The 8th stage of the Vuelta was won by Yvo de Cleer, but in the 9th stage we were very disappointed by the 11th place of Arjen Rutte, the 14th place of Andreas van Zijl and the 19th place of Yvo de Cleer. Also sponsor Mercedes Benz was disappointed, so we won't ride in a Mercedes bus next season.
The last stage of the Vuelta was won by our Arjen Rutte before Julius Maalderink (2nd), Daniel Rooijakkers (13th) and Andreas van Zijl (23rd). That was our 5th win in the Vuelta.
In the GC we got a happy sponsor Ford who could choose between Yvo de Cleer and Arjen Rutte:
1 Les Winger 19 WinterIsComing 0: 00" 1000 166667
2 Pedro Kranz 19 MelonKas 1: 26" 800 150000
3 Giovanni Arias 19 WinterIsComing 1: 33" 650 133333
4 Nobby Kellman 19 $Tourmalet 2: 01" 550 116667
5 Romeu Maximo 19 Kalarratas 2: 08" 500 100000
6
Yvo De Cleer 19 Combuijs 2: 25" 450 83333
7 Michel Elzinga 19 WinterIsComing 2: 47" 400 66667
8
Arjen Rutte 19 Combuijs 5: 55" 350 58333
And we had Andreas van Zijl on 19th place. So we will ride in Ford Transits next season :-)
Still some food for thought as we had calculated that Arjen would end higher than Yvo in the GC which was not the case, even when Arjen was leader in all stages.
Tristan Prins was second in the Giro de Lombardia, helper Eddy Room 29th.
The World Championship time trial was won by Spaniard Jesus Alberto Soto of WinterIsComing. Our Daniel Rooijakkers was 12th, Koen Helder 21st and Norman Schuh 26th.
The World Championship race was won by Australian Isaac Montgomery of WinterIsComing. Our Carlo Bemelmans was 12th.
Team classification at the end of the season:
1º WinterIsComing 39220 9 8 20
2º $Tourmalet 33786 11 17 15
3º
Combuijs 30182 24 19 11
4º Kalarratas 21321 4 14 10
5º CojoNudos 19924 3 6 4
6º Plopsala 17388 17 4 4
7º Bolaverde 16378 7 6 8
8º Jediondos 14243 0 2 4
9º MelonKas 10835 2 5 1
10º eaglesOFcarthage 10494 9 3 5
Individual classification at the end of the season:
1º Pedro Kranz 19 5982 MelonKas 2 5 1
2º
Julius Maalderink 19 5454 Combuijs 6 6 2
3º Romeu Maximo 19 5269 Kalarratas 1 3 3
4º
Yvo De Cleer 19 5260 Combuijs 7 3 1
5º Valentijn Teffer 19 5079 WinterIsComing 3 2 3
6º Kirk Trump 19 4942 $Tourmalet 3 2 5
7º Nobby Kellman 19 4802 $Tourmalet 0 5 3
8º Hallgeir Solhaug 19 4351 Bolaverde 5 1 0
9º Lucas Freitas 19 3730 Kalarratas 0 2 0
10º
Tristan Prins 19 3699 Combuijs 2 5 3
11º
Carlo Bemelmans 19 3667 Combuijs 3 2 2
And so we are going to prepare for a very tough next season on World Tour level.