Grand Prix Rejects

Wow, some of the riders have interesting roles in the team compared to what they are good at

Where are all the Tiger riders on the standings?

Down Under Tour stages 3 and 4.

Stages 3 and 4 are very flat stages and should offer plenty of opportunity to sprinters.

Stage 3 (No screens because game crashed) was won in emphatic style by Alitalia's Lorenzo Romano as he made the perfect run after drafting from his team mate. 2nd was Minardi's Daniele Rampazza, who could use the 6 second bonus in his hunt for GC honours and 3rd was Fosters rider Mitchell Webb. 3 of the top five riders from stage 1 made the top 5 here so they are obviously in good form.

Stage 3

1.Lorenzo Romano, Alitalia Parmalat Bianchi
2.Daniele Rampazza, Minardi
3.Mitchell Webb, Fosters Godd Cycle
4.Volkan Necipoglu, Team CIP
5.Wilson Ricky, Performance and Cocktail

A few riders fell behind the peloton but none of the top riders, so overall the lead is unchanged.



Stage 4
It has been a bad few days for Credit Bancarotta but finally they get some reward in the form of a stage win for Alexandre Vache. Daniele Rampazza racks up a 2nd consecutive 2nd place and Jackson Bannister finally finds himself on the score sheet.
You may be forgiven for thinking a sprinter tops the points classification but infact the top rider in both stage points and mountain points is Naseef Aqeem, the LSR rider features in pretty much every break and seems to have the energy to rush past the checkpoints in first place.

Wizzie wrote:How are my clowns at Lansvale going?

35. Nasser Aqeem +5:53 (leads mountain and points tables through break aways)
59.Jean Velo +9:31 (Water Carrier)
61. Jean Marie van Fiets (Team mate)
74. Michael Chow +10:34 (Lead Sprinter, 0 points)
78. David Lee +10:34 (Water Carrier, for some reason your team seems to want 2)
85. Peiter Briggs +10:34 (Team mate)
100.Roberto Di Magenta +17:21 (Assitant Sprinter, has points!)

None of the Lansvale Riders are going to challenge for overall victory, really all you can do is hope for good results from the sprinters and hope Aqeem keeps his form. Aqeem is really one of the star riders of the tour, he fights in every break and despite putting himself at great risk has a near 4 minute lead on all his teammates.

FMecha wrote:Positions for our teams, please?

Team Firehawk

7.Shuichi Iketani +2:26 (Team Leader, lead sprinter too, scored points)
20.Hussain Inam +2:57 (Team Leader, yes another one)
54. Anand Singh +9:31 (Team leader, yes Firehawk seem to have three!)
63.Mauricio Sassetti +9:31 (Team Mate)
81. Yudi Suchayo +10:34 (Sprinter, 0 points)
96. Jason Edison +16:13 (Water carrier, has been in breaks too)
109.Nigel Roberts +18:47 (Team mate, has been in breaks)

I don't know why nearly half the team are considered leaders, but Iketani and Inam are good prospects and a good couple of results in the last stages could end up giving some good points to IKetani, who's sprint skill could earn him some vital bonus time.

The Lukas wrote:Where are all the Tiger riders on the standings?

5.Janne Nordman +52 (Teammate)
60.Nikolay Borsukov +9:31 (Team mate)
68.Siergiej Grishin +10:27 (Teammate, fighting Aqeem for poins/mountain)
79.Takeru Watanabe +10:34 (Water Carrier)
82.Aleksandr Stefanovic +10:34 (Leader, supposedly!)
92.Rafal Piotrowski +13:57 (Teammate, Has been in good breaks)
DNF. Andrei Garasimchuk (Withdrew on the last stage)

If there is a break away, you can bet Tiger Cycling are involved, Nordman, Grishin and Piotrowski have all featured in big break aways. Though as a result they are not in good shape for sprints and the team is barely seen at the front of the peloton as they would rather hang at the back and NOT catch breakaways. Nordman has real chance of winning though it seems the team are backing stefanovic for reasons unknown.

