Circulo de Juarez
The race was a bit dissapointment from our side. Compare to extremly big competition from the sprinters prospective we hope for a bit more but at the end we must be happy for the results that our leader Selig and the team provided us.
He finished first, second and third stage on 9th place, 4th stage on 5th place and last stage on 7th place.
Primožič was in a breakaway in 2nd stage but they were cought by peloton before last few km.
Coppa Placci
Lilian Calmejane did his best. After trying to get two leaders who attacked in last few km he burrned a lot of energy and lost the power for a sprint. He still showed great performance and finished on 5th place. KOrošec finished on 11th place and Jaka Primožič ur young rider on 19th place.
Tour of Eritrea
First stage stared with bigg dissapointment. Our leader for GC or at least for mountain stage had a flat tyre just before the 10km to finish line. Half of the team tried to help him but the still lost more than 2minutes. Selig on the other side or sprint leader was under the stress of Ilno's flat tyre and couldnt get other team mates togetter for the train. He finished on only 20th place.
Instead of taking points on smaller hills they were sitting behind and waiting for the last clim of the day but it was a big mistake. Both Bystrom and Ilno could take KOM points befor the last climb. All riders were cought by leaders from peloton around 20km to finish line.
Iino Tomoyuki did finished on 33rd place in a front of Christian Munoz on 38th place.
In fourth stage Knox and Iino Tomoyuki went in a breakaway again and this time Ilno listned advice. He took few KOM points and finished on fourth place in KOM classification.
The last two stages didn't went good for us.
Tomoyuki Iino at the end finished on 5th place in KOM Classification.
Kuurne - Brussel - Kuurne
Our team did their best to bring leader Pieter Vanspeybrouckin final part of race as safely as it can go. He felt strong enought and attacked 18km to go as he is not agood sprinter and the finis doesn't sute him. He was soon cought by the peloton. In last few meters he try his bast with sprinting and finished on 12th plce which is less then we hoped.
Baltic Chain Tour
Abraha finished the highest in prologue on 7th place which was slight surprice for us.
For this race we decided and brought a bit different train for our sprinter. We had available Abraha, Korošec and McEnvoy. Sellig liked this and finished on 6th place 2nd and third stage. In fourth and fifth stage he finished on 7th place.
Overall Selig finished on 8th place and Abraha on 17th place.
GP Izola
Expectation for this race which is a home race were big if not the biggest.
After the dissapointment last year with Barbin who finished on 10th place this year we brought extremly strong team.
We wanted to do a race as hard it can get and Rok Korošec did a great job with spriting the peloton 24km to go.
After the last big hill Boswell atacked and our McEvoy and Calmejane followed him with a few other strong riders. This was a leading group (8 riders). In last 1.5km McEvoy was in a good spot for sprinting and Calmejane was a bit behind but they knew that it will be hard to win.
In last few meters ''Arrow from Dolenjska'' went faster and took the victory in SLovenian race. Marko Kump form HelloFresh team took the win and McEvoy finished on 2nd place.
We allmost couldn't wish for better realisation and finish of the races. even that HelloFresh took the race we are extremly happy.
Calmejane finished on 7th place, Rok Korošec on 15th place, Luka Pibernik on 22nd place and Sven Erik Bystrom on 26th place.
Roma Maxima
Jens Keukeleire was part of a breakaway in a start but he was dropped on a climb.
Pieter Vanspeybrouck finished on 15th place.
Lincoln GP
To until 14km team did great job to protect the leader. Vanspeybrouck couldn't wait and attacked. a few km later he was joind by three other riders.
The peloton cought the leading group but they still managed to sprint for a win. Pieter Vanspeybrouck finished on 4th place.
USA Pro Cycling Challenge
On a prologue to USA race Rok Korošec finished on 13th place in a front of Hugues Mottin on 15th place.
On a second race it come to a slight confusion but Selig managed to sprint and finished on 8th place. Korošec and Pibernik finished on 11 and 12th places.
On third place Selig finished on 6th place and on 4th stage Selig was away from a first win in this team for only a few milimeters. He finished on 2nd place.
Lisbon Classic
In Portugal we hoped on a bit harder race but our two leaders didn't had anough power for a sprint. Calmejane and Bystrom finished on 20 and 21st places.