Written by Silenzio at 12:20 30/1-2023
Our first time to reach top10 (10th with 3423 points), with no less than 19 riders contributing points! Barely, after a breakaway win on the final day we managed to get in by 3 points margin. By scoring our 25th tour stage win this season we got the silver stage contender badge, and with  Qin Kejun 5th in La Provence we finally managed to get into top9 of 10 different classics (bronze classic contender). Because we didn't linger much in the lower divisions, this was not possible for our team when we focussed on sprinting only.
U23
S63 turned out to be a great U23-season, with the babytourwin and in total 7 youthriders recording one or more U23-wins. 14 wins of our total 21 this season was scored by our youth team in u23 races (493 points in total):
Elmar Deimek 160 points (3 wins, 7 results, 8 top9s)
Qin Kejun 117 points (5 wins, 7 results, 11 top9s)
Maximilien Esteves 84 points (2 wins, 3 results, 5 top9s)
Benedetto Pilosi 30 points (1 wins, 2 results, 2 top9s)
Marty Mortimer 30 points (1 wins, 1 results, 1 top9s)
Thibault De Vaddere 30 points (1 wins, 1 results, 1 top9s)
Marco Horring 30 points (1 wins, 1 results, 1 top9s)
Benedict Gavilán 10 points (0 wins, 1 results, 1 top9s)
Dario Funes 2 points (0 wins, 0 results, 1 top9s)
Sprint
This sprint season was one to forget with some speed. The tours/cups were pretty disappointing: missed signup in Vuelta Castillos for Ervin, not a third win in Copa Salsa for Ceballos, a second place in a bizarre Germany Tour SC with Gus. In the classics we had less of a favorites position and we managed to end 3rd (Norwich-London, De Baets), 5th (Astana GP, Ceballos) and 4th (Helsinki GP, Pinhal).
Different directions
With 4 palmares available in Cobbling, and many more in climbing, it was a logical choice for us to move away from FR-riding with only one big race in D1 that can also be targetted by FR-heavy sprinters. So we decided to get rid of some riders and invest in talents and made riders in climbing, hilling and cobbling disciplines. At current both CL and CB seems only competitive for YCs. Tough decisions now have to be made about the goals in Vuelta de los Castillos and Germany Tour.
Getting the team into position to once aim for a higher ranking than our rank10 last season, certainly is among the goals in the future. For now we believe our climbers and cobblers need to grow and the squads could use some furthering strenghtening. Meanwhile we start trying to rejuvenate the SP-squad while the core team is in its prime.
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Top 5 scoring riders of all-time
1. Gus Bailey*: 2 jerseys, 14 wins, 28 results, 47 times money. Prize money: 446.5k. Points: 3594.
2. Rajnay Bela*: 2 trophies, 2 jerseys, 10 wins, 25 results, 41 times money. Prize money: 364k. Points: 2910
3. Sima Ervin*: 5 wins, 14 results, 31 times money. Prize money: 282k. Points: 2362.
4. Reynardo Ceballos*: 2 trophies, 8 wins, 14 results, 23 times money. Prize money: 201k. Points: 1560.
5. Tijmen Van Lieshout: 1 jersey, 8 wins, 17 results, 27 times money. Prize money: 212k. Points: 1216.
*Still active for Silenzio
Lineup for S64:
Sprintteam
Gus Bailey 247 SP, 168 LOSP
Reynardo Ceballos 235 SP, 283 SARS, 165 LOSP
Rajnay Bela 215 SP, 289 SARS, 159 LOSP
Sima Ervin 216 SP, 286 SARS
Thijs Bouwens 220 SP, 170 LOSP
Pierrot De Baets 212 SP, 172 LOSP
Carel Bastin 219 SP, 165 LOSP
Keith Lazarus trainee
Climb/tour team
Maurycy Piekarski 218 Climber, 297 PS
Elmar Deimek 202 Climber, 236 Hillclimber, 285 PS
Qin Kejun 206 Climber, 234 Hillclimber, 285 PS
Marty Mortimer 233 Climber, 280 PS
Maximilien Esteves 217 Climber
Claudio Cacares 211 Climber
Kent De Meulder trainee
David Thonhofer leaving
Cobbleteam
Ábrahám Vilmos 259 Cobbler, 203 PP
Grant Simoni 209 PP
Benedict Gavilán 210 PP
Thibault De Vaddere 208 PP
Dario Funes 191 PP
Filip Norgren trainee
OUT in S63
Lenny Bertilsson to Time Indaiatuba
Josué Pinhal to Andeby
Yens Paschiers to ciccioneverde
Twan Fokkens to Holwerda Cycling
Jose Agia to FFL
Gudmund Viken to Andeby
Danilo Vallalpando to Spliff Cycling
Bryant Hailey to Rantanplan
Marco Horring to Andeby
Benedetto Pilosi to BGK Cycling Team
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Comments
Still in doubt how to distribute Sima, Reynardo and Bela over Vuelta and Copa.
Bela getting a captaincy outing again?
What a domination in U-23 tour, congratulations!
Also with you top-10 ranking offcourse ;)
Impressive season, congrats! You overtook me with those badges despite being here for a much shorter time! And you even forgot the chatterbox sliver badge, the most important achievement ;-)
Keep on doing your great work, which hopefully will take you even higher!
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