How's Twinings doing? I've seen Westy and Davies on the leaderboard a couple times, but nobody really seems to be doing anything.

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:How's Twinings doing? I've seen Westy and Davies on the leaderboard a couple times, but nobody really seems to be doing anything.

That is mostly because they are not, Twining don't see all that interest in leading the field or breaking away.

11.Craig West +2:26 (Team Leader)
32.Jacob Denver +4:15 (Team Mate)
41.Louis Gallard +6:02 (Team Mate)
48.Jose Vasquez +7:11 (Support Sprinter)
50.Ivan Shermetev +7:11 (Team Mate)
57.Freddie Donnelly +9:31 (Water carrier)
71.James Davies +10:34 (Lead Sprinter, has come close.)

Overall the team are not in bad shape with Craig West a real top 10 prospect, James Davies has been unlucky not to score points. Mediocre is probably the word that best sums up the team, maybe they have kept enough energy for the next hill stage.

How are the Performance and Cocktails riders fairing?

East Londoner wrote:How are the Performance and Cocktails riders fairing?

14.Jaime Carling +2:26 (Team Mate)
25.Brandon Plant +3:34 (Team Mate)
34.Wilson Ricky +5:32 (Sprinter, one stage win, two points finishes!)
53.Stefan Lomassonn +9:27 (Support Sprinter, got a 3rd place though!)
56.Norman Sumner +9:31 (Water Carrier)
55.Carlo Adjej +9:31 (Support Sprinter)
62.Darren Matthews +9:31 (Water Carrier)

None of your riders have been designated "leaders" but it is clear Jaime Carling and Wilson Ricky are the big names of the team. Norman Sumner and Darren Matthews are frequently seen at the front of the field leading the peloton, Adjej and Lomasson are seen carrying Ricky and Plant carries Carling. A fairly neat set up though trying to protect Ricky's overall lead on stage 2 went horribly wrong for the team.

Is Romano leading the points jersey now, and how are Castiglione and Firenze doing in the overall?

kostas22 wrote:Is Romano leading the points jersey now, and how are Castiglione and Firenze doing in the overall?

Romano is not leading the points jersey because, frankly, the points system in the down under tour is hideously slanted to award mid race breakaways rather than overall stage victors. As of stage 4 Castiglione is still in 2nd place and Firenze is in the top 20.

Sorry I can not be more specific right now, stage 5 has already been complete, keep an eye on this space.

Twinings Earl Grey had full control of stage 5 of 6 of the tour down under, they committed all their riders to lead the peloton and even sent Jacob Denver out to slow down the mid race break away. Of course this controlling of breakaways came as a late Christmas present to Cycling Circus as this allowed Nasser Abdulrashid to merge into the twinings train, something Minardi, Battery and Alitalia also had no problem in doing. Towards the final climb a number of strong riders broke forward, Tromsen, Ndiekele and Carling made it a few metres ahead before being emerged and a spirited Jerry Fletcher even managed a minutes gap with only 3km left but Craig West had in in his pocket to claim victory. Daniel sims took a spirited 2nd place, very nearly spoiling Craig West's day, whilst Xavier De Vos becomes the 3rd Alitalia rider to grace the stage podium inching team mate Castiligone. Johan Kelstrom become Battery's first points scorer this season.



The final stage is a simple flat loop around Adelaide so it is unlikely positions will change much at the front, Cycling Circus will be giving thier all not to allow any dangerous breaks to occur nor will they allow any harm to occur to Abdulrashid.
Because of the low field spread the top 4 remain unchanged as Arnold Abil and Slobodan Tomic just about managed to hang on to the tail of the lead group. Though a poor result from Janne Nordman has near enough ruined his chances for points. The bonus time rewards for Craig West and Daniel Sims should be treasured as it should allow them to secure 5th and 6th place, however a nervous wait befalls Iketani through to Firenze, as they all sit on equal times, it will come to the final stage to resolve them and only the top 10 riders overall will get series points.



