F1 Rejects Cycling Challenge: Tour de France underway!

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 17 Nov 2012, 19:47

Confirmed riders for the Tour of Flanders:

1.Lansvale

Naseef Aqeem
Roberto Di Magenta
Jean-Marie Van Fiets
Jean Velo
Kang Xian Bin
Nicolas Pederson
Giovani Bicicletta
Michael Chow

2.NSA

Juan Pablo Martinez
Randall Clarks
John Vonn
David Clarkson
Kevin Frederickson
Jacques LaRossa
Wesley Duncan
Colin Thompson

3.Equipe Fantomette

Rui Miranda
François Ndiekele
Hiroshi Kekami
Alexandre Cadinho
Norbert Centrone
Demetrio Molina
Piercarlo Balder
Bernard Roullaint

4.Alitalia-Parmalat Bianchi

Mika PYORA
Raphael LE CLERCQ
Lorenzo ROMANO
Vincenzo MAZZOLA
Maarten HOOIVELD
Gianni MARZANO
Xavier DE VOS
Artan KARIMI

5.Twinings Earl Grey

James Davies
Ivan Shermetev
Jacob Denver
Jean Gauthier
Shinji Miyamoto
Jose Vasquez
Freddie Donnelly
Louis Gaillard

6.Performance and Cocktails

Jaime Carling
Stefan Lomassonn
John Jaywick
Wilson Ricky
Hugh Englemann
Daniel Martins
Len Kozlovsky
Dougal Dalkeith

7.Fosters

David O'Reilly
Jermaine d'Alberto
Mitchell Webb
Tomas Yorke
Matsohiro Mizuhara
Dave Hedgehog
Denis van Walwijk
Terry Wright

8.UBC

Arnold Abil
Jackson Bannister
Preston Senerson
Quinton Voss
Frank Motarhouse
Chilserx Dawson
Giacomo Canfora
Istvan Feher

9.Minardi

Marcus Bennett
Nicola Casella
William Goodspeed
Martin Jaeger
Rinaldo Ranozzi
Gianluigi Ricchi
Takuma Yumoto
Gert van Lijwouk

10.Hitachi

Jerry Fletcher
Yuki Shizzuno
Daryl Foley
Francois Le Bleu
Sochiro Hamasaki
Harry Pritchard
Oleg Brutschev
Paddy Quinn

QuickYoda41 · Post by **QuickYoda41** » 17 Nov 2012, 20:23

Minardi's riders for the next tour:

Marcus Bennett
Nicola Casella
William Goodspeed
Martin Jaeger
Rinaldo Ranozzi
Gianluigi Ricchi
Takuma Yumoto
Gert van Lijwouk

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 17 Nov 2012, 21:00

Shadaza wrote:Confirmed riders for the Tour of Flanders:

Here's Twinings' entry.

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 17 Nov 2012, 21:13

Hitachi's entry for Flanders:

Jerry Fletcher
Yuki Shizzuno
Daryl Foley
Francois Le Bleu
Sochiro Hamasaki
Harry Pritchard
Oleg Brutschev
Paddy Quinn

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 18 Nov 2012, 21:30

Battery Energy, Team Firehawk, Team CIP, CBR and Tiger to hand in their plans. Then we will be ready to go!

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 18 Nov 2012, 21:52

Shadaza, any chance you could give me a list of riders Alitalia haven't used so far this season? I might release any I don't see having a future at the team.

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 18 Nov 2012, 23:33

kostas22 wrote:Shadaza, any chance you could give me a list of riders Alitalia haven't used so far this season? I might release any I don't see having a future at the team.

Sure,
The riders that have yet to be used are:

Montella (Prologue,TT, Flat)
Monteverdi (Mountains, Resistance, Fighting Spirit)
Pyora (Cobbles, Sprint, Endurance)

Of course you have Pyora down for Flanders.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 18 Nov 2012, 23:57

Shadaza wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Shadaza, any chance you could give me a list of riders Alitalia haven't used so far this season? I might release any I don't see having a future at the team.

