VELOGAMES Tour de la Provence PREVIEW 2024

Do you dare bet against Mads Pedersen for the win?

*Davide Perisco is no longer riding*

Hey up everybody welcome back to the out recycling YouTube channel where today we’re going to be taking a look at the vames TOA provance it’s only a four stage race then again we are quite used to those because di B was shortened down to four stages but George has very much

Increased the price of mass pson who is the most expensive Rider he’s now 28 credits instead of a 20 that he cost in VI B I think that this is making things a little bit trickier but I do believe that pedon is still worth it at 28

Considering that he could very well win all four stages he was worth it in the at B and he’s very much still worth it here Pon could realistically win all four stages that gets him 600 points he wins the overall GC that’s 300 he gets to points classification that’s 960 you

Know he could quite easily hit a th000 points in the space of four days and therefore I do believe that pedison is still good zler is like a pedison but like a tier Bel below and I think that him being 24 credits is actually what’s making this quite hard is that zlet is

The second favorite he is a decent prologue Rider and he will be able to Sprint as well especially on that well it’s stage two but it’s actually kind of stage three but it’s there’s a prologue of a start zla I do believe is the second favorite and that is reflected in

His price I think it is just it is quite hard to get both of these onto a team without having to then use a load of four credit Riders of which there aren’t that many good ones Bennett is You could argue the fastest Sprint in the race I would probably say pedison is

But I do think that Bennett is still a very good choice there is also got gotat you could go with him as well he is looking very strong we’ll get on to him in a minute Bennett I don’t know I’m always a little bit kind of skeptical about Bennett he sometimes does really

Well but this isn’t you know Green Jersey winning Bennett anymore and also deaon A2 Lal team that’s some don’t have the strongest lead out and they’re not very experienced in it so Bennett’s probably like he he will be good there’s definitely going to be two sprints but you really want somebody

Who’s going to be competitive in the prologue as well I’m not sure if Bennett’s going to be that guy uh Hofer I would rather go with Bennett over Hoffer to be honest with you just because I think Israel have a few other Riders who could be the kind of their

Leader in this race I just also don’t think that hofstead is the fastest Sprinter I think that Bennett is far better Remy roas the terrain does not suit him do not pick Remy roas du Jada will be leading total energies he was good in v b he will need to do a good

Prologue ideally finishing in Cy the top 10 but in theory he is good for about stage two with this slight uphill drag of like 4% to the Finish he will be very strong there probably a top five finisher there and he’ll probably be

Inside a top 10 but is he worth it at 16 credits maybe maybe not uh Fon I would rather go with djada personally so I don’t I would just not go with Fon uh Amaral is also a very strong time TR so should do very good in that prologue to

Start with and therefore just take GC points throughout the rest of the race so he’ll probably finish inside of the top 10 considering that I don’t see him being dropped on the climbs cuz he is a decent climber shampa I don’t think this race particularly suits I would say

Amaral’s a safer Choice godon again they’ve got Bennett here so I just don’t think about godon as being the guy for this team but you never really know because they do have you know Amaral godon gotat Benet you know who they going to go with I don’t really know Spen

Beaston he’ll he’ll do a good prologue but will he just be will he be sprinting as well you know he’s not a fast enough Sprinter in my opinion to be competitive in flat Sprints he’ll be good on that stage two but I don’t see him being competitive outside of two stages but at

12 credits that’s pretty decent Deca do you remember when this guy was at y visman u and he was like the next big Sprinter and now he’s just at ARA B&B hotels and he’s just this complete I don’t know he’s just not that great anymore to be honest with you I would I

Would like to pick him I think that he is probably a top five Sprinter in this race and I’m more than willing to be proven wrong I do think that he could be good in the two flat Sprints and he isn’t a good prologue Rider by the looks

Of his results in the past so probably not Deca but I can understand that you might want him as a sprinter Riley Sheen I think might be slept on a little bit but if this guy’s really good you know we all remember his parur last year where he won very surprisingly and I’ve

