Grand Prix Rejects

My crappy team will return

eurobrun wrote:My crappy team will return

Welcome back, I am surprised your team hasn't had more success so far this season, come the major stage races I think Battery will be right up there.

Team CIP for L-B-L
Dong Yan
Marcos Perez
Börje Eriksson
Slobodan Tomic
Sancho Gutierrez
Donald McRae
Giovanni Abruzzo
Jesper Sand

Équipe Fantomette for L-B-L
Alexandre Charpantier
Demetrio Molina
Ingo Voeller
Jonson Edderly
Norbert Centrone
Arthur Vergamet
François Ndiekele
Hiroshi Kekami

Glad to see, this one is back on track... or road.

Minardi's squad for the next race:

Davide Cozzo
Paolo Lesallo
Gert van Lijwouk
Daniele Rampazza
Gianluigi Ricchi
Thor Tromsen
Philipe Viruolien
Harry White

Twinings' team will be:
Craig West
Sven Johansson
Ivan Shermetev
Alex Harris
Jacob Denver
Jean Gauthier

We will also be running two new signings, if that's okay.
Carl Kerr (GBR, 30 years, Mountain, Hills, Endurance)
Storm Danielsen (DEN, 26 years, Hills, Downhill, Recovery)

Hitachi's team:

Jerry Fletcher
Yuki Shizzuno
Claudio Bonotellio
Francois Le Bleu
Sochiro Hamasaki
Tadi Nokaro
Daniel Morales
Oleg Brutschev

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:Twinings' team will be:
Craig West
Sven Johansson
Ivan Shermetev
Alex Harris
Jacob Denver
Jean Gauthier

We will also be running two new signings, if that's okay.
Carl Kerr (GBR, 30 years, Mountain, Hills, Endurance)
Storm Danielsen (DEN, 26 years, Hills, Downhill, Recovery)

I will allow the signing because a) I have not said no before and b) Twinings is a smaller team than some of the others (11 riders vs some teams of 20+).
However I would in general prefer no new riders or new riders in place of old ones. From the next season (ok that may be awhile away!) I will limit mid season signings and new rider creation.

Having large numbers of riders isn't a major advantage anyway, only the top 5 overall scoring riders count for a team's score.
Currently Hitachi (3), Fosters (3), Alitalia (4), CIP (1), Minardi (4) and Performance & Cocktails (3) have riders on the scoreboard whose points don't contribute to the teams total.

Welcome back Minardi!

Well, with Minardi back, one of my two main free agent targets is now out of the window. Let's see what happens with the other one.

In the meantime, I am adding one new rider to the roster. I need more domestiques so I'll have to create a new one rather than rely on cannibalising any soon-to-be defunct teams, as it looks like there may not be any of those.

Vincenzo Jacomuzzi [ITA] (26yo)
Hills, Endurance, Fighting Spirit

I'll go ahead and announce the Alitalia lineup for Liège-Bastogne-Liège now;

Stefano Firenze
Claudio Castiglione
Xavier de Vos
Przemyslaw Kolodziejczak
Raphael Le Clercq
Heidar Helguson
Vincenzo Jacomuzzi
Artan Karimi

Added the new Alitalia rider.

I think maybe I should run the next two events (one classic and one tour) keeping any inactive team on standby. I know that many users are currently doing exams and all team owners have been on F1 rejects forums at some point this month at least, so it would be a bit hasty to end their teams.

But if by the time the Giro comes around and I have not heard anything I will make their riders available.

I will therefore make the deadline for the L-B-L Sunday 26th May 15:00 (3PM)

Current Entry list:

1.Team Cip
Dong Yan
Marcos Perez
Börje Eriksson
Slobodan Tomic
Sancho Gutierrez
Donald McRae
Giovanni Abruzzo
Jesper Sand

2.Fantomette
Alexandre Charpantier
Demetrio Molina
Ingo Voeller
Jonson Edderly
Norbert Centrone
Arthur Vergamet
François Ndiekele
Hiroshi Kekami

3.Minardi
Davide Cozzo
Paolo Lesallo
Gert van Lijwouk
Daniele Rampazza
Gianluigi Ricchi
Thor Tromsen
Philipe Viruolien
Harry White

4.Twinings Earl Grey
Craig West
Sven Johansson
Ivan Shermetev
Alex Harris
Jacob Denver
Jean Gauthier
Carl Kerr
Storm Danielsen

5.Hitachi
Jerry Fletcher
Yuki Shizzuno
Claudio Bonotellio
Francois Le Bleu
Sochiro Hamasaki
Tadi Nokaro
Daniel Morales
Oleg Brutschev

6.Alitalia
Stefano Firenze
Claudio Castiglione
Xavier de Vos
Przemyslaw Kolodziejczak
Raphael Le Clercq
Heidar Helguson
Vincenzo Jacomuzzi
Artan Karimi

7. Restov Racing
Andrei Dzagoev
Hans Drecker
Sergei Baloshikinov
Diniyar Akinfeev
Torsten Fritz
Jakub Radiszki
David Odonkor
Jose Aramento Garcia

8.Mabbazana
Their 5 Riders!

