This month's races:
1. Lillestrom GP
2. Costa Rican Mountain Classic
3. Circulo de Juarez
4. Tour of Slovenie
5. Nelspruit Classic
6. Tour d'Andorra
1. Goldcorp took the win on the cobbles, and with it 85 points. 5th and 7th for Proximus actually made them the 2nd best scorer on 62, ahead of World Cycling Centre on 52 and cycleYorkshire n 48.
2. A number of climbers took on PCT competition in Costa Rica, with Kulczyk and Repsol earning Top 8 finishes, for some decent points.
3. A tight sprinters battle went down to the wire, Castaneda holding off Haller by 1 second, and his team top-scoring by 2 points with a total of 97, after In-n-Out won the last stage of the race. 79 for Sauber, 76 for Kulczyk and a good 69 for SanCor.
4. In-n-out's triumphs continued at the Tour de Slovenie, this time beating PCT competition for a huge haul of 273 points. Reus winning the race, Kreuziger in 5th overall - and very nearly higher. The highest single race score for a CT team all season. Sauber, Garmin and cycleYorkshire also scoring well from the race.
5. 21st for Boily and Thomson as best African in 23rd. 5 points for World Cycling Centre.
6. Andorra saw the second highest single race score for a CT team this season, as Valls led Repsol to a total of 203. Climbing rivals Kulczyk followed on 143, with 141 for Reddit. 79 for Philips and Campari, then 78 for Balkan. Lots of points earned across the division, only 3 teams going away empty handed.
No surprise then that In-n-out topped the CT division in June, with regular points putting Kulczyk 2nd, to outscore Repsol. Sauber in 4th, while leaders World Cycling Centre were the 5th best team.
Team
LIL
COS
JUA
SLO
NEL
AND
June
RD
1
In-n-Out p/b Carrefour
9
0
95
273
0
1
378
17
2
Kulczyk - DMTEX
38
36
76
0
0
143
293
14
3
Repsol - Honda
8
24
0
0
0
203
235
9
4
Sauber Petronas Racing
35
0
79
54
0
7
175
17
5
World Cycling Centre
52
0
97
0
5
11
165
14
6
Team Reddit
17
0
0
0
0
141
158
9
7
Goldcorp - Nordstrom Rack
85
0
38
0
0
0
123
12
8
cycleYorkshire
48
0
29
39
0
1
117
17
9
Philips - Continental
11
0
26
0
0
79
116
12
10
Garmin - BikeNZ Cycling
4
0
0
47
0
64
115
14
11
Campari - Super Dry
0
7
6
3
0
79
95
19
12
Proximus Continental Team
62
0
28
0
0
0
90
14
13
Azteca - NBCSN
0
7
14
0
0
59
80
14
14
The Balkan Cycling Project
0
0
0
0
0
78
78
17
15
Xero Racing p/b Octagon
21
0
31
0
0
25
77
14
16
SanCor
5
2
60
0
0
0
67
14
17
Aeropostal Venezuela Ciclismo
0
0
36
0
0
26
62
12
18
Wiggle p/b Boardman Bikes
7
0
12
0
0
31
50
12
19
Andorra Cycling Project
14
0
0
0
0
34
48
14
20
VMP - Argon 18
0
0
0
1
0
36
37
12
21
Telia-Brussels Airlines
0
0
0
0
0
28
28
7
22
Eddie Stobart
0
0
0
0
0
14
14
14
23
Statoil Pro Cycling
0
0
2
0
0
1
3
12
24
Löbauer Stadtwerke - Etixx
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
7
Make that former leaders, because In-n-Out now lead the way, taking a 24 point lead over World Cycling Centre, as both pass the 1000 point mark. It's becoming a 3 horse race for the division title, with Kulczyk only 68 points from the top.
cycleYorkshire remain 4th, just ahead of Repsol who swap with Philips for the final automatic promotion position. Good progress being made by Sauber, up 4 places to 7th, and Goldcorp, up 2 places to 8th. This comes at the expense of Azteca, Xerp and Campari.
Reddit have switched places with Telia, while Aeropostal are up 2 and now in 15th place. Gains too for Balkan and SanCor, pushing Lobauer down to 20th. Garmin finally started scoring points with a couple of good races, more than tripling their season tally. It lifts them up 3 places, and the remain the least raced team too. Eddie Stobart, VMP and Statoil all shift down 1.
Reddit stand out projections wise, as that would lift them up to 7th. The Top 5 PpRD teams are all currently in the Top 5 though.
