Written by TeamTVM at 21:02 16/9-2022
S59 –Div1 – 2134 pts – 3vic. 12res. – No jersey/trophy
For the first time in our history, TeamTVM spends all season long in div1. Calderone is our most successful riders in terms of points (and wins Route du Cidre as his first div1 victory), while Haapakovski secures a prestigious podium at Germany Tour SC and Lagrasso finishes 4th again at Nederlandse GC.
During that season, the ‘10,000 points in career’ milestone is reached by TeamTVM, and we temporarily stand as first French team in the OCM ranking.
Leo Calderone gets his first award as ‘Best FR Rider’.
S60 – Div7-Div1 – 2273 pts – 20vic. 45res. – 2 jerseys / 2 trophies
Despite all these achievements, at the end of season 59 we feel it is very demanding to constantly secure top9s in div1, especially as our strongest sprinter was only 218 SP. Simultaneously, real life activity means that team manager can not spend the right amount of time needed to optimise every aspect of team management and planning, so we decide it ss time for a break from competitive racing to get riders TF recharged and race them on PL tactics so that they get more XP.
We then make a special plan to make the most of a 12 days TF period at end of season. From day 78 to 88, our team is able to climb from div7 to div1 while collecting 44 results among which 19 victories (456k race prizes), 2 jerseys and 1 trophy… very much worth the lengthy preparation ! 18 riders score during these 11 days, and Robert Ajaezu emerges as our new sprinting captain when winning Orel-Kursk Classic and Baltimore Invitational and finishing second at FoW SC.
S61 – Div1 – 2658 pts – 6vic. 15res. – No jersey/trophy
Surfing on the end of this season supersonic rise, our team tries to score as many points as possible before day 78, and manages to reach the 3rd spot of the OCM podium with an outstanding amount of 4801 points.
Calderone and Ajaezu are the two main contributors, respectively with 1010 points (new team record) and 490 points. Stu O'Connor brought our best div1 Classic result by finsihing 2nd at Norwich – London (with super legs).
Our team strongly invests in young guns training (over 1M$ during S61), and especially trains two French riders -strangely enough for the first time in its history-, Donovan Kauffmann and Nathanaël Petitjean, who turn out as nice young captains. As a two-fold consequence, it soon becomes obvious that the team should get more and more French riders on board, and diversify its goals from a pure SP team.
Training gets financed by the sale of 2 riders, legendary Urmas Haapakoski and Jurijus Horvitz, for a combined amount of 990k. Letting Haapakovski go is not an easy choice, but we reckon we have some other good and younger sprinters to replace him.
Leo Calderone gets his second award as ‘Best FR Rider’.
At season end, team value reaches 3,280,000 $.
S62 (first half) – Div2-Div1 – 2125 pts – 8vic. 17res. – 2 jerseys
Main goal for this season is then to prove competitive in 4 disciplines, which is rare at the highest level and for a young team. So far, we have achieved the following results with 5 home-trained riders :
SP : Robert Ajaezu wins Volta ao Porto SC
FR : Leo Calderone leads the unofficial FR ranking
CB : Denis Demoré wins Haute-Normandie YC (and 2nd on GC), while Donovan Kauffmann places 2nd at Tweedaagse van Antwerpen YC and 2nd at Minsk Classic
CL : Nathanaël Petitjean places 2nd at Vuelta de los Castillos YC
On the positive side, 2 jerseys, but on the negative one, lots of 2nd spots !
Main goals for the second half season will be taking part in Germany Tour and Nederlandse Tour, winning the FR competition, and targeting for the first time the World Championships.
Our team also intends to continue training a lot of riders while trying to spend little money on young talents or trained riders (so far, we have not bought any talent over 55k$ and any rider over 210 k$).
Global figures of the 10 seasons
- 6 jerseys and 4 trophies
- 194 results among which 74 victories
- 18,436 points scored and 2,927 k$ earned (placing 317th team in All time statistics)
- 5 awards (3 times ‘Best Young Team’, 2 times ‘Best FR rider’)
- 3 ‘semi-Awards’ for most points earned in category : Best Sprint team once ; Best FR team twice
- 20 fully trained riders, but only 2 French riders
- More than 4,000,000 $ spent on training
4 most prolific riders for the team :
Urmas Haapakoski (1 jersey + 1 trophy) –3,214 pts / 535k$
Leo Calderone (0 jersey/trophy) – 3,085 pts / 346k$
Marzio Lagrasso (1 trophy) – 1,885pts / 225k$
Robert Ajaezu (1 jersey + 2 trophies) – 803 pts / 123 k$
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Comments
Looking forward to a victorious update!! :)
You did an awesome job during all these seasons. Very impressive looks like new press release will come soon :)
Thanks !
Impressive journey and write up. Good luck on the rest of the season!
You have been rising so fast... Very good management over the seasons.
And nice to see the FR competition is a real target.
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