F1 Rejects Cycling Challenge: Tour de France underway!

[Londoner]

Performance And Cocktails have announced the signing of 7 more cyclists, bringing their total to 18 riders.

Name: Ricardo Lupo
Nationality: Italy
Age: 23
Primary Skills: Hills, Mountains, Endurance

Name: Len Kozlovsky
Nationality: Ukraine
Age: 26
Primary Skills: Prologue, Sprint, Cobbles

Name: Dougal Dalkeith
Nationality: Ireland
Age: 25
Primary Skills: Time Trial, Endurance, Acceleration

Name: Carlo Adjej
Nationality: Spain
Age: 20
Primary Skills: Sprint, Acceleration, Downhill

Name: Norman Sumner
Nationality: Britain
Age: 23
Primary Skills: Flat, Recovery, Downhill

Name: Sid Hatayuki
Nationality: Japan
Age: 27
Primary Skills: Hills, Downhill, Endurance

Name: Darren Matthews
Nationality: Britain
Age: 28
Primary Skills: Acceleration, Prologue, Endurance

Performance And Cocktails will enter the following riders for the Tour Down Under

Stefan Lomassonn
Wilson Ricky
Jamie Carling
Darren Matthews
Carlo Adjej
Brandon Plant
Norman Sumner

[andrew]

Firehawk's reserves are:

Thomas Tenpenny, Australian, 21
Phillippe de Jong, Dutch, 23
Siddharth Kumar, Indian, 24
Dominic Roberts, German, 24
Paolo da Silva, Brazilian, 22
Paul Murphy, British, 25
Hussain Inam, Pakistani, 28
Park Jung-Un, South Korean, 27

Throw dices on their skills and their apperances. Also, we'll also hire andrew's riders.

cheers

[The Lukas]

Tiger Cycling Team have announced the signing of 4 more cyclists, bringing their total to 13 riders
Rafal Piotrowski 26(Poland),Flat,Mountain,Fighting Spirit
Maxim Drozdov 21(Russia),Hills,Cobbles,Recovery
Takeru Watanabe 31(Japan),Fighting Spirit,Acceleration,Prologue
Martin Stensky 24(Slovakia),Downhill,Sprint,Acceleration
Siergiej Grishin 27(Russia),Fighting Spirit,Downhill,Flat

Tiger Cycling Team will enter the following riders for the Tour Down Under
1.Rafal Piotrowski
2.Siergiej Grishin
3.Janne Nordman
4.Andrei Garasimchuk
5.Nikolay Borsukov
6.Aleksandr Stefanovic
7.Takeru Watanabe

[Shadaza]

Is it possible for Credit Bancarotto to use this shirt??

http://pcmdaily.com/shirtdb.php?game=PCM08&type=mj&year=2009&team=2

The one most above. Made by Grillo.

I finally figured out how to allow custom jerseys!

[pasta_maldonado]

Could you please try the Foster's one again? From page 2 of this thread

[Shadaza]

Could you please try the Foster's one again? From page 2 of this thread

See, I had linked the wrong template, it only worked for the thumbnail.

This is the actual template you should use:

[DemocalypseNow]

I've decided to redesign the Alitalia shirt. It's now predominately red with some white and green. Here's the PNG;

http://i.imgur.com/gD3to.png

[QuickYoda41]

Not long before the season start, Minardi Cycling Team approached the following unattached riders:

Martin Jaeger
Quizo Quintana
Nicola Casella

I hope they're all ok to join my team.

New cyclists confrimed to the team:

Takuma Yumoto (Japanese, 27, flat, resistance, endurance)
Danilo Ceccon (Italian, 24, acceleration, TT, sprint)
Gert Van Lijwouk (Belgian, 25, fighting spirit, cobbles, mountain)
William Goodspeed (American, 24, prologue, flat, TT)
Paolo Lesallo (Italian, 28, downhill, mountain, hills)
Shane Reid (New Zealander, 30, flat, recovery, prologue)
Artem Tereshin (Russian, 21, Mountain, downhill, fighting spirit)

Minardi Cycling Team also announced that they intend to keep their shirt design so that the fans can easily recognize their favourites.