Alitalia once again win the stage, having recorded victory on 3/5 of the stages so far they look set to win the teams section. Battery Energy also had a good run but could not overhaul Minardi in the standings as Team CIP slip to 4th.


As for the points standings, with Daniele Rampazza on a hot streak of sprint finishes he may go down as the favourite, but if Nasser Aqeem decides to go on a glory break again than he is also in with a shout of winning. There is theoretically 20 points still available across three check points (including the finish) so it is all to play for.

kostas22 wrote:Is Romano leading the points jersey now, and how are Castiglione and Firenze doing in the overall?

You should be able to see how those 3 are doing from my latest post but if you want more info on your team:

Xavier de Vos- Is actually labeled as the team leader for the tour, unfortunatly he spectacularly missed the boat on the first hill stage by avoiding the front two breaks.
Artam Karimi - is a teammate that carries riders for the first 2/3rds of the stage, part of the reason your riders seem to have so much energy at the end
Piermario Saltamacchia - is the rider who sits at the back of the peloton only coming forward to hand out water bottles. Nothing else of note.
Vincenzo Mazzola - is obviously the support sprinter for Romano, with mixed results.

Shadaza wrote:Artam Karimi - is a teammate that carries riders for the first 2/3rds of the stage, part of the reason your riders seem to have so much energy at the end
Vincenzo Mazzola - is obviously the support sprinter for Romano, with mixed results.

These are exactly the roles I had intended these riders to have. Karimi was to keep a good pace for the other riders on the flat, so they could burst with engery in the last section of the stage and gai ntime, and Mazzola was supposed to keep Romano in the hunt for the sprint jersey. Shame he hasn't done his job more effectively.

After the race is finished, please put complete results up. I have played some earlier PCMs and at least there was chance to export them to a file, so not necessarily need for screenshotting them all.

Stefan Lomassonn wins the stage, Nasser Abdulrashid wins the Tour!



Stefan Lomassonn edged out teammate Wilson Ricky for a rare 1-2 finish on the final stage of the tour which, predictably, ended as a mass sprint finish.
Robert0 di Magenta ends up with his 2nd podium finish of the tour in 3rd ahead of Flugschreiber and consistent points scorer Mitchell Webb. Credit Bancarotta end up with 4 of their sprinters in the top 12 as they seem to finally have got the hang of working as a team, though only Flugschreiber scores series points today.



As you can see no time changes in the top riders; Iketani, Vasquez de Silva, Tromsen and Ranozzi will be the riders scoring series points, which is harsh on Ndiekele, Carling and co.


The points jersey was tied between Rampazza and Aqeem, ironically neither of them scored anything on the last round as both of them were too exhausted to be competing in breaks or sprints.


The mountain jersey, or as it should be renamed "breakaway cup" was won by Randall Clarks who clearly set out to win this jersey today, along with the other 2 breakaway riders of the day Jason Edison and Ed Kevin. Clarks barely paid attention to the sprint checkpoints but gave his all to win the mountain ones, earning NSA a trophy.


Claudio Castiglione may not have won the tour, but he can take solace in being awarded the young rider jersey ahead of Daniel Sims and Schuichi Iketani.

As the stage ended in a mass sprint of nearly every rider, the teams competition remained unchanged, so Alitalia Parmalat Bianchi win the tour, from Minardi and Battery Energy.


The full results of the Tour can be found here:
http://www.2shared.com/document/O5PuRiFk/Down_Unders_Tour_Adelaide_-_Ad.html

If you are unable or do not wish to load the spreadsheet data, feel free to ask me where your riders came in the tour.

One final thing for this tour, Battery Energies Jan Ahlberg pulled to a halt half way round the stage. This was the reason:

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Dafuq, a broken neck and it says "fit to race"? Something must've been lost in translation...

Nice to see Edderly take some time to get close to the pack in the rounds...

