Australia NT season 4

[Vos]

I guess Franky is still in holiday-modus despite he is back from his holiday in maybe Hollywood and I know what he did there ; Relax ! 
So I will do "his" job one more time.

RACE 3 : Dutch sprint


11ºC

Breda, the Netherlands,
A few weeks ago Venray was also the finish of a sprint stage in the BinckBank Tour. See picture, Hodeg won.

I suspect that NT manager $Tourmalet selected Nelson as team captain.
In previous season he did great in both flat sprint races with a 8th and 10th place.
In season 2 Dixon was the team captain in a flat sprint race and finished as 7th.
Remarkable in all 3 NT sprint races so far, that is that just the team captain could score points.
So, most likely again not many points in a sprint race. But who knows, maybe a surprising very good result.
Because the young Aussies are supermotivated this time since they saw their names in the excellent lists made by Franky.

Australia NT selection ( in random order ) :

Donovan Foley (22) NervionBike
David Dixon (22) LosTxinosKudeiros
Liam Duffy (22) ProCyclingTeam10
Tony Carter (22) Vitimper
Bobby Jordan (22) LosTxinosKudeiros
Derek Nelson (22) Yvo_Meppelink_ProCycling
Robbie Palmer (22) Paquetazos
Gordon Woods (22) RealOviedo
Stu Woods (22) Wiggo_pupils

[Franky]

oh, sorry....I totally forgot and I've been away all the weekend... 

[miguel11gh]

Again Nelson doing his job.

1    Lajos Andor              22   0: 00"   300      IntellinetCyclingFF
2    Seb Walkins              22   0: 00"   250      SaulSalinasTeam
3    Lorenzo Ferreiro      22   0: 00"   225      Zatarra
4    Sergei Wild              22   0: 00"   200      Denver
5    Wilfred Bentinck      22   0: 00"   180      Yvo_Meppelink_ProCycling
6    Lasse Benjaminsen      22   0: 00"   160      Loshombresdelmazo
7    Gaulthier Verhoeven   22   0: 00"   150      Denver
8    Michele Raviolli      22   0: 00"   140      CessiApedali
9    Arnolds Vinogradovs   22   0: 00"   130      Picapedreros
10    Edgard Thevenet      22   0: 00"   120      Atlantico
11    Derek Nelson      22   0: 00"   110      Yvo_Meppelink_ProCycling
12    Attila Majoros              22   0: 00"   100      CyKings
13    Miguel Jose Sierra      22   0: 00"   90      Aropumarin
14    Jose Eduardo Flecha   22   0: 00"   80      Patata_man
15    Vicente Javier Carmona   22   0: 00"   70      Denver
16    Iñigo Perez              22   0: 00"   60      Kelme4ever
17    Joachim Arntsen      22   0: 14"   40      Loshombresdelmazo
18    Visvaldis Gulbis      22   0: 14"   30      Picapedreros
19    Rafael Szepesi              22   0: 14"   20      BOS
20    Valdemar Krone      22   0: 14"   10      Oska

[miguel11gh]

I don´t know the others skills, but I think always is in a place higer than his stats.

[Aurora Australis]

This week my TTers will begin their flat training, which means whatever result they get in the upcoming TT, they'll be expected to beat it next season.

[Vos]

I don´t know the others skills, but I think always is in a place higer than his stats.

Yes, I think the same but it is a while ago since I have seen the stats of Nelson, so my thoughts are not up to date.
You can ask the Dutch NT manager. He has good knowledge of the current topsprinters and Derek Nelson is riding in his team.
A funfact ; Derek Nelson is the most famous Australian according to the Australian NT page.

Next week a more suited NT race for Australia and hopefully again a lot of points like previous season, what was a record in one NT race.

[Franky]

STAGE 4: BREDA TIME TRIAL

Welcome to Breda, The Netherlands (again), in the first time trial stage in this season.






We expect a good bunch of points in this stage, as it happened last season, and advance some positions in the classification.

This is the ranking for this race:


So the final 9 are:
Isaac Trump Aurora_Australis
Les Rooney Frenkie
Hank Kewell Frenkie
Freddy Butcher Antequera
Jim Slipper Frenkie
Richard Levin Aurora_Australis
Ben Mitchum Aurora_Australis
Clyde Gill Frenkie
Owen Acree Aurora_Australis

[Aurora Australis]

Just a little comparison with Spain (with what I believe is their calculation formula)

Spain
1 Maximino Laguna 22 ChessPower 86.46
2 Higinio Espin 22 ChessPower 85.87 WIND
3 Kevin Santillana 22 ChessPower 85.29

Mine (note probably 2 extra training sessions since Spain's calculation)
Richard Levin 87.46
Isaac Trump 87.10
Ben Mitchum 84.91 (hot)
Owen Acree 84.71

By Sunday my cyclists will be an least another 0.5AV higher (maybe 0.75 depending on pop timings), so we'll be looking ok, particularly with Frenkie's as well.

