result.

Vuelta al Tachira

Squad:

	Walter Pedraza
	Remberto Jaramillo
	Eduin Becerra
	Emanuele Rizza
	Pedro Sequera
	Luis Enrique Lemus Davila
	Yeison Delgado

Goal:
Pedraza is here to win the competition. It's our win goal this season and, obviously, an important race for our sponsors. Rizza comes to lead the sprints and could sneak into top 10's, and if the sprinting competition is low, into podiums, while the rest of the team comes to help Pedraza and try their luck in the breakaways.

cio93 wrote:
Top 5 in DUC is really optimistic for an 80 sprinter, but as long as Ciolek gets me the goal (which is Top 5 as well), you can fill up the spots

I hope all the South American climbers going to Tachira will mean Delage can get some points on the hillier stages benefiting from their weak hill ratings, but Rizza and Privatbank's guys should definitely be stronger on the pure flat ones.

Results:
5th Raúl Granjel Cabrera
130th Emanuele Rizza
133th Juan Mora
153th Eduardo Sepuvelda
154th Jason Donald
155th Xavier Nieves
165th Jose Mojica
172th Lawson Craddock

Review:
5th is a very fine result by Granjel, showing that he has what it takes to get good results even in a pack filled division with sprinters. 61 points from that.

Pedraza, together with Nazaret, ride away from the pack in stage 8

Stage Results:
2nd Stage 3 - Emanuele Rizza
5th Stage 4 - Eduin Becerra
3rd Stage 8 - Walter Pedraza
2nd Stage 9 - Walter Pedraza
8th Stage 10 - Walter Pedraza

GC Results:
4th Walter Pedraza
37th Remberto Jaramillo
52th Eduin Becerra
60th Pedro Sequera
75th Luis Enrique Lemus Davila
Yeison Delgado
131th Emanuele Rizza

Review:
It was our goal win and we.... failed, obviously. Not a good start regarding our goals. Though the AI didn't help us. Still, 97 points is not that bad.

Full Review:
158 points from 12 race days, make a total of 13.2 pprd. Don't know how good that is, but it's definetelly not great. Going down already...

Our Squad:
Eduin Becerra
Maky Roman
Fabricio Ferrari
Félix Emilio Besada
Stefano Pirazzi
Lawson Craddock
Gavin Mannion
Pedro Pablo Pereyra

Goal:
Uhm... I think breakaways are our biggest chance of doing something, so do it. Hopefully we get some surprise and maybe, just a big maybe, Becerra sneaks into the top 15.

Tour of Oman

Our Squad:
Remberto Jaramillo
Paúl Torres
Wilmer Vasquez
Pedro Sequera
Eduardo Sepuvelda
Luis Enrique Lemus Davila
Yeison Delgado
Xavier Nieves

Goal:
Well, more troubles. Jaramillo needs to hang in the hills, same with Torres and Vasquez, and then try to finish all three in the top 25/20.

Our Squad:
Raúl Granjel Cabrera
Eduin Becerra
Juan Mora
Jose Mojica
Jason Donald
Gavin Mannion
Pedro Pablo Pereyra

Goal:
I have no idea how many sprinters are here. If there aren't a lot, Cabrera has the chance of taking two wins. If it's a sprint packed field, top 5's would be good. Regarding GC wise, I would take a top 15 with Becerra.

Cabrera wins the Stage 4 in Mallorca

And after a little bit over a month after the start of the new season, Aeropostal grabs their 1st win of the season. A little bit later than least year, when Dall'Antonia won the Emerald Race at the start of February. And as we get closer to the month of March, Cuban sprinter Raúl Granjel Cabrera finally gives us our 1st win, by taking the 4th stage of the Vuelta a Mallorca. More to come on the Monthly Review coming up later tonight!

A rare showing by us in South Africa

GC Results:
51th Eduin Becerra
102th Fabricio Ferrari
104th Félix Emilio Besada
126th Stefano Pirazzi
143th Maky Roman
165th Gavin Mannion
168th Pedro Pablo Pereyra
171th Lawson Craddock

Review:
Just look at the results. Awful. God awful. 2 points. Just awful. Get me out of here before I start swearing... again.

