For the first time cobbles appears on our calendar, and as expected this race was a total disaster for the team. With no rider able to do well in this type of terrain, just a break could save the team, unfortunately this did not happen and for the first time this season pulled off a race without any point. At the end would eventually be Van Hummel to celebrate the victory, and Allan Davis was our best man finishing in 34th position.


Result

1	Kenny Van Hummel	BelarusBank Pro Cycling	6h04'53
34	Allan Davis	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 2'06
60	Marcel Barth	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 5'52
69	Fabio Silvestre	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 7'55
70	Amaro Antunes	Karcher-Adira Racing	s.t.
74	Sascha Damrow	Karcher-Adira Racing	s.t.
81	Rodrigo Nascimento	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 8'29
83	Jóni Brandão	Karcher-Adira Racing	s.t.

Tour of Japan will be our next race. It is difficult to predict without knowing who will be present, but with Kupfernagel and Gerdemann we hope to get good results. The stage 2 seems too difficult to Kupfernagel might make a difference, but in stage 6 has strong chances to get the win, Gerdemann will make his second race of the year and after the brilliant performance in Ukraine the expectations are high and the top 10 is the minimum required but for this stage 5 seems crucial.

Squad:
Linus Gerdemann
Danilo Kupfernagel
Johannes Frohlinger
Daniel Eduardo Silva
Pedro Paulinho
Marcio Portela
Jorge Azanza

A race that would be won by Saggiorato, thanks to a break in stage 3 that would eventually have major consequences in the general classification. As expected Kupfernagel fought for the victory in stage 2 and 6 being undermined by the lack of a true launcher but still end in the top10 of these stages. Gerdemann always been in the fight for the top 10 overall, eventually finishing in 8th place


Result:

1st	Mirco Saggiorato	Sauber Petronas Racing	15h20'35
...
8th	Linus Gerdemann	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 3'12
37th	Jorge Azanza	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 9'08
39th	Daniel Eduardo Silva	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 9'27
43th	Johannes Frohlinger	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 9'48
51th	Pedro Paulinho	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 10'49
58th	Marcio Portela	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 11'11
126th	Danilo Kupfernagel	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 37'34

After Japan the team travels to Romania, where the objectives are identical to the Japanese race. This time Marcel Barth will fight for the first and the last stage, victory will be almost impossible but the top10 of the stage is within reach. For the GC the hopes of the team fall again in Linus Gerdemann. Able to do well in either type of terrain of this race, Gerdemann may very well end once again in the top10.
Squad:
Linus Gerdemann
Marcel Barth
Sérgio Sousa
Daniel Eduardo Silva
Pedro Paulinho
Jóni Brandão
Rodrigo Nascimento

At the same time it takes to race in Romania our team is in Costa Rica to compete in a very tough race. A mountain classic and of course our leader will be our main hope for a good result. Karpets will try to fight for the top 5, but without knowing what his opponents will be is hard to predict, so the top10 also will eventually not be a bad result. To help in this task by his side will have some of our best climbers.
Squad:
Vladimir Karpets
João Cabreira
Rui Pedro Vinhas
Amaro Antunes
André Cardoso
Johannes Frohlinger
Jorge Azanza

The last race of the month will take place in our country which will run a classic and there our leader could only be McEvoy. Unfortunately the profile of the race is not what is most suitable for McEvoy therefore the objectives for this race are very low. Whatever is above the top20 it will be too good for the team. Last season managed to finish on the podium but the race was lower category by that competition was much lower.
Squad:
Jonathan McEvoy
Federico Rocchetti
Rui Pedro Vinhas
Pedro Paulinho
André Cardoso
Marcio Portela
Rodrigo Nascimento

The team met almost completely the proposed objectives for this race. The competition was higher than expected and this has made the task more difficult for the team. But in the end Linus Gerdemann has achieved the two top10 of stage that the team was proposed and failed the top10 overall by just 2 seconds.



Results:

1	Beñat Intxausti	Bacardi Limited	8h10'25
11	Linus Gerdemann	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 3'43
24	Sérgio Sousa	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 5'26
38	Daniel Eduardo Silva	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 5'53
83	Pedro Miguel Paulinho	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 10'44
101	Jóni Brandão	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 15'30
123	Rodrigo Nascimento	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 24'33
137	Marcel Barth	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 28'28

Meanwhile in Costa Rica things did not go so well for the team. Karpets was one of the clear candidates for the top 10 and even some chances to finish in the top 5. Unfortunately had a bad day and end up just outside the top10 which allied to a poor rendering of the rest of the team made ​​this a bad race for us.


Results:

1	Rigoberto Úran	Bacardi Limited	6h35'27
12	Vladimir Karpets	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 6'32
24	Rui Pedro Vinhas	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 17'48
36	João Cabreira	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 26'45
40	Johannes Frohlinger	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 27'29
46	Jorge Azanza	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 28'14
63	André Cardoso	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 31'31
71	Amaro Antunes	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 33'25

First of all should be drunk when I made the selection of the team for this race. Why the hell was I put Kupfernagel on this race???Has no explanation. But let's get down to business, Karpets will be the leader and will be aimed at the top10 from he GC, such as the top10 of stages. Cabreira and Vinhas will be his support, Cardoso and Frohlinger will try to participate in the breaks.

Squad:
Vladimir Karpets
João Cabreira
Rui Pedro Vinhas
André Cardoso
Johannes Frohlinger
Danilo Kupfernagel
Rodrigo Nascimento

The objectives for this race are clear, Linus Gerdemann will fight for the top 10 overall and Allan Davis for the victory in stages 1 and 3.