[Benetton]

Is it possible for Credit Bancarotto to use this shirt??

http://pcmdaily.com/shirtdb.php?game=PCM08&type=mj&year=2009&team=2

The one most above. Made by Grillo.

I finally figured out how to allow custom jerseys!

Nice! Thank you.

Bancarotto will announce a few new riders

Name: Stef Flugschreiber
Age: 23
Nationality: German
Primary Skills: Flat, Sprint, Acceleration

Vinny De Moor
Age: 27
Nationality: Belgium
Primary Skills: Fighting Spirit, Acceleration, Mountain

Morrighan Whitcombe
Age: 31
Nationality: United Kingdom
Primary Skills: Mountain, Downhill, Recovery

Mitchell Starecase
Age: 23
Nationality: United Kingdom
Primary Skills: Sprint, Downhill, Cobbles

Max Epoque
Age: 34
Nationality: United Kingdom
Primary Skills: Resistance, Endurance, Fighting Spirit

Marco Venerdi
Age: 20
Nationality: San Marino
Primary Skills: Cobbles, Sprint, Flat

Pablo Gargano
Age: 29
Nationality: Argentine
Primary Skills: Prologue, Sprint, Acceleration

[TomWazzleshaw]

Christ, Lansvale Racing looks tiny compared to these 20 and 30 rider superteams that are emerging. Not that I'm complaining because my team's gonna be absolute shite anyway regardless of what happens.

[DemocalypseNow]

Yeah I get the feeling Alitalia Parmalat Bianchi is going to need to strengthen its roster. Here are some more riders for the team;

Maarten Hooiveld [NED] (26yo, Flat, Hills, Sprint)
Gianni Marzano [ITA] (29yo, Flat, Sprint, Resistance)
Przemyslaw Kolodziejczak [POL] (22yo, Flat, Hills, Recovery)
Fermintxo Intxausti [EUS] (25yo, Mountain, Downhill, Endurance)

[FMecha]

Shadza, I think you forget Tenpenny in the page 1 list...

[pasta_maldonado]

FGC will sign all unattached riders

[DemocalypseNow]

Actually I'm probably going to need 20 riders on my squad so I'll add another three in a little while.

[Shadaza]

Shadaza, I think you forget Tenpenny in the page 1 list...

My bad, I missed him on the list (even though he was the first one!)
Thomas Tenpenny- Hills, Time Trial, Mountains

Fermintxo Intxausti [EUS] (25yo, Mountain, Downhill, Endurance)

Another moment of stupidity here, but where is EUS? *Edit* oh it is Basque.

[Shadaza]

Currently 12/16 teams have announced their 7 man line up confirmed. Just United Boxtel, Battery, Circus (Who only have 6 riders so far anyway) and Hitachi (Yet to confirm riders) to announce their tour plans.


1.Minardi Cycling Team

Daniele Rampazza
Thor Tromsen
Marcus Bennett
Rinaldo Ranozzi
Walt Beerrider
Philipe Viruolien
Gianluigi Ricchi

2.Twinings Earl Grey World Cycling Team

Craig West
James Davies
Freddie Donnelly
Louis Gaillard
Jose Vasquez
Jacob Denver
Ivan Shermetev


3.Alitalia Parmalat Bianchi

Claudio Castiglione
Stefano Firenze
Xavier De Vos
Artan Karimi
Piermario Saltamachhia
Vincenzo Mazzola
Lorenzo Romano

4.Lansvale Racing

Nasser Aqeem
Michael Chow
Roberto Di Magenta
Jean Velo
David Lee
Peiter Briggs
Jean-Marie van Fiets

5.Credit Bancarotto

Alexandre Vache
Fabiano Accelerara
Jase van der Boom
Artem Kraviz
Morgan Blosse
Stef Flugshreiber
Marco Venerdi

6.Team CIP
Gaitjil Goolagong
Borje Eriksson
Bart Bouwer
Volkan Necipoglu
Dong Yan
Slobodan Tomic
Olivier Corday