9.Community Cycling Initiative
Singh
Edison
Suchayo
Roberts
Iketani
Vance
Tenpenny
Sassetti

10.Performance and Cocktails
Bernard Jones
Jaime Carling
John Jaywick
Brandon Plant
Ricardo Lupo
Dougal Dalkeith
Sid Hatayuki
Darren Matthews

11.Lansvale Smash Repairs
Giovani Bicicletta
Tamak Bisiklet
Jean-Marie van Fiets
Jean Velo
Kang Xian Bin
Peiter Briggs
Nicolas Pederson
Tomas Knutsen

12.NSA Team
John Vonn
Kevin Frederickson
Alexey Volkov
Janice Edwards
Jason Melbourne
Colin Thompson
James Collins
David Clarkson

13.Fosters
Klaus Fahrrad
Daniel Sims
Jaap van Riebeck
Terry Wright
Ed Kevin
Boo Radley-Biggins
Andy Badger
Thomas Yorke

Foster's Good Cycle will return, we was doing rather well before!

Where does this fit in with the canon?

Restov for L-B-L

1. Andrei Dzagoev
2. Hans Drecker
3. Sergei Baloshikinov
4. Diniyar Akinfeev
5. Torsten Fritz
6. Jakub Radiszki
7. David Odonkor
8. Jose Aramento Garcia

Am I able to use all my riders

andrew wrote:Am I able to use all my riders

Yes of course, I will add you to the entry list.

Shadaza wrote:

andrew wrote:Am I able to use all my riders

Yes of course, I will add you to the entry list.

silly question, who are my riders?

pasta_maldonado wrote:Foster's Good Cycle will return, we was doing rather well before!

Where does this fit in with the canon?

We will be using all our riders from before

andrew wrote:

Shadaza wrote:

andrew wrote:Am I able to use all my riders

Yes of course, I will add you to the entry list.

silly question, who are my riders?

On the first page of this thread, the second post I have a list of all the teams and their current riders

CCI will run with:

Singh
Edison
Suchayo
Roberts
Iketani
Vance
Tenpenny
Sassetti

A reminder to Lansvale, NSA, Fosters, PCR and Battery to pick your 8 riders for the Liege - Bastogne- Liege.

The deadline is today, though I may be forced to extend it.

My apologies

The PCR team for this run:
Bernard Jones
Jaime Carling
John Jaywick
Brandon Plant
Ricardo Lupo
Dougal Dalkeith
Sid Hatayuki
Darren Matthews

Lansvale will enter the following riders for the Liege-Bastogne-Liege event:

Giovani Bicicletta
Tamak Bisiklet
Jean-Marie van Fiets
Jean Velo
Kang Xian Bin
Peiter Briggs
Nicolas Pederson
Tomas Knutsen

Last call for entry, I will be running the stage TODAY after the Indianapolis 500, PLEASE enter.

The NSA Team will enter these riders:
John Vonn
Kevin Frederickson
Alexey Volkov
Janice Edwards
Jason Melbourne
Colin Thompson
James Collins
David Clarkson

Also, if any team wants Juan Pablo Martinez (Time Trial, Flat, Endurance) they can gladly do so.

Here's Foster's Good Cycle's roster:

Klaus Fahrrad
Daniel Sims
Jaap van Riebeck
Terry Wright
Ed Kevin
Boo Radley-Biggins
Andy Badger
Thomas Yorke

pasta_maldonado wrote:Here's Foster's Good Cycle's roster:

Klaus Fahrrad
Daniel Sims
Jaap van Riebeck
Terry Wright
Ed Kevin
Boo Radley-Biggins
Andy Badger
Thomas Yorke

Ah, you still have Mr. Radley-Biggins. Another Ataxia double-pun there.

hmm 1st run through of the stage led to the game crashing.

Will attempt a 2nd run. With possible live commentary at F1 rejects chat!

Liege - Bastogne - Liege.

The opening 100km of the stage was mostly a slow paced tactical affair with no team wishing to lead the field, 3 riders took the opportunity to break right off the bat.

Claudi Gusto (Mabbazana), Darren Matthews (PCR) and Jean Velo (Lansvale) made a spirited charge. None of them are climbers and the chance of winning the stage looks pretty remote, but it may force the other teams in to working hard to catch them.


Alitalia, Fosters and Fantomette lead the chasing pack and caught the breakaway with around 50km of the stage remaining. At this point the pace of the field coupled with the late hills meant more and more riders were falling away from the back of the pack. By this point only half the field remained at the front with more and more falling behind with every KM.