Sepuvelda grabbed 3rd place in the last stage

Stage Results:
4th Stage 5 - Remberto Jaramillo
3rd Stage 6 - Eduardo Sepuvelda

GC Results:
19th Pedro Sequera
54th Remberto Jaramillo
67th Luis Enrique Lemus Davila
96th Eduardo Sepuvelda
111th Paúl Torres
114th Wilmer Vasquez
132th Yeison Delgado
137th Xavier Nieves

Results:
Well, after what happened in South Africa, everything could be better. This certainly was, and a decent haul of 37 points makes me somewhat happy.

Happy days as Cabrera takes the last stage in Mallorca

Stage Results:
4th Stage 1 - Raúl Granjel Cabrera
5th Stage 2 - Juan Mora
7th Stage 2 - Raúl Granjel Cabrera
1st Stage 4 - Raúl Granjel Cabrera

GC Results:
9th Eduin Becerra
47th Juan Mora
52th Raúl Granjel Cabrera
64th Pedro Pablo Pereyra
67th Gavin Mannion
82nd Jason Donald
90th Jose Mojica

Review:
Win number 1! Yes! The all team was happy after that. Great job by Cabrera. It was a very decent race for us, overshadowing the disaster of South Africa. And we scored the ammoun of... 69 points. Be happy.

Full Review:
One disaster, and two, well, good races. 108 points from these three races, making a total of 6.75 pprd. Maybe if the disaster of South Africa hadn't happened, this would be a lot better.

Our Squad:
Wilmer Vasquez
Pedro Sequera
Fabricio Ferrari
Jason Donald
Stefano Pirazzi
Eduardo Sepuvelda
Luis Enrique Lemus Davila

Goal:
Well, after what happened in Oman with Vasquez, I'm not looking forward to this. But I think a top 10 in the GC would be very good. Sequera might be a nice surprise as well, while Donald is coming here to try and make a good TT.

Our Squad:
Raúl Granjel Cabrera
Emanuele Rizza
Félix Emilio Besada
Eduardo Sepuvelda
Yeison Delgado
Lawson Craddock
Xavier Nieves

Goal:
There's probably going to be here every single top PCT sprinter. Cabrera should get's a couple of top 10's, maybe, top 5's and who knows, podiums or even wins. I think a top 10 in the GC is achievable though.

Our Squad:
Remberto Jaramillo
Maky Roman
Paúl Torres
Juan Mora
Jose Mojica
Jason Donald
Eduardo Sepuvelda

Goal:
Jaramillo is a good climber, so is Torres, but I just, sadly, can't see them get a very good result. Maximum, I think, is a top 10. Depending on the level of the field obviously. If the field is week, probably very unlikelly, they can do better hopefully. But I think top 10 would be very good. Top 15 though is the goal.

Our Squad:
Walter Pedraza
Remberto Jaramillo
Juan Mora
Wilmer Vasquez
Jose Mojica
Lawson Craddock
Gavin Mannion
Pedro Pablo Pereyra

Goal:
If Trentino might be packed, this one will definetelly be! Pedraza is good and he can probably sneak into the top 10, maybe fight for the top 5 or podium. Never than less, top 10 with Pedraza and with Jaramillo and Vasquez trying to sneak into the top 15 as well for a good haul of points.

Mobil leaving as a sponsor?

After the Tour of America, a race where Mobil won two stages, rumours started spredding across the cycling nation that Mobil might be leaving as a sponsor for the American-Venezuelan squad. Comentanting on the subject, team boss Miguel Rocha said "They're contract ends this year, and we're currently negotiating a contract extension with them. We would for them to stay, but the team's results this year are not helping the negotiations." More updates are expected in the next days, with Rocha setting up a press conference to reveal the plans for the 2015 cycling season after the Philadelphia International Champioship classic.

Mobil to stick with Aeropostal

Mobil announced today that it will stick alongside Aeropostal for the 2015 campaign. As the venezuelan team seems set to go back to the CT after a year of experience in the PCT, the oil giants announced that for 2015 at least, they'll continue to provide the team with money and oil for they're cars. The team manager, Miguel Rocha, said that "I'm really gratefull for Mobil for agreeing to stick with another year with us. They've been with us since the start of this project, and we would love for them to be part of it. Fortunatelly, it seems that it will happen, for 2 more years at least."