Sure,
The riders that have yet to be used are:

Montella (Prologue,TT, Flat)
Monteverdi (Mountains, Resistance, Fighting Spirit)
Pyora (Cobbles, Sprint, Endurance)

Of course you have Pyora down for Flanders.

That's fine then, Montella and Moteverdi are definitely going to get run outs as the season goes along so no scope for any rider releases.

Benetton · Post by **Benetton** » 19 Nov 2012, 08:52

For Tour de Flanders Bancarotto enters

Alexandre Vache (Team Leader)
Fabiano Accelerara
Jase van der Boom
Artem Kraviz
Stef Flugshreiber
Mitchell Starecase
Max Epoque
Marco Venerdi

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 19 Nov 2012, 12:25

Daniel Martins wrote:I would like to go to the Basque tour, boss!

Craig West wrote:Basque? We're in friggin' Belgium you nonce!

Daniel Martins wrote:I know. But the Basque tour is next and I just wanted to make sure you are counting on me.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 19 Nov 2012, 16:13

The Original Five of Singh, Edison, Sucahyo, Roberts, and Iketani will always take part, injuries excepted. Here are our fleet for next round:

Singh
Edison
Sucahyo
Roberts
Iketani
Andrews
Murphy
da Silva

The Lukas · Post by **The Lukas** » 19 Nov 2012, 18:03

Tiger entry for Flanders
Pavel Gafurov
Andrei Garasimchuk
Salimgirey Rasulov
Siergiej Grishin
Maxim Drozdov
Martin Stensky
Nikolay Borsukov
Takeru Watanabe

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 19 Nov 2012, 22:25

Valanthi
De Vries
Ricard
Muller
Ahlberg
Firestone
Nelson
Vasquez de Silva

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 20 Nov 2012, 16:44

Team CIP for Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.

Oosterling, Sand, Goolagong, Eriksson, Tomic, McRae, Bouwer, Payne

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 21 Nov 2012, 02:09

With all 16 teams entered, the entry list is now closed.

Who will triumph on the Belgium cobblestones?

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 21 Nov 2012, 02:59

Shadaza wrote:With all 16 teams entered, the entry list is now closed.

Who will triumph on the Belgium cobblestones?

Obviously it will be Flanders native Xavier De Vos

Benetton · Post by **Benetton** » 21 Nov 2012, 06:16

Alexandre Vache for sure!

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 21 Nov 2012, 06:28

Obviously it'll be Naseef Aqeem with backup from Roberto di Magenta and Kang XIan Bin :mrgreen:

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 21 Nov 2012, 19:25

Round 4 Brugge-Oudenaarde

The 250km solo stage introduces cobblestones to the tour and what a huge impact it made on the race. Numerous riders fell, others were struck by punctures and the lap nature of the final section led to many riders being flagged and forced to call it a day.
Of the 126 riders only 73 finished.

The cobble stones coupled with short steep hills lead to a very large field spread where it was rare for groups to include more than 10 riders.
Eventually 17 riders went in to the final lap with a shot of victory.

Foster's Terry Wright pulled off an excellent break within the last 20km of the stage to take victory after falling just short of victory in San Remo using the same trick. Wright owes a lot of his success to the riders he spent the last half of the stage with, who happen to fill the next seven spots in the top 10. Molina finally takes Fantomette's first points finish of the season whilst Jaywick takes a deserved 3rd place, probably being the rider that worked the hardest to catch the break away. Marco Venerdi in 4th did very little to help catch the field in front, that is explained by the fact that team leader Vache was in the front group, however once it became clear that the front group would not take victory, Venerdi took on the role of lead CBR rider.

Oosterling did very well to finish 5th as he had suffered a puncture on the 3rd section of cobbles whislt John Vonn and Abraham Simon had quiet runs to 6th and 8th, solid runs as expected of them from their respective teams. Mika Pyora in 7th was not Alitalia's team leader, that went to Xavier de Vos. Along with Le Clerg Pyora was tasked of carrying the team leader but for whatever reason de Vos could not keep up and Pyora and Le Clerq abandoned him to make their own pursuit on the points table.

