The Tour is over, CARRERA with another stage win, the prestigious sprint at the Champs Elysees. Rest is history, and if there is history, there are also statistics about it. Thus, we come to the facts first and then Team FL will present a short analysis of the team's performance, that is of course open for discussion.
General classement:
01. 00:00:00 Ricardo Quaresma (Alkworld)
02. 00:03:35 Joe Hill (SV Furpach)
03. 00:05:15 Jakub Lewandowski (Team ABC-Polsat)
04. 00:05:30 Illya Kljujew (RV Zahna)
05. 00:06:12 Oram James (TUTTIFRUTTI)
06. 00:06:51 Ondrej Kapovnik (SM Team)
07. 00:10:07 Monte Christo (Ille Racing)
08. 00:10:27 Leonardo DiCaprios (la fr des Jeux)
09. 00:11:19 Franck Souris (Secret Team)
10. 00:11:36 Mads Schidt (Aixteam)
Sprint classement:
- Benito Salas (Alkworld)
Mountain classement:
- Lukasz Blaszczykowski (Team ABC-Polsat)
Youth classement:
- Ondrej Kapovnik (SM Team)
Team classement:
- SV Furpach
Stage wins by teams:
7 - Alkworld
3 - CARRERA-ITALIA
3 - Die Playboys
3 - Team FL
2 - Team ABC-Polsat
2 - RV Zahna
1 - SV Furpach
1 - TUTTIFRUTTI
Stage wins by riders:
4 - Ricardo Quaresma (Alkworld)
3 - Nils Ove Grundtvik (Die Playboys)
3 - Benito Salas (Alkworld)
3 - Gaudenz Taverna (Team FL)
2 - Nikita Saidov (RV Zahna)
1 - Tom Banks (SV Furpach)
1 - Marco Bosio (CARRERA-ITALIA)
1 - Francesco Costa (CARRERA-ITALIA)
1 - Jakub Lewandowski (Team ABC-Polsat)
1 - Ludovik Obraniak (Team ABC-Polsat)
1 - Daniele DiRoma (CARRERA-ITALIA)
1 - Paolino Superchi (TUTTIFRUTTI)
Team performance (sorted by alphabet, 1 very bad, 2 bad, 3 average, 4 good, 5 very good):
- Aixteam: 2: Could have won the Tour with Shidt, but mostly off, explained this. Therefore not really a performance at all. Because he fairly explained it and acted not weird when on, he gets a 2.
- Alkworld: 4.5: Most stage wins, GC, green jersey. There just was not more possible. Anyway, it's not a 5 because of two (subjective) things: first, in the situation with Joe Hill and Quaresma on stage 16, he was too greedy and second, bad sitter choice. Although he did everything right technically, he's chat behavious was annoying and sometimes even arrogant. It was not Alkworld, but he is responsible for his sitter's behviour. But still: Best performance I have seen of all Tour times.
- Audi Sport: 1: Offliner, Huberteam (two hubers!). Just dead weight on the road and in the GC.
- CARRERA-ITALIA: 4: 58 races by now, does not know english very well, BUT: very communicative (used google translator) and friendly, very active in the races, esp. with Bosio and won three stages with his team. One with his cilmber, one with Bosio in the escape, one with his 87 sprinter (Champs-Elysees). He seems to have the right spirit, although he acts a bit too overambitious sometimes. Also very good work in the Gruppetto. Anyway, I am a fan.
- Die Playboys: 3.5: What to say: He had the best sprinter and won three stages with him. Still no chance for green against Salas. After some interesting moves that caught the attention not only of Team FL, he lost 3 riders against the time but then acted very good with them. Always very active but sometimes like CARRERA a bit too overambitious and impatient. Still an over average performance due to the stage wins, but sometimes not very sovereign. Still has to learn a lot, but definitly on the right way.
- Ille Racing: 2.5: Sometimes on, sometimes off. Despite a good overall result with Monte Christo, it's only a 2 +0.5 for his good work in the Gruppetto.
- la fr des Jeux: 2: He likes the peloton most. Always riding for a sprint royal when online. Lot's of the stages offline. No result. 2.
- ONCE-TEAM: 3: Active when there, but no results at all. Thus, a solid 3.
- Rasmussen: 2: Felt online in about 1/3 of the stages. But still no result. At least nice and active when on. Thus it's a 2.
- RV Zahna: 3.5: Almost on podium with Kljujew. Was hard for him because he could not know that the Hubers would not be there. Thus, did not rider for Saidov. Anyway, his behaviour during a race is still a mystery to me. Very inactive in the chat, only very steril answers, speculative, relctant. Although he has two stage wins, I give his overall performance a 3.5. Better than average, but not overall good because of my last point.
- Secret Team: 1: Offliner, Huberteam. Just dead weight on the road and in the GC.
- SM Team: 2: Sure white before the tour. Lots of nonsens talking during the tour. No stage-result at all. A born pessimist who gives up before even trying. Not my type. It's a 2.
- Squeeze: 2: Another new team, that started with less than 50 races before the Tour. Although sometimes good, overall it was a weird tour by Squeeze. No stage win, no decent GC placement. Thus it's an under average performance.
- SV Furpach: 4: Always in the escape, always against a sprint royal. And: Very good performance with Joe Hill who is runner-up behind Quaresma in the GC. Therefore, it was a good performance, good fighting spirit and always a nice guy to have in a race. Not better because he has only one stage win (Tom Banks in an escape). Better than average because of his very nice jersey
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- Team ABC-Polsat: 4: One of the most consistant teams during the Tour 9h with ups and downs. Nice performance with Lewandowski, despite his little mistake. 2 stage wins and podium. No Lelay. It's a 4.
- Team FL: 3.5: 3 expected stage wins, the rest was more or less a fight against bad skills (Ollé Ollé), bad situations (Unsinn) or stupid behaviour himself. At least 2 stage wins more could have been possible. The result were second and third places en masse and a financial loss. Compared with others, this performance was still a bit over average.
- Team Garda Lake: 2: First very active, then gone suddenly. Don't know what happened. When on, ok, but because of the offline times in the end it's only a 2. Anyway, no results at all.
- Team Nokia: 1.5: +0.5 for showing up sometimes (I guess?). But not more.
- TEAM TAKA: 1: Not much too say. Big words, small performance. Gave up when he had no chance anymore after his offline episode (technical problems according to him). Was the main favorite for the GC with Wozniacki.
- TUTTIFRUTTI: 2.5: good beginning, won stage 3 with Superchi and also after that very active. But then the online times decline rapidly. And some very weird actions by himself and his sitter BsgXtreme casted a cloud over his good performance during the first week. Thus, it can not be seen as an overall average performance or even more. 2,5 from my side.