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Cacak Classic Discussion
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 03-01-2018 20:59
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Cacak Classic
| Category: C2 | 168,7 km | terrain: bumpy |  Serbia |
The first addition of the new Cacak Classic found it's way on the calendar for the 2017 season. Over 168 kilometers it rounds a circuit 4 times, until the final uphill kilometers decide the race.
The ciruit does not seem too selective, hence we could well see a rather big group coming together to the final few kilometers. A good mixture of a fast punch good uphill legs should probably do the trick for the riders that aim for the win here.
| Puncheurs | | HIL | ACC | SPR | FLA | MON | STA | RES |  Chaves | Johan Esteban | 79 | 72 | 57 | 70 | 76 | 74 | 73 |  Roux | Anthony | 78 | 75 | 57 | 74 | 65 | 78 | 71 |  Boily | David | 78 | 74 | 68 | 67 | 76 | 72 | 72 |  Pellaud | Simon | 77 | 70 | 65 | 70 | 65 | 74 | 68 | | Diggle | Tom | 77 | 70 | 64 | 67 | 65 | 74 | 70 |  Lejman | Gracjan | 77 | 68 | 59 | 62 | 65 | 72 | 64 |  Kratochvila | Jakub | 77 | 64 | 53 | 67 | 76 | 70 | 68 |  Vichot | Arthur | 76 | 80 | 66 | 70 | 65 | 77 | 68 |  Hugentobler | Gregory | 76 | 76 | 56 | 70 | 68 | 70 | 69 | | Othman | Muhamad Adiq | 76 | 76 | 54 | 69 | 68 | 73 | 70 | | Rybakov | Alexander | 76 | 72 | 64 | 68 | 65 | 73 | 68 |  Gilbert | Philippe | 76 | 69 | 64 | 76 | 65 | 74 | 70 | | Nzeke | Geremie | 76 | 68 | 66 | 67 | 72 | 72 | 67 | | Rodriguez Galindo | Michael | 76 | 67 | 58 | 69 | 74 | 72 | 72 | | Wahyudi | Nandra Eko | 76 | 67 | 58 | 65 | 72 | 67 | 69 |  Wyss | Marcel | 75 | 75 | 68 | 72 | 69 | 76 | 68 | | Anderson | Ryan | 75 | 75 | 72 | 70 | 67 | 71 | 67 | | Destribois | Alex Ariya | 75 | 75 | 61 | 69 | 76 | 68 | 69 | | Gaimon | Phillip | 75 | 74 | 67 | 71 | 72 | 75 | 72 | | Climbers | | Bardet | Romain | 74 | 52 | 75 | 66 | 77 | 72 | 70 | | Battaglin | Enrico | 72 | 62 | 70 | 67 | 77 | 69 | 72 | | Pozzo | Mattia | 70 | 59 | 75 | 67 | 76 | 70 | 72 | | Rouleurs | | | | | | | | | | Kneisky | Morgan | 67 | 67 | 71 | 79 | 64 | 76 | 75 | | Van Emden | Jos | 67 | 73 | 73 | 76 | 62 | 74 | 74 |  Bernas | Pawel | 73 | 69 | 71 | 75 | 60 | 73 | 70 | | Smukulis | Gatis | 72 | 72 | 75 | 75 | 57 | 77 | 66 |  Delage | Mickaël | 73 | 73 | 71 | 74 | 67 | 73 | 70 | | Sprinters | | | | | | | | | | Haussler | Heinrich | 69 | 75 | 79 | 72 | 60 | 71 | 71 | | Mezgec | Luka | 67 | 77 | 79 | 71 | 61 | 73 | 70 | | Kruopis | Aidis | 70 | 77 | 78 | 73 | 64 | 73 | 76 |  Juarez | Daniel | 74 | 74 | 74 | 74 | 64 | 73 | 72 |
Of the favourites of course the trio of Chaves, Roux and Boily stand out. However, Boily may have the best of chances out of them, as he has a decent sprint stat on offer. All 3 got a fast kick anyway. Roux has the advantage of the strongest team to set him up.
Of the other puncheurs Vichot stands out with his furious acceleration. Also Anderson can offer some fast finishing speed, which may help if Rybakov, Smukulis and Gaimon bring him into position.
The possibly interesting team here is Lufthansa, having riders for every scenario. The two best climbers here with great attacking stats, a fancy roleur to attack in van Emden and a great captain in Wyss with Costa as support. Depth advantages also may go to Sauber for their attacking hill depth. Further interesting attackers are there in Pozzo, Kneisky and Bernas.
Wiggle also offers a good set--up for captain Haussler, that has some nice support in the names of Delage, Dowling and Finetto to have a sprint race, of that also local hero Mezgec and dark horses Kruopis and Juarez would benefit.