9th through to 14th and Vache in 17th were the riders that first broke forward when the cobbles started and by lap 2 they had such a big lead it looked like they would be dead cert' for victory. However they did not work together well at all and pushed each other so hard that they along with the flat specialist riders that broke away at the start of the stage, fell away one by one until Bart Bouwer was alone at the front, the mess did not work and eventually they all compressed back together exhausted whilst the likes of Terry Wright caught up.

A thought has to be spared for Nigel Roberts, the Firehawk rider was one of the favourites for victory when he fell off his bike just before the half way mark. The rest of the Firehawk team exhausted themselves trying to help Roberts and the Brit managed to nearly overturn a 20 minute deficit and just caught sight of the tail end of the point runners by the end of the stage.

Team CIP took the victory. Alitalia match their worst result of they year with 2nd place. Foster's, the team with the stage winner, come home in 3rd ahead of Lansvale and Fantomette, both of whom pulling off their best performances of the season so far.

Three teams failed to get the minimum of 3 riders to the finish to be classified. Firehawk's game plan failed when Roberts fell and the riders all fell away after helping him recover whilst Battery Energy and Twining's frankly sucked :lol:

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The full results:

http://www.2shared.com/document/0WdbZOym/Ronde_Vlaanderen_Brugge-Oudena.html

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 21 Nov 2012, 19:32

Finally, bathplugdammit!

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 21 Nov 2012, 20:18

As you would expect with a different top 5 at each event the leader board is a little jittery. None of the points scorers in Flanders had scored in any of the other events, so that is 10 more names to add to the points board!

All teams have now at least scored some points.
Here is the leader-board.

1.Hitachi Pro Tour 416
2.Alitalia Parmalat Bianchi 228
3.Fosters Good Cycle 219
4.Performance and Cocktails Racing 151
5.Team CIP 146
6.NSA Racing Team 131
7.Cycling Circus 129
8.Samsung Skoda Firehawk 108
=9.Minardi 93
=9.Twinings Earl Grey Cycling Team 93
11.United Boxtel Cycling Team 89
12.Equipe Fantomette 80
13.Credit Bancarotto 67
14.Battery Energy 39
15.Lansvale Smash Repairs 16
16.Tiger Cylcing Team 5

The next round is the GP al Pais Vasco, The Tour of the Basque. It is mostly hill stages with the odd mountain grade climb. The final stage of the short 6 stage tour is an 18km hill time trial. Each team may enter 8 riders.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 21 Nov 2012, 20:26

What the hell happened to my team?

andrew · Post by **andrew** » 21 Nov 2012, 21:05

Can I put the riders I made into my own team please?

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 21 Nov 2012, 21:47

Equipe Fantomette will add another biker to the fray...

Üyük Çeynan
Age: 26
Country: Turkey
Primary Skills: Cobbles, Mountain, Fighting Spirit

And the team will run with these 8

Demetrio Molina
Hiroshi Kekami
Üyük Ceynan
Alexandre Cadinho
Ingo Voeller
Piercarlo Balder
Alexandre Charpantier
François Ndiekele

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 21 Nov 2012, 21:56

For the Basque Tour:
Alexey Volkov
Jason Melbourne
Laurens Buivart
David Clarkson
Colin Thompson
James Collins
Janice Edwards
Wesley Duncan

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 21 Nov 2012, 23:05

Will wait until a full tour profile is released before naming my riders. Although you can expect Alessio Monteverdi to make his first appearance this season.

QuickYoda41 · Post by **QuickYoda41** » 22 Nov 2012, 02:15

Minardi's team for the Basque Tour:

Arnets Barriotxega
Davide Cozzo
Raul Julandro Jimenez
Paolo Lesallo
Quizo Quintana
Artem Tereshin
Vincenzo Tolano
Thor Tromsen

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 27 Nov 2012, 23:14

To all those expecting Mountains in the Basque tour I apologise

I got it mixed with the Catalunya tour.