Squad:
Linus Gerdemann
Allan Davis
Sérgio Sousa
Fabio Silvestre
Pedro Paulinho
Marcio Portela
Jorge Azanza

Our unique appearance in C2 races this year. No expectations for this race, which will be the only one where Rocchetti will have the opportunity to lead the team.

Squad:
Federico Rocchetti
Fabio Silvestre
André Cardoso
Pedro Paulinho
Marcio Portela
Amaro Antunes
Jóni Brandão

A very tough race, where as usual Karpets will try to fight for the top10. For this to his side will have the best of the team on the mountain, it will not be for lack of support that Karpets will not achieve the desired goal.

Squad:
Vladimir Karpets
João Cabreira
Rui Pedro Vinhas
Daniel Eduardo Silva
André Cardoso
Amaro Antunes
Johannes Frohlinger
Jorge Azanza

Our win goal of the season, doomed to failure since the transfers period due to the failure of some of the intended signings. All that remains now is to try to minimize these failure, the top5 should be the best that will be achieved.

Squad:
Marcel Barth
Rodrigo Nascimento
Linus Gerdemann
Sascha Damrow
Sérgio Sousa
Fabio Silvestre
Marcio Portela

Yesterday ran the last race of the month for the team, "playing at home" had hopes that the team excels itself, and achieve a good result. Unfortunately it was very difficult by the presence of some of the best cyclists in this type of terrain. The hope falls to the presence in the break of the day, unfortunately that did not happen and all the responsibility fell on McEvoy which in the end was not able to be with the best, finishing just in 20th position.

Results:

1	Chris Froome	Quickstep	4h03'41
...
20	Jonathan McEvoy	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 2'56
62	Federico Rocchetti	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 5'47
87	Pedro Miguel Paulinho	Karcher-Adira Racing	s.t.
94	Rui Pedro Vinhas	Karcher-Adira Racing	s.t.
97	Amaro Antunes	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 7'51
104	André Cardoso	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 8'35
113	Rodrigo Nascimento	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 10'49

jt1109 wrote:
It's a shame Mcevoy played dumb in your home race as I feel he could of made the top 10 given his strength in towing his group at the end

Gustavovskiy wrote:
Nice to see my boys on your line-ups, fintas. Thanks for taking them up on loan

Rui Vinhas during the second stage

The month of June has not started in the best way, the team moved to France where the two initial stages have been disastrous for us. Karpets was unable to follow the best and end up losing too much time. In the last two stages he did everything to recover some of that time but it was too late and it was impossible to reach the top20.

Results:

1	Janez Brajkovic	Heineken-Cal Giant	14h41'26
...
22	Vladimir Karpets	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 11'07
36	Rui Pedro Vinhas	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 18'53
45	João Cabreira	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 24'25
72	Johannes Frohlinger	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 32'21
80	André Cardoso	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 34'59
144	Rodrigo Nascimento	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 1h32'58
DNF	Danilo Kupfernagel	Karcher-Adira Racing

TheManxMissile wrote:
Zipp Sounds like you'll be carrying over the big sponsors, or at least at the moment it does...

Tour of Eritrea started with a flat stage and Davis was our man, although well placed in the final part of the stage could not repeat the victory of last season. Eventually finishing the stage in 5th position all members of the team would eventually finish with the same time.
In the second stage appeared to the mountain, which would eventually cause havoc in the team. Gerdemann was unable to be with the best and would lose 2'30 minutes ending in 23th.
Seemed that this would be one more bad race for the team, but everything would change much due to the strong wind that was felt in 3rd stage. The proper positioning of the team would eventually bear fruit with several cyclists rise in general.
The last stage had some difficulties near the end and was the last opportunity to make differences. Indeed it would be difficult, that this stage goes better for the team Paulinho took part of the break that would eventually discuss the win paulinho was not gone beyond the 2nd place. But even better was Gerdemann, who with an excellent attack near the end managed to gain time to various cyclists. Finished in 4th place of the stage and eventually climb 8 places in GC. Also Sousa anda Azanza have achieved prominent places.
In the end what seemed to be just another race, eventually became a good race for the whole team.

Results:

1	Florentino Marquez	Quickstep	9h18'28
...
10	Linus Gerdemann	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 2'50
19	Sérgio Sousa	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 3'43
25	Jorge Azanza	Karcher-Adira Racing	s.t.
40	Pedro Miguel Paulinho	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 8'44
55	Marcio Portela	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 16'12
75	Fabio Silvestre	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 24'57
86	Allan Davis	Karcher-Adira Racing	+ 29'45

Top15 Team Standings	[PCT]
Win Monterrey TTT	[C1]
Top5 Isle of Man ITT	[C1]
Top5 Volta a Portugal	[HC]
Top10 Tour Down Under	[C1]

With the season approaching the end comes time to make a small balance relative to our goals. In fact there is not much to say before this scenario, the failures in Monterrey and the Isle of Man were expected, after failing to hire some of the intended cyclists to attack these objectives.
But failing the objectives in the Tour Down Under and the Volta a Portugal was a real disappointment. McEvoy It was not very far from achieving the top10 in Australia but as was the case in the rest of the season his performance was slightly below expectations. In what concerns the Volta a Portugal the history is completely different, Karpets was never able to be among the best and from day one it was possible to see that this would be a failed goal. In fact this was even the worst race of the year for our team so far.
All these failures have complicated our ultimate goal of the season, although that remains open is therefore very difficult to achieve. On top of the last few races have not gone the best way for us and until the end of the season will be difficult recover lost ground in recent months