7.Fosters Good Cycle

Ed Kevin
Craig Beic
Mitchell Webb
Thomas Yorke
Daniel Sims
Dave Hedgehog
Jaap van Riebek

8.Performance and Cocktails Racing

Stefan Lomassonn
Wilson Ricky
Jamie Carling
Darren Matthews
Carlo Adjej
Brandon Plant
Norman Sumner

9.Tiger Cycling Team

1.Rafal Piotrowski
2.Siergiej Grishin
3.Janne Nordman
4.Andrei Garasimchuk
5.Nikolay Borsukov
6.Aleksandr Stefanovic
7.Takeru Watanabe

10.Equippe Fantomette

1-Alexandre Charpantier
2-Hiroshi Kekami
3-François Ndiekele
4-Ingo Voeller
5-Bernard Roullaint
6-Alexandre Cadinho
7-Jonson Edderly

11.Samsung Skoda Firehawk

1.Anand Singh
2.Jason Edison
3.Yudi Sucahyo
4.Nigel Roberts
5.Shuichi Iketani
6.Mauricio Sassetti
7.Hussain Inam

12.National Steroid Association Racing Team

Randall Clarks
John Vonn
Jacques LaRossa
Alexey Volkov
Janice Edwards
Laurens Buivart
Kevin Frederickson

13. Battery Energy Drink
Barry Firestone
Jan Ahlberg
Ryan Nelson
Simon Hill
Johan Kelstrom
Anthony de Vries
Roberto Vasquez de Silva

[FantometteBR]

Fantomette's Top 7

1-Alexandre Charpantier
2-Hiroshi Kekami
3-François Ndiekele
4-Ingo Voeller
5-Bernard Roullaint
6-Alexandre Cadinho
7-Jonson Edderly

[Benetton]

Credit Bancarotto's revised line up for Australian competition.

Alexandre Vache -Flat, Sprint, Cobbles
Fabiano Accelerara - TT, Sprint, Acceleration
Jase van der Boom- Endurance, Sprint, Flat
Artem Kraviz - Endurance, Sprint, Hills
Morgan Blosse- Endurance, Sprint, TT
Stef Flugshreiber -Flat, Sprint, Acceleration
Marco Venerdi - Cobbles, Sprint, Flat

[Shadaza]

Credit Bancarotto's revised line up for Australian competition.

Alexandre Vache -Flat, Sprint, Cobbles
Fabiano Accelerara - TT, Sprint, Acceleration
Jase van der Boom- Endurance, Sprint, Flat
Artem Kraviz - Endurance, Sprint, Hills
Morgan Blosse- Endurance, Sprint, TT
Stef Flugshreiber -Flat, Sprint, Acceleration
Marco Venerdi - Cobbles, Sprint, Flat

Normally I would prefer it if there were no changes made to the entry, though you did add many riders to the team after submitting entry so I will allow this. Does not take a genius to see what direction you want your team to go

[FMecha]

Sasetti and Inam, togheter with our original squad of Singh, Edison, Sucahyo, Roberts, and Iketani, will be at TDU.

[DemocalypseNow]

Credit Bancarotto's revised line up for Australian competition.

Alexandre Vache -Flat, Sprint, Cobbles
Fabiano Accelerara - TT, Sprint, Acceleration
Jase van der Boom- Endurance, Sprint, Flat
Artem Kraviz - Endurance, Sprint, Hills
Morgan Blosse- Endurance, Sprint, TT
Stef Flugshreiber -Flat, Sprint, Acceleration
Marco Venerdi - Cobbles, Sprint, Flat

Normally I would prefer it if there were no changes made to the entry, though you did add many riders to the team after submitting entry so I will allow this. Does not take a genius to see what direction you want your team to go

It does not matter if you have seven crappy sprinters, Lorenzo Romano will destroy all of them alone! And he doesn't even need to, he has Mazzola as a wingman!

[Aerospeed]

The NSA Racing Team will use their entire roster minus Wesley Duncan as their lineup for Australia.

[Shadaza]

I would like to get the Down Under Tour running soon, but there is still time to create more riders, create your own new custom jersey (or ask me to use one on the PCM website for you).