Down Under's Tour summary:

Stage Winners:

Stage 1: Wilson Ricky
Stage 2: Nasser Abdulrashid
Stage 3: Lorenzo Romano
Stage 4: Alexandre Vache
Stage 5: Craig West
Stage 6: Stefan Lomassonn

Points per stage: 6 for win, 4 for second, 2 for third, 1 for fourth and fifth.
Points for General Classification: 1st:100, 2nd:80 , 3rd:70, 4th:60, 5th:50, 6th:40, 7th:30, 8th:20 9th:10, 10th:4

Championship Standings after 1 Event:




The next round is the Paris to Nice.
This will be an event open to 8 riders per team and consists of 8 stages:
4 designated flat, 2 hills and short time trials. The latter of the time trials is a 10km mountain climb.

The stages are on the whole longer than the Down Under Tour with most around 175km-200km, though the Sistern-Nice hill climb is a lengthy 220km.
The Time Trials are both a couple hundred metres short of 10km.

Shadaza wrote:How do I present this Information in a neat table?

Use a notepad file to write the results and use the spacebar to align all the info. Once you've finished editing, copy and paste it into the [code] brackets. It will look unaligned on the standard text editor because the forum doesn't have fixed character width. If it looks aligned when in post edit/creation mode, it's wrong.

Just realised I didn't give you the ages of my new riders Shadaza, so here they are!

AndreaModa wrote:Daryl Foley (GBR) Flat, Prologue, Cobbles Age: 27
Francois Le Bleu (FRA) Hills, Endurance, Resistance Age: 26
Sochiro Hamasaki (JPN) Flat, Endurance, Acceleration Age: 29
Tadi Nokaro (JPN) Mountain, Hills, Resistance Age: 30
Daniel Morales (ESP) Hills, Time Trial, Resistance Age: 26
Harry Pritchard (GBR) Resistance, Cobbles, Sprint Age: 27
Esteban Fuentes (ESP) Mountain, Resistance, Recovery Age: 31
Oleg Brutschev (RUS) Flat, Hills, Fighting Spirit Age: 28
Paddy Quinn (IRE) Flat, Endurance, Sprint Age: 28

Hitachi's lineup for the Paris-Nice will be as follows:

Katsuko Hondo
Yuki Shizzuno
Franceso Rossi
Jerry Fletcher
Sochiro Hamasaki
Paddy Quinn
Oleg Brutschev
Daniel Morales

May I have the standings of my riders for the tour?

JeremyMcClean wrote:May I have the standings of my riders for the tour?

29 Alexey Volkov + 6'49
38 Randall Clarks + 17'46
60 Laurens Buivart +21'22
73 John Vonn +22'25
77 Janice Edwards +22'25
84 Kevin Frederickson + 25'53
87 Jacques LaRossa +26'37



Other than Randall Clarks I did not see NSA do all that much, though if things had panned out better Alexey Volkov might have managed to bring home a solid result. I wish I could say more!

Minardi's riders for the Paris-Nice:

Daniele Rampazza
Alex Awang
Danilo Ceccon
Róbert Cziczkás
William Goodspeed
Shane Reid
Philipe Viruolien
Harry White

Alitalia's lineup for Paris-Nice;

Timothee Voeckler
Stefano Firenze
Claudio Castiglione
Przemyslaw Kolodziejczak
Maarten Hooiveld
Raphael Le Clercq
Artan Karimi
Fermintxo Intxausti

Also, I have a question regarding the realism of PCM; do riders accumulate fatigue if they participate in too many events in quick succession, making their performance decline? Or can we just use riders as often as we want and it makes no difference to their performance at all?

Second question...well, more of a request - the UCI World Tour also has a teams championship; in real-life this is used to decide whether a team can retain its ProTour license at the end of the season, but with no ProContinental series on F1Rejects this isn't an issue. Can we still have it anyway? Mainly because I expect my team to be strong in this area

Lansvale will enter the following team for the Paris-Nice event:

Naseef Aqeem
Michael Chow
Roberto Di Magenta
Jean Velo
David Lee
Tamak Bisiklet
Jizdni Kolo
Kang Xian Bin

Before I forget, just who exactly is still on the unattached riders list?