Towards the final 20km's and some strong riders decided to break away. First Alexy Volkov of NSA Team made a spirited break and lead by 30 seconds from the 20km mark, but his effort was perhaps to early and he was soon caught. Pre-race favourite Klaus Fahrrad broke forward with just over 10km remaining and pulled out a 40 second lead. The remaining peloton could not keep up with him and the pace fractured as 5 riders broke forward to catch Fahrrad. Centrone (Fantomette), Le Bleu (Hitachi), Jacomuzzi (APB), Hatayuki (PCR) and Craig West (TWI) all rushed forward in what looks like a grandstand finish.

Klaus Fahrrad bravely hung on in to the final KM with a marginal lead however....

Sid Hatayuki managed to blast past and take the stage victory for Performance and Cocktails Racing!


Klaus Fahrrad just managed to hold on to 2nd place form Le Bleu as West, Centrone and Jacomuzzi cross the line together.
Ndikele makes it two Fantomette riders in the top 10, the first time they have managed that in any stage this season, with Badger, Firenze and Lupo rounding up the points and confirming a strong run from those teams.


PCR and Alitalia tied the stage on time with the victory going to PCR by virtue of Hatayuki's win. With some strong performances from Foster's, Hitachi and Twinings.
Team CIP and Minardi screwed up their strategy by hanging back to much coming in to the 2nd half, when the field started to break apart they had to work extra hard to catch up and had no real shot at the front. NSA and new boys Restov had some riders in the mix, but NSA's gamble with Volkov did not pay off and Restov had the same problem as Minardi and CIP by having their two good climbers on the wrong side of some breakaways.

Other than a spirited late effort from Lansvale's Jean Velo, there was little to celebrate at CCI, Mabbazana or LSR, the climbs proving a little too much today.

http://www.2shared.com/document/5LUlsSYd/Lige_-_Bastogne_-_Lige_Lige_-_.html
Full results here, but if you don't want to download that feel free to ask me how your riders did.

The next event is the Grand Prix de Romandie.

A 6 stage tour in Switzerland compromising of:
a 3.7km Prologue. 3 Medium length Hill stages, 1 mountain stage and a 16km hill climb time trial.



Once again teams may enter 8 riders.
This event is about the transition between the hillclimb season to the heavy duty mountain stages, this event is also the warm up for the GIro!

all riders please

Alitalia squad for Tour de Romandie;

Timothee Voeckler
Stefano Firenze
Alessio Monteverdi
Claudio Castiglione
Emanuele Montella
Vincenzo Jacomuzzi
Fermintxo Intxausti
Heidar Helguson

Foster's Good Cycle lineup for the GP de Romanduie

Klaus Fahrrad
Ed Kevin
Craig Beic
Mitchell Webb
Daniel Sims
Terry Wright
Andy Badger
Ragnar Solmundsson

Hitachi:

Hirohito Kamizaki
Jorge Luis Hernandez
Jerry Fletcher
Yuki Shizzuno
Francois Le Bleu
Tadi Nokaro
Daniel Morales
Esteban Fuentes

Right, NSA will enter
Jacques LaRossa
Laurens Buivart
Wesley Duncan
Alexey Volkov
Juan Pablo Martinez
Jason Melbourne
John Vonn
Janice Edwards

Twinings team will consist of:
Craig West
Sven Johansson
Alex Harris
Jean Gauthier
Carl Kerr
Storm Danielsen
Jacob Denver
Ivan Shermetev

Equipe Fantomete will bring

François Ndiekele
Alexandre Charpantier
Nobert Centrone
Jonson Edderly
Üyük Çeynan
Alexandre Cadinho
Hiroshi Kekami
Siggi Judsen

Darn, I missed the last race. Can UBC come back with the following riders for the Grand prix de Romandie?

Preston Senerson
Jackson Bannister
Chilserx Dawson
Quinton Voss
Istvan Feher
Arnold Abil
Leandro Davidson
Giacomo Canfora

CCI will enter with:

Singh
Edison
Sucahyo
Roberts
Iketani
Vance
Jung-Un
Murphy

Also, the Excel file seems to throw an error message if you try to open it, but it works fine.

Minardi's squad

Raul Julandro Jimenez
Paolo Lesallo
Rinaldo Ranozzi
Shane Reid
Artem Tereshin
Vincenzo Tolano
Harry White
Takuma Yumoto

Restov's squad

1. Andrei Dzagoev
2. Hans Drecker
3. Sergei Baloshikinov
4. Diniyar Akinfeev
5. Torsten Fritz
6. Jakub Radiszki
7. David Odonkor
8. Jose Aramento Garcia

Franco Rimolta
Barry Firestone
Stefan Muller
Jan Ahlberg
Ryan Nelson
Simon Hill
Pavel Ranchek

Jeroen Braams (Hills, Mountains, Fighting Spirit)