Worst team of a GT winner

[Billie]

Because of the thread about the strongest GT teams made me think about this: Which GT winner had the worst team by his side. Kruijswijk's team was not very good and it cost him today. Others have done it though.

Main line ups I though off were the squads Savoldelli won the Giro with.

2001 Index - Alexia Alluminio: Savoldelli, Lanfranchi, Hamburger, Righi, Manzoni, Andriotto, Serri, Zinetti and Quaranta. Especially cause these guys were more busy waiting for Quaranta than supporting Savoldelli. (Riders in italic abandoned)

2005 Discovery Channel: Savoldelli, Barry, Hesjedal, Bileka, Padrnos, Danielson, Cruz, Mccartney, Joachim.

Can't really recall other awful winning teams from my head.

 

[Red Rick]

Horner had a pretty terrible team didn't he?

 

[phil-i-am]

Seems to me that Popovych and Kiserlovski in particular were a good help for him. The croatian was able to stay for long time with favourites back then.

 

[Billie]

I also remember Cancellara doing loads of work for Horner. He was focusing on climbing back then to prepare for the worlds in Firenze.

 

[Anderis]

Evans was rather alone in mountains in 2011 Tour. He had a decent team for flat and TTT, though.

 

[burning]

Nobody beats LeMond and his great team at 1989 TDF.

 

[Miburo]

Contador his vuelta team of 2014

 

[Valv.Piti]

Re:

Contador his vuelta team of 2014

His 2009 team was way worse.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Contador, 2011 Giro I think
Tosatto, Morkov, Porte, Klostergaard, Navarro, Hernandez, Didier, Gusov. He was always isolated whenever the road went upwards. Only Toso was a useful domestique.

 

[RedheadDane]

Re: Re:

Contador his vuelta team of 2014

His 2009 team was way worse.

I was gonna post that (the 2009 Tour team)...
Surely, a team that actively works against the Captain is pretty darn horrible.

 

[Laplaz]

Contadors 2015 Team wasn't great also...

 

[Alexandre B.]

Re:

Horner had a pretty terrible team didn't he?

Kiserlovski was pretty decent uphill.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Landis's Phonak team: B.Grabsch, R.Hunter, N Jalabert, Perdiguero (crashed out on the day of Landis' collapse), R.Hunter, Merckx (the only one of these I recall seeing), Moerenhout, Moos, Pena

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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Contador, 2011 Giro I think
Tosatto, Morkov, Porte, Klostergaard, Navarro, Hernandez, Didier, Gusov. He was always isolated whenever the road went upwards. Only Toso was a useful domestique.

Considering how great a dom Dani Navarro was in previous years for Alberto, he was really anonymous that year. Was it 2009 or 2010, where Dani dropped everyone but Alberto and Andy on some occasions?

 

[Alexandre B.]

Re: Re:

Contador, 2011 Giro I think
Tosatto, Morkov, Porte, Klostergaard, Navarro, Hernandez, Didier, Gusov. He was always isolated whenever the road went upwards. Only Toso was a useful domestique.

Considering how great a dom Dani Navarro was in previous years for Alberto, he was really anonymous that year. Was it 2009 or 2010, where Dani dropped everyone but Alberto and Andy on some occasions?

Col de la Madeleine 2010.

 

[CheckMyPecs]

Roche when he won the Giro with half his team riding against him. It's one thing to have a bad team, but it's even worse to have a good team playing against you!

 

[carton]

Was just mentioning Salvodelli at the 2005 Giro. Michael Barry was his best domestique. Well, amongst his teammates.

 

[deneb]

Re:

Roche when he won the Giro with half his team riding against him. It's one thing to have a bad team, but it's even worse to have a good team playing against you!

Technically was him riding against the team, that year the leader of the team was Visentini

 

[Carl0880]

Best I recall, Hesjedal's team in that Giro was pretty invisible. Most of the Giro Puritos team did pace setting.

 

[carton]

Re: Re:

Roche when he won the Giro with half his team riding against him. It's one thing to have a bad team, but it's even worse to have a good team playing against you!

Technically was him riding against the team, that year the leader of the team was Visentini

Simoni came close to beating up Cunego in 2004, in a similar situation.

 

[phil-i-am]

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Best I recall, Hesjedal's team in that Giro was pretty invisible. Most of the Giro Puritos team did pace setting.

Without such a massive work that Vandevelde did on Stelvio stage, Hesjedal most likely would not have won that race.

 

[Jaunty Monty]

Stetina was a big help to Hesjedal too. He finished 27th and Vande Velde 22nd on GC which are where you might expect decent mountain domestiques to be placed.

 

[Guybrush]

2010 Vueltas Liquigas, as far i remember Nibali was always alone

 

[Squire]

Re:

2010 Vueltas Liquigas, as far i remember Nibali was always alone

Kreuziger was a monster in that Vuelta.

 

[CheckMyPecs]

Re: Re:

Roche when he won the Giro with half his team riding against him. It's one thing to have a bad team, but it's even worse to have a good team playing against you!

Technically was him riding against the team, that year the leader of the team was Visentini

A team should always support its strongest rider, don't you think?