I join in on the eternal question reign and ask whether my FIGHTING SPIRITU~! rider Mizuhara is still going?

Twinings' Paris-Nice team will consist of:

Sven Johansson
Craig West
James Davies
Jean Gauthier
Freddie Donnelly
Jacob Denver
Shinji Miyamoto
Jose Vasquez

Foster's Line Up will be

Thomas Yorke
Boo Radley-Biggins
Daniel Sims
Mitchell Webb
Nicola Casella
Antonio Arena
Matsohiro Mizuhara
Dave Hedgehog

kostas22 wrote:
Also, I have a question regarding the realism of PCM; do riders accumulate fatigue if they participate in too many events in quick succession, making their performance decline? Or can we just use riders as often as we want and it makes no difference to their performance at all?

Second question...well, more of a request - the UCI World Tour also has a teams championship; in real-life this is used to decide whether a team can retain its ProTour license at the end of the season, but with no ProContinental series on F1Rejects this isn't an issue. Can we still have it anyway? Mainly because I expect my team to be strong in this area

In the career mode fatigue is a issue, unfortunatly I can't do that as I won't be able to control what teams enter each event let alone which riders. So the short answer is it won't make any difference, however as part of the start of each tour, rider form is randomised. This is most evident in sprinters. Though the random effect plays a very much background role compared to rider stats and team blend.

I am running a team championship, (top 5 riders of a team have their points added together) I just did not post the results. Currently:

1.Cycling Circus 106
2.Alitalia 94
3.United Boxtel 74
4.Team CIP 62
5.Twinings Earl Gray 56
6.Fosters Good Cycle 48
7.Team Firehawk 31
8.Minardi 23
9.Battery Energy Drink 21
10.Performance and Cocktail Racing 19
11.Credit Bancarotta 7
12.Lansvale Smash Repairs 6
13.Tiger Cycling Team 1
=14.Equipe Fantomette 0
=14.Hitachi Pro Tour 0
=14.NSA Team 0

Wizzie wrote:Before I forget, just who exactly is still on the unattached riders list?

There are currently no unattached riders, Fosters swept up the last of them. Tough luck.

Klon wrote:I join in on the eternal question reign and ask whether my FIGHTING SPIRITU~! rider Mizuhara is still going?

Mizuhara has lasted longer than the team he was originally with, when Freaky Styley went under, Fosters signed all (but 1) of their riders. Mizuhara did not enter the tour down under but he will be in the Paris-Nice.

Performance and Cocktails will be entering the following riders.

Stefan Lomassonn
Kenta Nakimaka
Daniel Martins
Brandon Plant
Wilson RIcky
Hugh Englemann
Nelson Burbridge
Sid Hatayuki

Equipe Fantomette will bring to Paris-Nice the following eight

1-Alexandre Charpantier
2-François Ndiekele
3-Jonson Edderly
4-Rui Miranda
5-Siggi Judsen
6-Demétrio Molina
7-Piercarlo Balder
8-Arthur Vergamet

Shadaza wrote:

JeremyMcClean wrote:May I have the standings of my riders for the tour?

29 Alexey Volkov + 6'49
38 Randall Clarks + 17'46
60 Laurens Buivart +21'22
73 John Vonn +22'25
77 Janice Edwards +22'25
84 Kevin Frederickson + 25'53
87 Jacques LaRossa +26'37

Other than Randall Clarks I did not see NSA do all that much, though if things had panned out better Alexey Volkov might have managed to bring home a solid result. I wish I could say more!

Thank you. And for Paris-Nice (why would they need another major cycling tournament, they already have the Tour de bloody France), use the cyclists I had before and adding Wesley Duncan. (I'm going to need all the help I can get, Salamander.)