Team
Total
Rd
PpRD
Proj
1
3
In-n-Out p/b Carrefour
1047
73
14.34
1721
2
1
World Cycling Centre
1023
65
15.74
1889
3
2
Kulczyk - DMTEX
979
72
13.60
1632
4
4
cycleYorkshire
785
59
13.31
1597
5
6
Repsol - Honda
779
65
11.98
1438
6
5
Philips - Continental
748
72
10.39
1247
7
11
Sauber Petronas Racing
614
75
8.19
983
8
10
Goldcorp - Nordstrom Rack
587
70
8.39
1007
9
8
Azteca - NBCSN
584
67
8.72
1046
10
7
Xero Racing p/b Octagon
584
68
8.59
1031
11
9
Campari - Super Dry
560
73
7.67
920
12
12
Proximus Continental Team
476
71
6.70
804
13
14
Team Reddit
455
45
10.11
1213
14
13
Telia-Brussels Airlines
399
59
6.76
811
15
17
Aeropostal Venezuela Ciclismo
311
54
5.76
691
16
15
Andorra Cycling Project
307
62
4.95
594
17
16
Wiggle p/b Boardman Bikes
303
56
5.41
649
18
19
The Balkan Cycling Project
278
71
3.92
470
19
20
SanCor
258
57
4.53
544
20
18
Löbauer Stadtwerke - Etixx
210
59
3.56
427
21
24
Garmin - BikeNZ Cycling
161
43
3.74
449
22
21
Eddie Stobart
150
63
2.38
286
23
22
VMP - Argon 18
118
65
1.82
218
24
23
Statoil Pro Cycling
69
52
1.33
160
Valls retakes the individual rankings lead and extends his advantage over closest rival Penasa. Harrison slips to 3rd, while Slovenie champion Kai Reus now sits 4th - up from 42nd position.
Haller and Salleh moved up, while Cataldo and Karnulin enter the Top 10. Van Keirsbulck, Roux, Bardet and Thwaites go into the Top 20.
Well, this is most likely our last month in a direct promotion spot in the season, unless Valls dominates Bulgaria - which i know it wouldn't be surprising now - and Philips and Yorkshire have bad months. But after August we can expect a big drop in the rankings to the region of 8th-10th, until Valls comes back in October to close the season.
Meanwhile, the Individual Title looks kinda safe, with a 110 points gap to Penasa, and no one else having enough races left to reach 600 points, which is the very least that Valls will reach at the end of the season, with something in the region of 650 to 700 the most likely outcome for him.
I would say that it's good that we have more RD's left to do than all the teams in the promotion battle except Yorkshire, but given that will have to race Japan, where Cunego will be at best a top15 contender like in Romandie...
Thanks SN! Always great to see everybody's months' work.
It was a good month for us, the expectations were very high. Costa Rica and Slovenie were complete dissapointements with absolutely wasted RDs. Andorra wasn't a disaster but we had hoped for more and Lilestrom went good but there weren't many points available.
Super happy with my pprd for the first time since the season started. Certainly put a grin on my face. The top 4 seems to have a major gap, but we're still in contention for that 5th spot. July and August should be strong months too, so I hope we can keep this up.
I wasn't expecting to be top 5 but this is a new level of bad, one I didn't expect.
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Pleasantly surprised to see us still in 6th position with a big gap to 7th. If not for those two crashes in Lillestrom and Juarez, we would've been in a comfortable 4th position. Andorra definitely helped with the recovery. Bardet moving into the top 20 is a great reflection of how good he has been for us.
Another tricky month for us in July with a hilly and a mountain stage race and a cobbled classic. Hopefully we can keep our consistency going.
2 riders in the top 5, 6 riders in the top 35 and currently riding in 1st, I'm super happy with our team's performance this month and season so far.
However, I don't expect to stay in front of World Cycling Center for very long as they have more race days left than us, but hopefully we can give them a run for their money
Just a single month ago folks wanted to hand WCC the title and I warned that this was significantly pre-mature in my CT #5 response. How rapidly things can change! An awesome month for In-n-Out better reflects my pre-season expectations for them as out-and-out title favourites. I'm sure that key guys like Reus still have plenty of RD's left with plenty the type of races that suit him/them on the horizon. However exceeding even our own expectations in terms of cobbled calendar performance does mean that WCC remain in the ball-park of contesting for the title all the way to the wire. Looks like the top 4 are starting to detach themselves in terms of ppRD from the challenging pack, but lots of swings and roundabout still to be expected.
In general quite happy with how the month worked out in securing a steady 5th position keeping the points accumulation rolling. Andorra was always going to be very low scoring for WCC, but we avoided that charactersing the month as a whole. Juarez worked out very well for us, I had fingers crossed pre-race, but was holding my breath and steeling for disappointment, particularly after stage 1, but things came together.
Hoping that JAC creeps into the top 20 at the end of the next month, and Boily set to make a good bound up the ladder,perhaps towards the top 10, but Harrison and particularly Bush look vulnerable to slipping down and out of the top 10 given the balance of RD usage. Both should still maintain top 20 I reckon though, so if Boily and JAC keep cementing their own results, outside chance of 4 in top 20 at season's end; a good target to aim for at any rate!
Pretty good month for us. Sitting in 8th is most likely the highest we will end with the current races left. However I am not getting my hopes up for more.
A strong month for us boosts us up 4 to 7th in the rankings, hopefully we can keep this good run of form going as it's a very tight fight in the lower top 10 and the positions could end up being absolutely crucial come the end of the season.
- and Philips and Yorkshire have bad months. But after August we can expect a big drop in the rankings to the region of 8th-10th, until Valls comes back in October to close the season.