I would like, Battery, UBC, Hitachi and Circus to confirm their plans ASAP though.

[RonDenisDeletraz]

Barry Firestone - Flat, Sprint, TT
Jan Ahlberg - Hills, Prologue, SPrint
Ryan Nelson - Flat, Sprint, Acceleration
Simon Hill - Sprint, Cobles, FS

and some new riders

Johan Kelstrom - Hills, FS, Acceleration [SWE]
Anthony de Vries - Mountans, Hills, TT [NED]
Roberto Vasquez de Silva - Hills, Sprint, FS [ARG]

[Shadaza]

I will be running the Tour Down Under first stage imminently.
For Cycling Circus I will just run their 6 riders but for Hitachi and UBC (Unless otherwise corrected) I will run the following riders:

HItachi
Hirohito Kamazaki
Jorge Luis Hernandez
Jerry Fletcher
(The 3 confirmed Riders at the team)
Yuki Shizuno
Taki Takashita
Claudio Bonotellio
Franceso Rossi

UBC
Preston Senersen
Karl van de Graaf
Quinton Voss
Istvan Feher
Leonal Canfora
Jackson Bannister
Arnold Abil

The Tour Down Under is the first event on the calender and it happens significantly earlier than all the o her events (January!) so I will allow more rider signings and even team entries after the event.

[tristan1117]

UBC
Preston Senersen
Karl van de Graaf
Quinton Voss
Istvan Feher
Leonal Canfora
Jackson Bannister
Arnold Abil

That's fine.

[Shadaza]

The 2013 UCI World Cycling tour begins in Australia with the tour Down Under. 6 stages ranging from flat to hilly courses.
The first stage is mostly a flat affair though features a short climb at the end which may take it's toll on some riders that over exert themselves early on.

This stage also represents the debut of Lansvale Smash Repairs Racing and the National Steroid Association Racing Team.

111 riders across 16 teams are gunning for victory and of course an early lead in the World Tour. Good Luck.



It is an excellent start for Performance and Cocktails Racing with Wilson Ricky winning the stage on his debut and Stefan Lomassonn coming home a fine 3rd. Splitting them is home team Lansvale's Roberto di Magenta. As part of the Down Under Tour rules, riders have seconds reduced from their overall time as a reward for strong stage finishes and mid race sprints. Grishin, Clarks, Aqeem and Van de Graaf were the early break-away riders, though caught managed to finish with the main pack.

Lorenzo Romano nearly won the stage, he had a clear lead but 50m from the end he seemed to run out of steam and was denied by centimeters, though he does put his name on the World leaderboard with a bonus point for finishing the stage 4th, along with a point for Mitchell Webb who seemed to have moved from FSR to Fosters easily enough. Battery Energy and Team CIP tried to lead the field to the line to set up their sprinters but the front 5 riders all leached off their efforts whilst it was a tough day for Hitachi, Hitachi lead the peloton for the majority of the race and because of the strain 3 of their riders fell away from the pack and lost 2 minutes on the field. So many riders finished together that all 16 teams are on the same score after day 1.

Day 2 offers a much tougher stage and is most likely we will see a clear group of leaders emerge in the standings.

[DemocalypseNow]

Lorenzo [Romano] did everything he could, but I feel the problem was Vincenzo [Mazzola] wasn't assisting him well enough. We need to work on our sprint build-up technique. We'll hope for better tomorrow.

[Shadaza]

Abdulrashid takes tour lead!


Cycling Circus's Nasser Abdulrashid won the stage and with it overall lead of the tour today on the first of two hill stages on this tour.
Abdulrashid secured his victory by outsmarting the five otherriders who broke forward on the first of 4 laps( Castiglione, Abil, Nordman, Volkov, Kraviz) around Sterling. For awhile it looked like the superb solo effort of Slobodan Tomic would be enough for the victory, the Team Cip rider broke at the half way point of the race on the steep climb for mountain points and rode superbly on his own for a long while, only being caught by the break away six by the beginning of the 3rd circuit.

