Sunday, August 22,2010: Grand Prix Ouest-France 1 PT 248.3 km

[Mellow Velo]

Time to get a thread going on another Pro tour event.
Website:
http://www.grandprix-plouay.com/

Circuit and profile:
http://www.grandprix-plouay.com/pages/protour/circuit.php

Live race coverage is from 15-20CET to 17-10CET, when a France 3 feed should be available from the usual sources.

 

[roundabout]

Seems like an extra lap for this year. Go Rojas.

 

[boardhanger]

Voeckler figurera au départ à Plouay le 22 août aux côtés de son coéquipier de BBox Bouygues Telecom Anthony Charteau, meilleur grimpeur du Tour de France. Pour mémoire, le champion de France, vainqueur d'étape de la Grande Boucle à Bagnères-de-Luchon, a déjà remporté le Grand Prix Ouest-France en 2007. L’Alsacien avait gagné dans la foulée de son succès au Tour du Poitou-Charentes, auquel il participera également cette année du 24 au 27 août.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Santambrogio ftw. He will get his breakthrough win. Showing good from in poland and the recent italian races so he will win!

 

[hrotha]

Are you a fan of anyone who rides with Evans? Just curious.

I think in all the years I've been a cycling fan I've only managed to watch this race once. I'll try not to miss it this year.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

You kidding? Anybody who rode with Evans at Lotto is the devil incarnate. But if Evans is happy on a team, Evans' teammates will win everything ever - at least everything Evans himself won't win, which is not much. Evans! Evans Evans Evans.

Evans.

 

[hrotha]

You kidding? Anybody who rode with Evans at Lotto is the devil incarnate. But if Evans is happy on a team, Evans' teammates will win everything ever - at least everything Evans himself won't win, which is not much. Evans! Evans Evans Evans.

Evans.

You mean Evens.

 

[Ryaguas]

Start List:

SKY CYCLING TEAM

1 GERRANS Simon
2 WIGGINS Bradley
3 CALZATI Sylvain
4 CUMMINGS Stephen
5 DOWNING Russell
6 PAUWELS Serge
7 PORTAL Nicolas
8 POSSONI Morris

BBOX BOUYGUES TELECOM

11 ARASHIRO Yukiya
12 CHARTEAU Anthony
13 FEDRIGO Pierrick
14 GAUTIER Cyrille
15 ROLLAND Pierre
16 VOGONDY Nicolas
17 TURGOT Sébastien
18 LEFÈVRE Laurent

RABOBANK

21 ARDILA Mauricio
22 TEN DAM Laurens
23 NIERMANN Grischa
24 KRUIJSWIJK Steven
25 LANGEVELD Sebastian
26 NUYENS Nick
27 STAMSNIJDER Tom
28 VAN WINDEN Dennis

LAMPRE FARNESE VINI

31 CUNEGO Damiano
32 BOLE Grega
33 GAVAZZI Franscesco
34 ULISSI Diego
35 MORI Manuele
36 PIETROPOLLI Daniele
37 RIGHI Daniele
38 BALLONI Alfredo

ASTANA

41 BAZAYEV Assan KIREYEV Roman
42 FOFONOV Dimitri
43 GOUROV Maxim STANGELJ Gorazd
44 JUFRE POU Josep
45 PEREIRO SIO Oscar
46 ZEITS Andrey
47 RENEV Sergey
48 DYACHENKO Alexandr

AG2R LA MONDIALE

51 BOUET Maxime
52 RIBLON Christophe
53 DESSEL Cyril
54 ELMIGER Martin
55 HINAULT Sébastien
56 NOCENTINI Rinaldo
57 TURPIN Ludovic
58 MONDORY Lloyd

CAISSE D'EPARGNE

61 COYOT Arnaud
62 DRUJON Mathieu
63 JEANNESSON Arnold
64 MOREAU Christophe
65 PERGET Mathieu
66 ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin
67 PEREZ Francisco
68 COBO Juanjo

COFIDIS LE CREDIT EN LIGNE

71 DUQUE Léonardo
72 CUSIN Rémi
73 GALLOPIN Tony
74 ISTA Kevyn
75 KERN Christophe
76 LABBE Arnaud
77 MINARD Sébastien
78 PAURIOL Rémi

Francaise de Jeux

81 CHEREL Mickaël
82 DI GREGORIO Rémy
83 GERARD Arnaud
84 GESLIN Anthony
85 LE MEVEL Christophe
86 PINOT Thibault
87 ROUX Anthony
88 VAUGRENARD Benoît

