Update #36: Lortnoc takes a late season win
With the biggest 1-day points of the year on offer with the Worlds, the top 2 spots were taken by the 2 most expensive 2024 riders, meaning there weren't many teams to benefit from the absolute top points. With the weeks running out, time is running out for anyone to challenge Salvarani, so the overall is also worth keeping an eye on.
This Week's Top Scorers
With no teams spending the 5332 it cost to get Pogacar and one team spending the 2843 it cost to get Evenepoel (lone holder Bicycle Boy was 8th on the week), the 12 teams who spent 637 on Ben Healy continue to be happy with his performance after he hauled in another 210 for a podium finish at the Worlds. Lortnoc was one of those 12 teams, and had the best mix of other riders, seeing points pour in thanks to wunderkind Paul Seixas (84, 66), Luke Plapp (62, 20), and Jan Christen (43, 14) among others. DJW finishes only 15 points back in 2nd, without Healy but with the pick of the season Isaac Del Toro taking in 128 more points, and has-been-23-year-old Juan Ayuso showing there's still life in the old dog, pulling in 112 points for his 11 owners, as well as Seixas and Lorenzo Finn (72, 8). adamski101 rounds out the podium with 486 (Healy/Ayuso/Seixas).
This Week's High Movers
DJW moves up to the top spot on this ranking, improving a good-for-end-of-season 8 spots in the overall. There's a three way tie for 2nd between Yellow Knight, greenedge, and Eyeballs Out, all of them Healy owners.
Green Jersey Competition
Depressingly for anyone who's not Salvarani, their team was the only one in the top 5 to score this week, adding another 12 points to a now 80-point buffer over 2nd place. Squire would have to win 2 of the very few remaining weeks with Salvarani scoring fewer than 10 points for there to be a change at the top here.
Top 10 Overall
Salvarani becomes more inevitable by gaining another 128 points on Squire, who in turn gains 31 on SafeBet, making the podium a bit more clear. Things are spread out all the way through the top 5 before being grouped a bit closer in the bottom half of the top 10, but no new teams coming in or out of the top 10 overall.
This week sees a familiar set of late-season races, with the 2.PS Tour de Langkawi and the 2.1 CRO Race covering the stage race side, and the 1.PS Munsterland Giro in Germany and 1.PS Giro Dell'Emilia kicking off the brace of late-season Italian 1-days. And a bit of whiplash with the European Championships taking place mere days after the Worlds.
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