[miguel11gh]

Puesto   Nombre   Pais   Edad   Distancia_al_vencedor   Puntos
1    Denis Anderson      22   0: 00"   300      TeaMetal
2    Maximino Laguna      22   0: 04"   250      ChessPower
3    Anton Rozin      22   0: 07"   225      Pomilles_Balears
4    Benny Andresen      22   0: 07"   200      CC_Porco_Jones
5    Sergio Manuel Serrano      22   0: 09"   180      VILLESVENSKAS
6    Richard Levin      22   0: 10"   160      Aurora_Australis
7    Ben Mitchum      22   0: 13"   150      Aurora_Australis
8    Isaac Trump      22   0: 16"   140      Aurora_Australis
9    Duncan Dekeyser      22   0: 17"   130      BLOEMENAANDEMITTE
10    Kaspar Elmholt      22   0: 18"   120      ChessPower
11    Freddy Butcher      22   0: 18"   110      Antequera
12    Kevin Santillana      22   0: 19"   100      ChessPower
13    Pavlo Kostrin      22   0: 19"   90      Facha_Bartolo
14    Owen Acree      22   0: 19"   80      Aurora_Australis
15    Higinio Espin      22   0: 19"   70      ChessPower
16    Alar Nõmm      22   0: 19"   60      Shiro_Lions
17    Aaron Saint-Germain      22   0: 21"   40      Psychoedge
18    Heinz-Dieter Maurer      22   0: 21"   30      Facha_Bartolo
19    Gérald Vercammen      22   0: 22"   20      Oska
20    Bryan Caballero      22   0: 23"   10      VILLESVENSKAS
21    Jim Slipper      22   0: 23"   0      Frenkie
22    Gianluca Raviolli      22   0: 24"   0      TeamSerfin
23    Edoardo Arzeni      22   0: 24"   0      Ares
24    Tibbe VanEchten      22   0: 25"   0      Facha_Bartolo
25    Veit Rautenberg      22   0: 25"   0      SaulSalinasTeam
26    Salustiano Revuelta      22   0: 26"   0      Yvo_Meppelink_ProCycling
27    Clyde Gill      22   0: 26"   0      Frenkie
28    Hank Kewell      22   0: 26"   0      Frenkie

[Franky]

Well well...we are again 2nd! It seems that this season, Spain would be Spain and they will win easy, we have to fight for the 2nd position!

[Vos]

Indeed, at the moment a great 2nd place in the ranking by countries. 
And race 6 is also a time trial with just one hill in it.
Then hopefully again the best in the day ranking (yesterday also, although just 30 points before Spain).

But also 2 cobblehills races and it is very close in the battle of the podiumplaces.
In previous season (C^ = cobblehills section) : FHHC^C^ 198km = 0 points.
In season 2 ( the world championship season  ) : HHC^C^C^ 179km = 250 points ( 6th and 13th )
But results of season 2 can be worthless, too long ago, talent rating and how good a manager trains an Aus.talent can make a huge difference.

[FIO]

 

Kieran Chambers   Age : 19   Wage : 817
Stamina : 64   Sprint : 3   Climbing : 66
Flat : 42   Cobblestone : 5   Technique : 63
Downhill : 67   Hills : 29   Aggressiveness : 27
Time Trial : 10   Teamwork : 36   Experience : 0
Price : Days left :    Stages raced : 0

[Franky]

Kieran Chambers   Age : 19   Wage : 817
Stamina : 64   Sprint : 3   Climbing : 66
Flat : 42   Cobblestone : 5   Technique : 63
Downhill : 67   Hills : 29   Aggressiveness : 27
Time Trial : 10   Teamwork : 36   Experience : 0
Price : Days left :    Stages raced : 0

I promoted one very very similar few days ago, and he was not sold even by 1000€ ... at this point of the season, is hard to sell a new 19yo guy, because rest of 19yo ones has much higher climbing skill

[Franky]

I just get my first Silver today...Joe!!

Joe Ryan   Age : 22   Wage : 819
Stamina : 76   Sprint : 30   Climbing : 92
Flat : 54   Cobblestone : 24   Technique : 18
Downhill : 76   Hills : 93   Aggressiveness : 77
Time Trial : 10   Teamwork : 10   Experience : 33

[Franky]

Hi all, we are still in the north of Europe, in the Benelux, now in Belgium, in a hard cobble-hills race, with a rainy and cold day. We will start in Bornem and finishing in Geraardsbergen.







Our 9:
Steve Sampson CopenHell
Gerard Bell NervionBike
Colin Ryan beerkes
Kirk Trump $Tourmalet
Lenny Pinkney Wiggo_pupils
Charlie Brubaker DeRodeVod
Nate Douglas SentinelChickens
Elliot Neville Manicomicos_Cycling_Team
Alex Byers EuskaPiero

Words from our National Manager:
"We have 3 stages left for finishing the World Cup and one of them is theoretically favorable to us (the time trial). We enter into the decisive phase in second position. Spain seems unattainable, the potential is enormous compared to ours. Our objective is to try to maintain that second position, it will be complicated because we have a few teams very very close and the next stage was one of those that we didn't manage to score last season. This season we have a different leader, and we are going to try to do it differently to see if we can get a good result. After the stage we will calibrate our options again, a priori I have good feelings."