TEAM KATUSHA

91 BOTCHAROV Alexander
92 ESKOV Nikita
93 BODROGI Laszlo
94 KHALILOV Mykhaylo
95 PETROV Evgueni
96 MAZZANTI Luca
97 KLIMOV Sergey
98 SILIN Egor

EUSKATEL-EUSKADI

101 INTXAUSTI Beñat
102 SESMA Daniel
103 GALDOS Aitor
104 OROZ Juanjo
105 FERNANDEZ DE LARREA Koldo
106 URTASUN Pablo
107 ARAMENDIA ECO Javier
108 TXURRUKA Ametes

TEAM MILRAM

111 ROBERTS Luke
112 FOTHEN Markus
113 TERPSTRA Niki
114 VOSS Paul
115 WEGMANN Fabian
116 FRÖHLINGER Johannes
117 ROHREGGER Thomas
118 SENTJENS Roy

TEAM HTC - COLUMBIA

121 BAK Lars
122 DOCKX Gert
123 GOSS Matthew
124 HANSEN adam
126 REYNES Vicente
127 VELITS Martin
128 VELITS Peter

GARMIN - SLIPSTREAM

131 FARRAR Tyler
132 FISHER Murilo
133 HESJEDAL Ryder
134 KREDER Michel
135 MARTIN Dan
136 PATE Danny
137 VAN DER VELDE Ricardo
138 WILSON Matt

LIQUIGAS

141 AGNOLI Valerio
142 GUARNIERI Jacopo
143 FINETTO Mauro
144 KOREN Kristijan
145 KUSCHYNSKI Aleksandr
146 SAGAN Peter
147 VANDBORGO Brian
148 SANTAROMITA Ivan

QUICK STEP

151 CATALDO Dario
152 CHAVANEL Sylvain
153 ENGELS Addy
154 FACCI Mauro
155 MALACARNE Davide
156 PINEAU Jérôme
157 REDA Francesco
158 VEDEL KVIST Thomas

FOOTON-SERVETTO

161 BENITEZ Alberto
162 CAPECCHI Eros
163 CAPELLI Ermanno
164 CORTI Marco
165 FELLINE Fabio
166 GIANETTI Noë
167 VITORIA David

TEAM RADIOSHACK

171 ROVNY Ivan
172 IMPEY Daryl
173 BUSCHE Matthew
174 IRIZAR Markel
175 LEQUATTRE Geoffroy
176 ZUBELDIA Haimar
177 PAULINHO Sergio
178 POPOVYCH Yaroslav

TEAM SAXO BANK

181 LUND Anders
182 STEENSEN André
183 COOKE Baden
184 SORENSEN Chris Anker
185 LARSSON Gustav Erik
186 JORGENSEN Jonas Aaen
187 BELLIS Jonathan
188 MORKOV Michael

OMEGA PHARMA LOTTO

191 BAKELANTS Jan
192 BRANDT Christophe LLOYD Mathew
193 DELAGE Mickael
194 MORENO Daniel
195 GILBERT Philippe
196 PERAUD Jean-Christophe
197 VAN AVERMAET Greg
198 VANENDERT Jelle

BMC RACING TEAM

201 BALLAN Alexandro
202 BARTON Chris
203 BUTLER Chris
204 KROON Karsten
205 SANTAMBROGIO Mauro
206 WYSS Danilo
207 ZAHNER Simon
208 STALDER Florian

CERVELO TEST TEAM

211 DEIGNAN Philip
212 DENIFL Stefan
213 FLORENCIO xavier
214 KING Ted
215 LLOYD Daniel
216 NOVOA MENDEZ Joaquim
217 REIMER Martin
218 ROLLIN Dominique

SAUR - SOJASUN

221 COPPEL Jérome
222 HIVERT Jonathan
223 LEMOINE Cyril
224 LEVARLET Guillaume
225 GALLAND Jérome
226 MANGEL Laurent
227 SIMON Julien
228 TALABARDON Yannick

VACANSOLEIL CYCLING TEAM

231 CARRARA Matteo
232 FEILLU Brice
233 FEILLU Romain
234 HOOGERLAND Johnny
235 LEUKEMANS Björn
236 MARCATO Marco
237 MORTENSEN Martin
238 POELS Wout

SKIL-SHIMANO

241 DOCKER Mitchell
242 GOESINNEN Floris
243 ROOIJAKKERS Piet Broken collarbone
244 HOUANARD Steve
245 HUPOND Thierry
246 GENIEZ Alexandre
247 DOI Yukihiro
248 WILMANN Frédérick

 

[Ryaguas]

The start list is not completly updated cuz as you can see Pereiro is there...

