There is little question that UAE Team Emirates is the primary staff on the planet, as they’ve sat atop the UCI World Rankings since February. But the staff of World Champion, Tour de France, and Giro d’Italia winner Tadej Pogačar apparently broke a document held since 2000 once they received their 76th race with 20 completely different riders.
Juan Sebastian Molano claimed stage 2 of the CRO Race on Wednesday, turning into the twentieth rider of UAE Team Emirates’ 30-rider roster to take pleasure in a victory this 12 months.
According to UAE Team Emirates’ press launch, the earlier document for particular person wins amongst an expert staff was 19, held by Mapei-Quickstep since 2000.
HTC-Colombia received essentially the most victories by a staff in a single 12 months in current reminiscence, with 85 wins in 2009, nevertheless it was received by 16 completely different riders.
This 12 months, 22 of the staff’s wins have come from Pogačar – the world’s no 1 rider since mid-2021 – who started the season by successful Strade Bianche after which received the Volta a Catalunya with 4 stage wins. He continued his victory streak at Liège-Bastogne-Liège after which received the Giro d’Italia by virtually 10 minutes, taking six stage wins alongside the best way.
In the Tour de France, he received the general and 6 levels as effectively earlier than taking a well-deserved break. He got here again with a win within the GP de Montréal earlier than he soloed for nearly 100 kilometres en path to successful the elite males’s street race on the UCI Road World Championships.
Marc Hirschi was the next-most prolific winner with eight together with the San Sebastian Classic thus far, whereas Brandon McNulty received seven together with the opening time trial of the Vuelta a España. Adam Yates received six races, and Juan Ayuso claimed 4.
Three races have been received by Isaac Del Toro, Finn Fisher-Black, Antonio Morgado, Diego Ulissi and Tim Wellens. João Almeida received two, and single-race winners embrace Molano, Nils Politt, Domen Novak, Marc Soler, Pavel Sivakov and Jay Vine.
The staff is way from achieved for the season. Pogačar is scheduled to debut his new rainbow jersey on the Giro dell’Emilia on Saturday and can proceed to compete on the Tre Valli Varesine on October 8 and Il Lombardia on October 12.