The top seven then rode together at an intense pace, too intense for Kraviz and Volkov. Tomic and Nordman teamed up and made a dash for the victory only to be reeled in and past first by Abdulrashid working on his own and then Castiglione and Abil as a makeshift team. There were many other hill specialist riders that made breaks but they came too late, they relied too much on Performance and Cocktails to lead the field and it backfired only just catching Kraviz at the flag.


Overall the best team today was Alitalia with 2nd, 8th and 20th with their top 3 riders putting them just under a minute ahead of the Minardi team whilst Team CIP and Battery Energy are still within a shout for the teams honors. It was a terrible day for Credit Bancarotto, their sprint focused team didn't have the best of days yesterday either.

[AndreaModa]

Ah crap, I was about to finalise my team just now. That line-up is fine by me though for the time being.

The other Hitachi riders not present at the Tour Down Under that appeared in the previous Tour de France will be re-signed for the new season.

In addition to them, the following riders have been signed:

Daryl Foley (GBR) Flat, Prologue, Cobbles
Francois Le Bleu (FRA) Hills, Endurance, Resistance
Sochiro Hamasaki (JPN) Flat, Endurance, Acceleration
Tadi Nokaro (JPN) Mountain, Hills, Resistance
Daniel Morales (ESP) Hills, Time Trial, Resistance
Harry Pritchard (GBR) Resistance, Cobbles, Sprint
Esteban Fuentes (ESP) Mountain, Resistance, Recovery
Oleg Brutschev (RUS) Flat, Hills, Fighting Spirit
Paddy Quinn (IRE) Flat, Endurance, Sprint

Which should bring Hitachi's total count to 18 riders!

[Aerospeed]

For future references, the team can simply be called the NSA Team.

[TomWazzleshaw]

For future references, the team can simply be called the NSA Team.

You should call it the National Association of Steroids Association Racing Team, or NASA for short.

[andrew]

where are my riders??

[Shadaza]

where are my riders??

Fmecha hired all of them for Team FIrehawk, then decided not to enter any of them for this race.

[RonDenisDeletraz]

Where are all the Battery riders on the standings?

[pasta_maldonado]

Looks like the FGC riders are determined not to do that well....again!!

Out of interest, where are all the riders in the standings, and do you think the remaining stages might suit the team?

[DemocalypseNow]

Pretty good performance in stage 2, but I still expect more from Monteverdi.

[Shadaza]

Where are all the Battery riders on the standings?

7th.Vasquez de Silva +2:26 (Sprinter and GC runner)
21st. Johan Kelstrom +3:34 (Leader 1)
23rd. Jan Ahlberg +3:34 (Leader 2)
28th. Anthony de Vries +3:34 (Team mate)
69th. Ryan Nelson +10:34 (Sprinter being used to help other sprinters)
80th.Barry Firestone +10:34 (Sprinter being used to help the other sprinters)
101st.Simon Hall +17:25 (See above)

Vasquez may not have any sprint points but is in good shape for a good result, Kelstrom, Ahlberg and de Vries may be in for a good result if they are in a good break. The sprinters have a good chance to score a hatful of points.

Looks like the FGC riders are determined not to do that well....again!!

Out of interest, where are all the riders in the standings, and do you think the remaining stages might suit the team?

13th. Daniel Sims +2:26 (Team leader)
38th. Thomas Yorke +6:02 (team mate)
46th. Craig Beic +7:11 (luxury teammate, i.e fetches water)
47th. Dave Hedgehog +7:11 (Backup sprinter, should help Webb)
52nd. Mitchell Webb +9:27 (Sprinter with a points finish already)
83. Jaap van Riebeck +10:34 (team mate)
90th. Ed Kevin +10:38 (Tried to break last stage, got less than a minute ahead and gave up, his job is to go for breaks.)

Well Mitchell Webb as your lead sprinter and Daniel Sims on the hills means you are competitive on both surfaces. Though maybe you should have brought Klaus Fahrrad with you as his main specialty is hills.

[TomWazzleshaw]

How are my clowns at Lansvale going?

[FMecha]

Positions for our teams, please?