Edit: So start saying your favorites... I'm still studying the startlist... =D

 

[auscyclefan94]

You kidding? Anybody who rode with Evans at Lotto is the devil incarnate. But if Evans is happy on a team, Evans' teammates will win everything ever - at least everything Evans himself won't win, which is not much. Evans! Evans Evans Evans.

Evans.

ACF94 never jokes around!! He is a similar rider to gerrans who won it last year and showed strong form in poland and races in italy. We have a good team going to france who could take a result away! The comment about lotto is not entirely true as I am a big fan of Philippe Gilbert.

 

[blaxland]

Santambrogio ftw. He will get his breakthrough win. Showing good from in poland and the recent italian races so he will win!

Agree he has good form at the moment.but i think Gerrans and Mollema should be in the mix aswell.Either way it should be great race.

 

[Ryaguas]

I'll go with:

Cunego - Duque FTW!
and
Santambrogio - Leukemans as Darkhorses...

Weird bet but... I have a feeling

 

[craig1985]

I'm going for Gilbert to win this. But who am I kidding, Sagan is racing, so everybody may as well pull out as he will smoke them.

Sagan > you.

 

[Anonymous]

cunego
farrar
gerrans

1-2-3

 

[boardhanger]

Ferdriggo.

 

[hrotha]

Grega Bole.

 

[boardhanger]

or, Turpin.

 

[boardhanger]

Weather for tomorrows race.

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=zmw:00000.52.07205&hourly=1&yday=232&weekday=Saturday

Some rain and wind.

 

[auscyclefan94]

cunego
farrar
gerrans

1-2-3

Farrar????? You do realise this is a tough little race?

Look at the past winners
2009 Simon Gerrans
2008 Pierrick Fédrigo
2007 Thomas Voeckler
2006 Vincenzo Nibali
2005 George Hincapie
2004 Didier Rous
2003 Andy Flickinger
2002 Jeremy Hunt
2001 Nico Mattan
2000 Michele Bartoli

No sprinters!

 

[auscyclefan94]

Agree he has good form at the moment.but i think Gerrans and Mollema should be in the mix aswell.Either way it should be great race.

In all seriousness, Mollema would have to go solo on the climb this race is won by classics guys. They have to be able to sprint well and be strong on the climbs.

 

[boardhanger]

In all seriousness, Mollema would have to go solo on the climb this race is won by classics guys. They have to be able to sprint well and be strong on the climbs.

This why i fancy Fredriggo or Turpin.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

You kidding? Anybody who rode with Evans at Lotto is the devil incarnate. But if Evans is happy on a team, Evans' teammates will win everything ever - at least everything Evans himself won't win, which is not much. Evans! Evans Evans Evans.

Evans.

haha spot on.

I think in all the years I've been a cycling fan I've only managed to watch this race once. I'll try not to miss it this year.

it's not a bad race, last years edition was entertaining.

In all seriousness, Mollema would have to go solo on the climb this race is won by classics guys. They have to be able to sprint well and be strong on the climbs.

mollema wont win this, but it is a weird race. Hard to predict.

I'll be hoping for hoogie to step up, but i think he is all burnt out.
anywhu Go gilbert -- though i'm not sure he will be hitting form yet with the wc in mind.

I predict fredrigo wins this tho.

 

[auscyclefan94]

mollema wont win this, but it is a weird race. Hard to predict.

I'll be hoping for hoogie to step up, but i think he is all burnt out.
anywhu Go gilbert -- though i'm not sure he will be hitting form yet with the wc in mind.

I predict fredrigo wins this tho.

that's what I said. Hopefully hoogerland can show some strong form in the 2nd half of the season. Have you voted yet timmy?

It is a good race for gilbert but their are some guys who are stronger sprinters so he may have to attack and win solo or from a small group.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

yes i have.

gilbert actually packs a decent sprint, especially after 250 km, on terrain that suits him too. but like i said, i don't think he will have the form at this time. He wouldn't try peak for this, when the wc are a monnth and a bit away.

 

[hrotha]

Farrar????? You do realise this is a tough little race?

Look at the past winners
2009 Simon Gerrans
2008 Pierrick Fédrigo
2007 Thomas Voeckler
2006 Vincenzo Nibali
2005 George Hincapie
2004 Didier Rous
2003 Andy Flickinger
2002 Jeremy Hunt
2001 Nico Mattan
2000 Michele Bartoli

No sprinters!

Jeremy Hunt would like to have a word with you.