Not a good Tour de France at all, too many tactical mistakes and too much bad luck, and therefore a dissapointing final GC result.
TdF stage 1, sprint ;12º
Vilks ("helper")
35º Rønneberg ( free role ) 0:20"
83º Arnau ( teamcaptain ) 1:14"
The sprint helper started too fast, but Arnau had a back up helper in s1 + s2.
But already isolated in s3 and finishing on 1:14" is not good, too much time loss.
In contrast to Arnau, free role Rønneberg was riding a good sprint stage.
TdF stage 2, climb-sprint ;18º
Rønneberg ( free role )
0:30" 
20º
Arnau ( teamcaptain )
0:30" First favorite Rønneberg came over the finishline celebrating and cheering,
till someone told him that he won the sprint of the 2nd group instead of the sprint for stage victory.
Big tactical mistakes, and even dumb, because I should have known better. For sure both could have finished on 0:00" easily.
TdF stage 3, flatcobble-sprint ;85º Arnau ( teamcaptain ) 1:52"
122º Rønneberg ( free role ) 2:59"
Perfect help of masterhelper Gauch.
TdF stage 4, cobblehills ;10º Gauch ( free role )
54º Arnau ( teamcaptain ) 1:46"
91º Rønneberg ( free role ) 2:25"
Arnau was isolated the whole race because helper Vilks was simply not good enough ; one group behind Arnau in s1, s2, and s3.
TdF stage 5, hills ;26º
Arnau ( teamcaptain ) 0:27"
32º Rønneberg ( free role ) 0:31"
Arnau had good help in all sections, despite masterhelper Gauch failed, but Vilks surprised a lot by being the s4 helper.
Still, maybe the tactics were a bit too conservative and it was possible to finish a few seconds better.
TdF stage 6, mountains ; 2º Szõnyi ( free role ) 0:00"
29º
Arnau ( teamcaptain ) 1:27" --> as first of a big group, this unlucky cut costed him
- 0:29"51º Rønneberg ( free role ) 2:14" --> as first of a big group, this unlucky cut costed him
- 0:19"In retrospective, bad strategic choices.
I should have sacrificed Rønneberg as helper, or even better due to bad GC rankings, Szõnyi should have been the teamcaptain.
TdF stage 7, sprint ;25º
Vilks ( helper ) 0:00"
67º Rønneberg ( free role ) 1:51"
89º Arnau ( teamcaptain ) 1:51"
Vilks was doing a good job in s1 and s2, but in s3 both my tour cyclists could not follow him and dropped to the 2nd group.
Rønneberg had a complete off-day, his result sucks compared to sprint stage 1 where he finished on 0:20"
Probably caused by a mechanical breakdown, but I cannot remember and I cannot see that anymore.
TdF stage 8, TT-HFFMM ;3º Arnau 0:08"
30º
Rønneberg 0:51"
Excellent result of Arnau, and promising due to the TdF (with 3x TT stages) of next season that should go much better than this TdF.
TdF stage 9, mountains ; 3º Szõnyi ( free role ) 0:11"
23º
Arnau ( teamcaptain ) 1:44"
62º Rønneberg (
helper ) 3:17"
It was certainly not a genius tactical move to make Rønneberg the helper, he only helped in s1, instead of the expected first 3 sections.
Again a podiumplace of Szõnyi in a free role, in contrast to my GC contenders, he does not dissapoint in this TdF.
TdF stage 10, TT-FFHHF ;6º Gauch13º
Arnau 0:39"
40º Rønneberg 1:13"
A surprising good result of Gauch.
Again a mechanical breakdown in s5 of Rønneberg, most likely he had it too in s5 of stage 9, but I'm not entire certain about stage 9.
But this bad luck s5 finish in stage 10 is very appropiate to this TdF of Rønneberg, and most likely caused a drop of one GC place.
Tour de France, final GC ; 12º
Arnau 3:59"
20º
Rønneberg 8:32"
The goal was to achieve the 1 M sponsordeal of top 6 GC.
So, that will be a job for next season to the now 29yo Arnau.
I already told him that if he fails again, then he will be sold for 1,-
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Clasica San Sebastian ; 19º
Rønneberg Ups, a tactical mistake that he was isolated in the s3 front group.
What was not even the worst that went wrong, because Rønneberg had a
mechanical breakdown in the crucial mountain s4.
