Teams & Riders The Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe team thread

[Berniece]

"Trying to understand where they stand as riders" – Red Bull's challenge balancing GC hopes of Roglic, Evenepoel, Lipowitz, Pellizzari, Martinez, Hindley & Vlasov in 2026

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe’s new team manager Zak Dempster has opened up on the scale of the challenge facing him in 2026: managing a roster so deep in Grand Tour potential that internal competition...

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Here is a thought, you only need to add one more, and you got yourself a Tour team. Anyway, nice to see Zak still mentioning Rogla, Sven was rather reluctant to do so.

He is specifically saying he wants to take a co-leader approach with those names. Do you think it makes sense to have 7 co-leaders in a single GT? Would that work?

 

[RedheadDane]

Do you think it makes sense to have 7 co-leaders in a single GT? Would that work?

Too conservative. All 8 should be co-leaders for max chaos.

 

[CyclistAbi]

He is specifically saying he wants to take a co-leader approach with those names. Do you think it makes sense to have 7 co-leaders in a single GT? Would that work?

If they don't take their best to the Tour 2026 then i must say i am not all that optimistic about their chances against UAE and Visma in general. As for having more freedom, they can do that at Giro and Vuelta.

If they take all their best then i will consider this to be bare minimum, for calling RBH an AAA team, otherwise i am not sure what their expectations are, then better to send a sprinter and bunch of kids to the Tour.

 

[Berniece]

If they don't take their best to the Tour 2026 then i must say i am not all that optimistic about their chances against UAE and Visma in general. As for having more freedom, they can do that at Giro and Vuelta.

I don’t think it makes any sense to bring those 7 to the TDF

 

[CyclistAbi]

I don’t think it makes any sense to bring those 7 to the TDF

Of course it does.

 

[AlfaLum]

Would me plain stupid to sent all 7 to the Tour and they are never going to do that. At least 2 out of Evenepoel, Roglic, Hindley, Pellizarri and Lipowitz will go to the giro. I am expecting Roglic/Hindley with Pellizarri.

DFM and Vlasov will have to do a couple of very good first months to the season or they will just be domestiques.

 

[Berniece]

Of course it does.

How so? Please explain that tactic to me in for example flat stages with a lot of wind?

 

[peterfin]

How so? Please explain that tactic to me in for example flat stages with a lot of wind?

They make an echelon and do another TTT with Remco doing 50% of the work and the others giving him just enough time to recover. Total carnage.