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Autumn Classic: Milano - Torino
Well i have no idea who will win this and to be honest i'm playing the game as a bit of fun having not really looked at the course or the weather.
I've picked a standard team of all Italians and my purist is just a guess so we will see what happens.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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Well my cunning plan of having an all Italian standard team didnt work out
Whereas my guess work for the purist did quite canny.
You can't, but I can
One winner today....I came 3rd
1 BRECHIN WIND Cissy Fairfax 191
Can't see the results yet, it's still updating...
Yay! It's up! Thanks!
1,2,3,6,11,15 - plus LR for Blel Kadri. Quite happy with that.
Results are slow in Italy today
1 Diego ULISSI ITA LAM 24 4:21:02
2 Rafal MAJKA POL TST 24 +3
3 Daniel MORENO FERNANDEZ ESP KAT 32 +5
4 Domenico POZZOVIVO ITA ALM 31 +7
5 Alberto Contador Velasco ESP TST 31 +11
6 Alejandro VALVERDE BELMONTE ESP MOV 33 +15
7 Mauro Finetto ITA VIN 28 +15
8 Thomas VOECKLER FRA EUC 34 +15
9 Matthew Rabottini ITA VIN 26 +15
10 Franco PELLIZOTTI ITA AND 35 +15
11 Daniel MARTIN IRL GRS 27 +24
12 Sébastien REICHENBACH SUI IAM 24 +24
13 Patrick FACCHINI ITA AND 25 +24
14 Giampaolo Caruso ITA KAT 33 +24
15 Chris Anker Sörensen DEN TST 29 +24
My purist team beats my standard team for the 4th race in a row.
Blimey - I got 1,3,4,5 but pretty much all of the names above seemed to be in the top 15 - some of you lot will be getting some high scores today!
Do u have the top 20?
1,2,3,4,6,10 for me, I'll get points done in a while
Bah! Well done dude!
1,2,3,10 purist
1,4,10 standard
Standard:
1,2,3,4,14,15
Purist:
1,4,6,12
1 Ulissi
2 Majka
3 Moreno
4 Pozzovivo
5 Contador
6 Valverde
7 Finetto
8 Voeckler
9 Rabottini
10 Pellizotti
1. Ulissi
2. Majka
3. Moreno
Podium for me!
grega bole & bonnaford also DNS
std
Valve
J-Rod
D Mart
Caruso
Pozzovivo
Majka
Aru
Ullisi
Ziliol
Purist
Valve
J Rod
Gasparato
Contador
Pellizotti
Ulissi
Bakelants
Reichenbacher (He's bigger)
Caruso.
I had Moreno in both my teams until this morning and swapped him for Caruso. I am now thinking that was probably an error I could pay dearly for.
I went for the big guns, no idea if they'll be bothered about it or not...
Rodriguez and Moreno
Betancur and Pozzovivo
Contador
Ulissi
Capecchi
And then...
Rebellin and Atapuma in standard
Pardilla and Taborre in purist
Franco Pellizotti
Diego Ulissi
Alberto Contador
Matteo Rabottini
Joaquin Rodriguez
Fabio Taborre
Carlos Alberto Contador
Sébastien Reichanbach
Daniel Moreno
2 in the break
Jay Robert Thomson (MTN)
Bjorn Thurau (Euro)
after 92km, 6mins 50secs
Balls, I had Thomson in this morning but swapped him out for Tiralongo.
Standard
Valverde
JRod
Ulissi
Moreno
Pozzovivo
Atapuma
Pellizotti
Pardilla
Bongiorno
Purist
Valverde
JRod
Ulissi
Moreno
Pozzovivo
Atapuma
Martin
Reichenbach
Meintjes
Standard:
JRod
Pozzovivo
Ulissi
Valverde
Majka
Martin
Tschopp
Rebellin
Cunego
Purist:
Contador
Martin
Visconti
Betancur
Moreno
Aru
C Sorensen
Bono
Bakelants
Standard:
Valverde
Rodriguez
Moreno
Martin
Ulissi
Pardilla
Aru
Bongiorno
Tiralongo
Purist:
Rodriguez
Moreno
Pozzovivo
Betancur
Martin
Visconti
Ulissi
Huzarski
Tiralongo
My team:
Ulissi
J-Rod
Voeckler
A Schleck
Pirazzi
Bakelandts
Martin
Visconti
Rogers
Since I always seem to perform disastrously whenever I give out my team picks, let the above nine be hereby cursed.
Well you cursed Andy so much he is on the DNS list
1 down, 8 to go
Standard
Pozzovivo
Majka
Betancur
Caruso
Moreno
Sorensen
Pirazzi
Ulissi
Atapuma
Purist
Valverde
Rodriquez
Betancur
Pirazzi
Bongiorno
Reichanbach
Pozzovivo
Ulissi
Gasparotto
My Standard team:
Diego Ulissi
Giovanni Visconti
Stefano Pirazzi
Simone Ponzi
Fabio Aru
Franco Pellizotti
Domenico Pozzovivo
Enrico Battaglin
Giampaolo Caruso
Purist;
Joaquin Rodriguez
Daniel Moreno
Rafal Majka
Diego Ulissi
Luka Mezgec
Simone Ponzi
Stefano Pirazzi
Sergio Pardilla Bellon
Bartlomiej Matysiak