Instead it is 4 regular hill stages, 1 flat and one hilly time trial.

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 28 Nov 2012, 02:30

Please change the Roster for the NSA Team in the Tour Formerly known as the Mountains in the Basque as so:
Alexey Volkov (as before)
Jason Melbourne (as before)
Laurens Buivart (as before)
David Clarkson (as before)
Colin Thompson (as before)
Wesley Duncan (as before)
John Vonn
Jacques LaRossa

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 28 Nov 2012, 03:24

Lansvale will run the following riders for the next tour:

Naseef Aqueem
Giovani Bicicletta
Tamak Bisiklet
Jizdni Kolo
Jean-Marie van Fiets
Kang Xian Bin
Peiter Briggs
Nicolas Pedersen

And continuing with my trend of being too lazy to create my own riders, we'd like to know if there's any riders on the free market we can snare.

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 28 Nov 2012, 03:26

UBC's lineup for the Basque Tour

Preston Senerson
Arnold Abil
Istvan Feher
Jackson Bannister
Chilserx Dawson
Frank Mortarhouse
Leandro Carabon
Giacomo Canfora

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 28 Nov 2012, 05:20

Alitalia-Parmalat Bianchi lineup for the Basque Tour;

Stefano Firenze
Claudio Castiglione
Przemyslaw Kolodziejczak
Maarten Hooiveld
Raphael Le Clercq
Xavier De Vos
Piermario Saltalamacchia
Artan Karimi

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 28 Nov 2012, 17:16

Everyone at Foster's has just sobered up after their first win.... :lol:

Foster's lineup for the Basque Tour:

Klaus Fahrrad
Daniel Sims
Terry Wright
Jermaine d'Alberto
Andy Badger
Antonio Arena
Craig Beic
Dave Hedgehog

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 28 Nov 2012, 20:05

Alrighty, Hitachi's team to continue our world domination! :twisted:

Jerry Fletcher
Katsuko Hondo
Yuki Shizzuno
Franceso Rossi
Francois Le Bleu
Sochiro Hamasaki
Daniel Morales
Oleg Brutschev

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 28 Nov 2012, 20:06

AndreaModa wrote:Alrighty, Hitachi's team to continue our world domination!

Not if Foster's have anything to do with it!

And also, shocking pictures have emerged of the Hitachi team boss....

Post by **Londoner** » 28 Nov 2012, 22:10

Performance and Cocktails will be sending the following riders

Tomas Wojtyra
Jaime Carling
Stefan Lomassonn
Brandon Plant
Ricardo Lupo
Norman Sumner
Sid Hatayuki
Daniel Martins

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 29 Nov 2012, 07:22

What riders I haven't used yet?

Benetton · Post by **Benetton** » 29 Nov 2012, 10:22

Credit Bancarotto enters

1. Rafael Verwest
2. Carey Brice
3. Constant Lagg
4. Uno Sandberg
5. Artem Kraviz
6. Vinny de Moor
7. Moorighan Whitcombe
8. Mitchell Starecase

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 29 Nov 2012, 15:17

andrew wrote:Can I put the riders I made into my own team please?

Sorry for avoiding this question. There is space for another team though I am not sure if it is fair to take the riders from Team Firehawk, I think you guys need to come to an agreement.

In the mean time feel free to come up with a team name and add some more riders if you wish.

Please use this template.

Team Name:
Three Letter Abbreviation:
Colour Scheme:

and for Riders

Name:
DOB: (or just the year)
Nationality:
Primary skills: (Pick 3)

andrew · Post by **andrew** » 29 Nov 2012, 15:33

Team Name: Mabbazana
Three Letter Abbreviation: Maz
Colour Scheme: Blue at front and red at back

and for Riders

Name: John Firclont
DOB: 1993
Nationality: British

Name: Jimmy Kay
DOB: 1993
Nationality: USA

Name: Vladamir mechavic
DOB: 1994
Nationality: Russian

Name: Fernando Vettel
DOB: 1989
Nationality: german

Name: Sebastian Alonso
1990
Spainish

Through dice on skills