Last WT team to get a win 2018

[Breh]

We're left with Trek, Team Education First powered by Cannondale, AG2R, DDD and Bahrain Merida who haven't picked up a WT win yet. I think.
Meanwhile, Sunweb and Bora have only won WT races so far.

WT wins ranking:

4- Movistar, BMC
3- Mitchelton - Scott, LottoBE, Sky
2- Quick Step, LottoNL, Bora, Katusha, FDJ
1- Sunweb, Astana, UAE
0- Trek, Team EF, AG2R, DDD, Bahrain

Points, kom and youth jerseys are not included.

 

[Breh]

Bahrain and Trek picked up a WT win.
Team EF, DDD and Ag2r to battle it out.

 

[RedheadDane]

Aaand… they're still fighting.

 

[Akuryo]

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PS: funny how QS went from the least winning team to the most winning team from '11 to '12.

Bakala bought the team after 2011 and they spend big afterwards on guys like Cavendish, Kittel, etc. Before they only had money for Boonen and in May their season was basically over.

 

[El Pistolero]

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PS: funny how QS went from the least winning team to the most winning team from '11 to '12.

Bakala bought the team after 2011 and they spend big afterwards on guys like Cavendish, Kittel, etc. Before they only had money for Boonen and in May their season was basically over.

Cav & Kittel didn't ride for QS in 2012. They did buy a lot of cyclists from the folding of HTC (Tony Martin, Velits brothers, Bert Grabsch, Brammeier), Trentin joined them after having been a stagiaire in 2011 and they also bought Leipheimer and Kwiatkowski from Team Radioshack.

The majority of wins came from riders who were already part of QS in 2011 however, like Boonen, Chichi, Terpstra, Chavanel.

 

[Koronin]

Are all 3 going to go the entire season without a win?

 

[Breh]

They've all gone more than 1year without a WT win aswell.
Their last WT victories all came in the 2017 Tour with Uran, Bardet and Hagen winning a stage there.

 

[del1962]

Looking at each teams prospect in Vuelta

EF - a stage win for Uran or Woods is there most likely root.

AG2R - This is difficult to see anything from them, Gallopin of Gougeard possibly in break, but there form has not been that good.

DD - Same as AG2R - perhaps Cummings can find some form and get into the right break,

 

[Akuryo]

And yet it is Lefevere/Quickstep with 55 wins who cant seem to find sponsorship.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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And yet it is Lefevere/Quickstep with 55 wins who cant seem to find sponsorship.

Yes, but Quickstep are in the market for sponsors willing to pony up a larger budget than those teams. There are a lot more companies around that might be persuaded to throw a Garmin type budget at a cycling team than there are companies who would even consider spending a Quickstep type budget on the sport.

 

[42x16ss]

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Looking at each teams prospect in Vuelta

EF - a stage win for Uran or Woods is there most likely root.

AG2R - This is difficult to see anything from them, Gallopin of Gougeard possibly in break, but there form has not been that good.

DD - Same as AG2R - perhaps Cummings can find some form and get into the right break,

With Cav and Cummings out of form and EBH past his major goals for the season things don’t look good. The only hope for Di Data is O’Connor continuing to step up (if selected) or one of their DS’s taping a spare wheel to the back of a lead moto and hoping Meintjes sees it.

 

[del1962]

Re: Re:

Looking at each teams prospect in Vuelta

EF - a stage win for Uran or Woods is there most likely root.

AG2R - This is difficult to see anything from them, Gallopin of Gougeard possibly in break, but there form has not been that good.

DD - Same as AG2R - perhaps Cummings can find some form and get into the right break,

With Cav and Cummings out of form and EBH past his major goals for the season things don’t look good. The only hope for Di Data is O’Connor continuing to step up (if selected) or one of their DS’s taping a spare wheel to the back of a lead moto and hoping Meintjes sees it.

Actually the other option DD might have for a stage win is Ryan Gibbons, small chance but he is one for the future, perhaps Eddie wins a canadian one day race if he goes and finds some form

 

[tobydawq]

Naesen brought AG2R out of this contest.

 

[Finn84]

We have a "winner"!

Ben King brings Dimension Data out, leaving only EF Education.

edit: Meaning obviously WT wins.

 

[Gigs_98]

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We have a "winner"!

Ben King brings Dimension Data out, leaving only EF Education.

edit: Meaning obviously WT wins.

EF Education really is the the sky of this competition.

 

[RedheadDane]

They'll get a WT win, sometimes next year.
If they're lucky.

 

[spalco]

Aren't there literally hundreds of opportunities for WT wins every season, how is it even possible for a pro team to win nothing in a whole year?

 

[roundabout]

not quite hundreds, I think it's 170 something racing days, non-mandatory events included

 

[spalco]

Including jersey and GC wins?

 

[Leinster]

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EF Education out thanks to Uran.

From Feb 10th this year. So EF are only still in because the WT criterion was introduced early due to all teams winning *something* so early in the season.

Slipstream’s lack of WT success is a bit of an embarrassment for them at this stage.

 

[Leinster]

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not quite hundreds, I think it's 170 something racing days, non-mandatory events included

Spread between 16 teams, and with some teams only grabbing one or two, you’d really have to be avoiding the finish line to not just accidentally win something along the way.

 

[roundabout]

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Including jersey and GC wins?

ah, I overlooked the GC, so it's pretty close to 200 chances

I don't think a jersey win is considered in this thread though

 

[RedheadDane]

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EF Education out thanks to Uran.

From Feb 10th this year. So EF are only still in because the WT criterion was introduced early due to all teams winning *something* so early in the season.

Slipstream’s lack of WT success is a bit of an embarrassment for them at this stage.

This has been a "two part" thing for a few years now.
First we go by wins in general (well, cat 1 and above), then we start looking at WT wins.
And I'd say Slipstreams lack of success period if a bit of an embarrassment. Four wins? That what Quickstep gets in a (good) week!

 

[valentius borealis]

Slipstream have gone 2 years without a WT win before, so their current drought is nothing new.

 

[Koronin]

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EF Education out thanks to Uran.

From Feb 10th this year. So EF are only still in because the WT criterion was introduced early due to all teams winning *something* so early in the season.

Slipstream’s lack of WT success is a bit of an embarrassment for them at this stage.

This has been a "two part" thing for a few years now.
First we go by wins in general (well, cat 1 and above), then we start looking at WT wins.
And I'd say Slipstreams lack of success period if a bit of an embarrassment. Four wins? That what Quickstep gets in a (good) week!

No kidding about Quickstep. There are several riders who have at least 3 times that many wins for the season on their own.