Last WT team to get a 2021 season win

[dick the quick]

Mid-Febraury is appropriate time to officially start the traditional annual contest: who will be the last WT team to get a 2021 season win?

9 teams are already out, 10 teams are still in the game:

Ag2R: Aurelien Paret-Peintre (Jan 31, Grand Prix de la Marseillaise)
Astana: ---
Bahrain: Phil Bauhaus (Feb 14, Tour de la Provence stage 4)
BikeExchange: Cameron Meyer (Feb 7, Australia NCRR)
Bora: ---
Cofidis: Christophe Laporte (Feb 3. Etoile de Besseges stage 1)
Deuceninck: Davide Ballerini (Feb 11, Tour de la Provence stage 1)
DSM: ---
EF: ---
Groupama: ---
Ineos: Filippo Ganna (Feb 6. Etoile de Besseges stage 4)
Intermarche: ---
Israel: ---
Jumbo: George Bennett (Feb 14, New Zealand NCRR)
Lotto: Tim Wellens (Feb 5, Etoile de Besseges stage 3)
Movistar: ---
Qhubeka: Giacomo Nizzolo (Feb 14, Clasica de Almeria)
Trek: ---
UAE: ---

Poll is attached.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

With a decimated Spanish calendar this should be between Movistar and Intermarché. Voted for the latter as it could be a very long time before this competition is decided.

 

[hayneplane]

Surely National races should not be included for the purposes of this competition as the riders don’t compete for their trade team.
It won’t have a material impact as Jumbo and Bike Exchange should win soon anyway.

 

[Koronin]

Surely National races should not be included for the purposes of this competition as the riders don’t compete for their trade team.
It won’t have a material impact as Jumbo and Bike Exchange should win soon anyway.

Actually they do, it's just some have no teammates and other's have 2/3rds of their teammates. Hence the reason the Spanish National Championships at times look more like the Movistar Invitational than anything else.

 

[RedheadDane]

Hence the reason the Spanish National Championships at times look more like the Movistar Invitational than anything else.

Aaah yeah. Teams playing pass the jersey at their local National Championship! FDJ are also doing it over in France...

As for the poll; I'm gonna go with Wanty (Intermarche)! They're the new boy in the class.

 

[RedheadDane]

Trek out.

 

[Anderis]

The eternal favourites for this competition - EF - have never "won" it.

This year nobody mentions them so it'll be them.

 

[RedheadDane]

And... Israel out!

 

[Escarabajo]

So which teams are left?

 

[tobydawq]

Those in the poll minus Trek and Israel.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So much for my pick. I'd forgotten that they had signed Woods, or I might have reconsidered.

 

[tobydawq]

So much for my pick. I'd forgotten that they had signed Woods, or I might have reconsidered.

Froome will probably have four wins in a week's time.

 

[Parker]

Surely National races should not be included for the purposes of this competition as the riders don’t compete for their trade team.
It won’t have a material impact as Jumbo and Bike Exchange should win soon anyway.

I agree that Nats shouldn't count, but for a different reason. Not all of the teams are can enter those races.

 

[RedheadDane]

I agree that Nats shouldn't count, but for a different reason. Not all of the teams are can enter those races.

Sure, a team can't enter a national championship if they don't have riders of that nation, but otherwise there are no restrictions. Sure, it gives BikeExchange - or whatever the team has been called during the years - a bit of an advantage to get an early win.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

That's all a matter of tactics: if a team has real ambitions for winning this thing, they need a recruitment policy that enables it, such as not having strong Aussies or Colombians.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I think Qhubeka should be incluced in the poll, because the team is bad apart from Nizzolo. And he even said that he didn't want the help of his team during the sprint in Almeria, so it shouldn't count for them.

 

[dick the quick]

UAE is out.

 

[Anderis]

UAE won in UAE. How fitting.

They're not out, yet, though. If the other teams don't win until the end of the season, UAE will be the last team to get a win.

 

[RedheadDane]

They're not out, yet, though. If the other teams don't win until the end of the season, UAE will be the last team to get a win.

Has there ever been a season during which multiple teams did not get even one victory? Even last year ever team managed to get a few wins, even if CCC had to wait until after lockdown to get their first.

 

[Anderis]

The fewest wins for a WT team I can remember was 4 (Fuji in 2009 and AG2R in 2012). Pretty sure there has never been a winless team, let alone two.

How did AG2R manage only 4 wins despite being a French team and riding all of those small French races no big teams outside of France bother with is a mystery.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

The fewest wins for a WT team I can remember was 4 (Fuji in 2009 and AG2R in 2012). Pretty sure there has never been a winless team, let alone two.

We could definitely see Intermarché break that record though, as long as the calendar is condensed they're unlikely to get their tally going.

 

[Netserk]

The fewest wins for a WT team I can remember was 4 (Fuji in 2009 and AG2R in 2012). Pretty sure there has never been a winless team, let alone two.

How did AG2R manage only 4 wins despite being a French team and riding all of those small French races no big teams outside of France bother with is a mystery.

Movistar only had 2 wins last year.

 

[Anderis]

Movistar only had 2 wins last year.

Right, I forgot. But I think we can all agree it was easier than ever to end up with fewer wins last year with so many races cancelled.

 

[RedheadDane]

Movistar only had 2 wins last year.

Same for Cofidis.

 

[Sciatic]

Right, I forgot. But I think we can all agree it was easier than ever to end up with fewer wins last year with so many races cancelled.

That’s true: they couldn’t add their anticipated Paris-Roubaix win to their tally