14/16 teams have entered their teams for the 2nd tour of the season:

Hitachi

Katsuko Hondo
Yuki Shizzuno
Franceso Rossi
Jerry Fletcher
Sochiro Hamasaki
Paddy Quinn
Oleg Brutschev
Daniel Morales


Minardi

Daniele Rampazza
Alex Awang
Danilo Ceccon
Róbert Cziczkás
William Goodspeed
Shane Reid
Philipe Viruolien
Harry White


Alitalia

Timothee Voeckler
Stefano Firenze
Claudio Castiglione
Przemyslaw Kolodziejczak
Maarten Hooiveld
Raphael Le Clercq
Artan Karimi
Fermintxo Intxausti


Lansvale

Naseef Aqeem
Michael Chow
Roberto Di Magenta
Jean Velo
David Lee
Tamak Bisiklet
Jizdni Kolo
Kang Xian Bin



Twinings

Sven Johansson
Craig West
James Davies
Jean Gauthier
Freddie Donnelly
Jacob Denver
Shinji Miyamoto
Jose Vasquez


Fosters

Thomas Yorke
Boo Radley-Biggins
Daniel Sims
Mitchell Webb
Nicola Casella
Antonio Arena
Matsohiro Mizuhara
Dave Hedgehog


PCR

Stefan Lomassonn
Kenta Nakimaka
Daniel Martins
Brandon Plant
Wilson RIcky
Hugh Englemann
Nelson Burbridge
Sid Hatayuki


Equipe Fantomette

1-Alexandre Charpantier
2-François Ndiekele
3-Jonson Edderly
4-Rui Miranda
5-Siggi Judsen
6-Demétrio Molina
7-Piercarlo Balder
8-Arthur Vergamet


NSA

Alexey Volkov
Randall Clarks
Laurens Buivart
John Vonn
Janice Edwards
Kevin Frederickson
Jason Melbourne
Wesley Duncan


Tiger Cycling Team

Siergiej Grishin
Yusuke Tanaka
Janne Nordman
Pavel Gafurov
Yevegni Dus
Rafal Piotrowski
Maxim Drozdov
Martin Stensky


UBC

Preston Senersen
Karl van de Graaf
Frank Mortarhouse
Istvan Feher
Leandro Carabon
Jackson Bannister
Arnold Abil


Team Cip

Abruzzo
Corday
Eriksson
Michalek
Tomic
Mota
Gutierrez
Perez


Bancarotto

1. Verwest
2. Vache
3. Accelerara
4. Brice
5. Flugshreiber
6. de Moor
7. Whitcombe
8. Starecase


Team Firehawk

Singh
Edison
Suchayo
Roberts
Iketani
Jung-un
Mechavic
Tenpenny

Tiger Cycling Team will be entering the following riders.
Siergiej Grishin
Yusuke Tanaka
Janne Nordman
Pavel Gafurov
Yevegni Dus
Rafal Piotrowski
Maxim Drozdov
Martin Stensky

I would like all teams that have yet to confirm their teams for the Paris-Nice to do so as soon as possible please.

This 8 stage run (1 short flat time trial, 4 flat, 2 hill, 1 mountain time trial) offer many opportunities for winners and the event winner will not be clear until after the final stage is done. Anything could happen.

Please add this guy to the NSA Roster

Name: Jason Melbourne
Age: 22
Nationality: American
Primary Skills: Mountain, Hills, Fighting Spirit

Here is UBC's lineup for Paris-Nice

Preston Senersen
Karl van de Graaf
Frank Mortarhouse
Istvan Feher
Leandro Carabon
Jackson Bannister
Arnold Abil
Quinton Voss

EDIT: Added Voss.

JeremyMcClean wrote:Please add this guy to the NSA Roster

Name: Jason Melbourne
Age: 22
Nationality: American
Primary Skills: Mountain, Hills, Fighting Spirit

Done!

Just Battery, Team CIP, Credit Bancarotto and Firehawk to confirm their teams. Well Circus too, but I can take for granted who they want to enter.

Team CIP for Paris-Nice
Abruzzo
Corday
Eriksson
Michalek
Tomic
Mota
Gutierrez

Bleu wrote:Team CIP for Paris-Nice
Abruzzo
Corday
Eriksson
Michalek
Tomic
Mota
Gutierrez

you are allowed 8 riders for Paris-Nice, so feel free to enter another.