Favourite Check:
 Boily
 Roux, Chaves, Vichot
 Diggle, Anderson, Wyss
 Bardet, Juarez, Haussler, Pellaud, Hugentobler
 Mezgec, Kruopis, van Emden, Bernas, Gilbert, Zahni, Delage, Destribois
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Edited by Croatia14 on 04-01-2018 14:46
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 03-01-2018 21:07
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My current confidence on my hilly squad has decreased so much recently, that my best chance to score something in this race might be through Kneisky. And he being mentioned in the preview hopefully means that a rider like him, despite his not high hill stat (67) could attack from long range.
Great preview Croatia!
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 03-01-2018 21:16
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Well we've had a torrid time in the last two months, here starts a crucial time for us to not fall further behind as lots of teams could all go past us this month if we do bad here and meh in Euskal.
Have a feeling this will be much more like a classic from last year than the excitement of this year, with us in 12th in a boring race finishing in a sprint. Desperately hope I'm wrong for everyone's sake  Hoping for Roux to be in a select group, preferably without Boily, to contest the finish as a solo seems unlikely. For us we have to win here but without a major final climb it's hard to predict: could easily see a KBK situation but in the hills. Down to Nzeke, Lloyd, Davison and Diggle to make the race hard and set Roux up for a winning situation. I wouldn't mind MTK for a shot at a minor result so long as we drop all the sprinters Thanks for a detailed preview Croatia, love the star graphics and the analysis of different race situations!
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 03-01-2018 22:06
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Not in for this one, but interesting to see another hilly battle. I've got a feeling on Roux although this is not at all a race that suits him perfectly.
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Posted on 03-01-2018 22:06
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Not in for this one, but interesting to see another hilly battle. I've got a feeling on Roux although this is not at all a race that suits him perfectly.
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 03-01-2018 22:19
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Does MON stat really matter in that route?
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 03-01-2018 23:14
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Aiming for a top 10 here, but I think it will probably come down to positioning in a 20-30 man bunch sprint which is normally a little bit of a lottery so we could easily miss out on that target.
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 03-01-2018 23:59
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We got our puncheurs out in full force here.Seeing the quality of the competition a top 5 or even a win if we are super lucky shouldn't be off the charts. A Smukulis miracle could do the bits as well.
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 04-01-2018 02:29
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Bit of an XP race for us, but I'd like to think either Bernas or maybe even Pedersen could pull something out of the bag in the right circumstances (for Pedersen I guess they'd need to be really really perfect ), otherwise, please a man in the break (not Kolev ).
Roux or Jaurez to win, depending on how it's raced. Thanks for the great preview Croatia - nice to see you reporting again! 
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 04-01-2018 04:57
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How I wish I had my Lufthansa riders in the MG
Thanks for the mention and nice preview Croatia. Great to have you back reporting 
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| Kentaurus |
Posted on 04-01-2018 05:49
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My optimism about Chaves has significantly decreased with his lack of results in other punchy races. To the point where simply hoping for a podium seems to be a reach. But hey at least I've sent a full squad to this race... maybe that will make the difference.
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 04-01-2018 06:55
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I'd love to have my ICL riders too! Imagine I'd have.. uh, Kwiatkowski.
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 04-01-2018 14:47
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Startlist added, my bad to forget that before. The race will come later today!
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| maxime86 |
Posted on 04-01-2018 19:44
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Very happy with that races considering we didn't bring van def hugenhaben because we thought we could utilize his MO stat in better races for his abilities
Luckily kratochvila and durasek did great and picked up the slack with 2 top 10s. Hopefully this is the start for our push to regain that top stop that we lost a while ago. |
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 04-01-2018 20:07
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Oh well top 10 isnt the end of the world but I am disappointing not getting anymore out of this.
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| viking90 |
Posted on 04-01-2018 20:12
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Yay! Former team rider (Saab - Scania time, long time ago) Marcel Wyss with a win is nice to see!
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| knockout |
Posted on 04-01-2018 20:56
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Yes
The finish was kinda weird but i love the results. Wyss is one of my favourite riders in CT and Lufthansa one of my favourite teams so i love the winning move. Congrats Abi!
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 04-01-2018 23:49
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Still only 1 point out of C2 for us.
Good day for Kanepejs in the break for us, just a shame Bernas didn't try anything, I'd say that we were visible though and that's a success.
Really cool to see Wyss take the win, gratz Abhishek! And thanks for the great report Croatia!
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 05-01-2018 01:47
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Yay Wyss! It wasn't to be for us so glad he win in fine style too!
Disappointed by the result but not by the performance! Roux with great intent there, unlucky to have no companions/a headwind. However at the same time we have to say this was bit the start to the "Maynaissance" we wanted, and to be honest, st this point the one we needed.
Thanks for a lovely report Croatia, good to see you back!
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15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
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[ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 05-01-2018 02:25
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This result just shows me that Wyss still has it after his strong year with Vontobel a couple of seasons ago and that adding him, Hollenstein and Pellaud to my Swiss Puncher core should be a long term future target.
Got to say I'm not too happy with our result here but at least we continue to keep the ball rolling and pick up minor points in every outing, even when we have a disappointing one.
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