Been looking back through his results and actually he’s a pretty decent prologue Rider so I would honestly say like there was a prologue last year where I know it’s kind of like you know it wasn’t the biggest race but he only lost to Mel Ang Lopez who was in flying

Form and that prologue was 5K long but it included like 2K at 6% and Sheen was only like 10 seconds behind Lopez so I think that Sheen could be a pretty decent Rider to be a top 10 candidate um whether he’ll be sprinting as well I

Don’t know he did finish second in that uh Japan Criterium thing that Edward turns won last year the Japan cup so I think that he is still pretty fast Tyler Stites has gone up in price since his free top 10 finishes at the Volta community at valenciana so he’s a pretty

Fast Sprinter he’s also a decent prologue Rider so I think that he could be a good one to be going with but again the fact that he writes a project Echelon racing they’re probably not going to be you know the most experienced team when it comes to these

Sorts of bigger races so Tyler Stites is a little bit of a risky one but he could be a pretty good differential uh costu has been decent in some prologues in the past goat I am a big fan of of this race I you know the number of times

Where Bennett’s been beaten by his lead up man is uh is quite a lot actually and I think that goat has been really good recently he was what was it top five in the GP marz I think he came second behind Matthews at that whatever puncher Sprint that there was

In in Spain a couple of weeks ago so I think got toat in decent form and it wouldn’t surprise me he’s a decent climber too it wouldn’t surprise me if he was in top 10 GC kers I think will honestly also be top 10 GC considering

That he is a decent Pro time trialist so he’ll probably get a decent buffer in the prologue I don’t think he’ll win but he’ll also get assist points for bass pedon more than likely so therefore kers I can’t knock I think that’s a pretty safe Choice Tom van asbook if it’s not

Shen if it’s not Hofer asbook is a decent puncher too and and pretty fast on a flat Sprint too so having that van as block again decent choice Watson they might be going for Matt walls in the flat Sprints I don’t know they might be going for Sven beam I don’t know Watson

I do like CU he is from near where where I live so therefore maybe maybe there’s a bit of bias going into this but I think that Watson’s still a decent choice I do think that he could be top 15 GC because he is yeah he’s just a

Very good all-rounded Rider eight credit Riders you’ve got raal Garcia Pi he used to be the Spanish time trial Champion his Pro performances aren’t great so bear that in mind just because somebody as good as a as a time trialist doesn’t even not doesn’t mean they’re good as a

Prolog rider and equally if somebody is you know not good as a time trialist doesn’t mean that they’re not good as a prolog rider if that makes sense I’m sorry for you English speakers because that probably made absolutely no sense uh Ryan Gibbons he is the South African

Road race and time child Champion recently crowned so therefore he’s a good choice because he also gets the assist points for Mass pedison so I like Gibbons in fact going for pison kers and Gibbons is actually quite a safe Trio to be picking out lohu of course he won a

Stage at at B he’s looking in decent form so definitely nothing against that pick Migel might be the Sprinter project Echelon racing over the Tyler Stites a guy who I mentioned earlier but they might go for Stites in terms of trying to get um bonus seconds and stuff like

That so I’m not sure whether they’ll go for stop for Scott McGill uh Tizer is a good Sprinter for Bengal they also have David perisco whether they might go for him instead I don’t know oh there’s also theier uh Brothers Pierre and Rudy I can’t remember which way around they’re

Sprinting but one of one of them sprinting and the ones leading out so just be sure to double check before you go with either one of those of course you got the two you got dclick and Felina for lead or track they’ll get good assist points no problems with

Those Jamani is a decent time tralis for groupama so he’ll probably go you know maybe top 10 in the prologue and therefore just carry GC points so maybe he’ll get you I don’t know somewhere between 50 and 100 points at the end of a race it’s not great but it’s something

Very similarly for Eddie L’s uh he could be a decent one as well perisco he came top 10 in a few Sprints in the tour of Britain last year which is why I think that he’s not a bad shout so perisco there is also Tizer as I

Mentioned a m a minute ago so uh bear that in mind the guard as well for the assist points just just because um and then Matt walls is probably the most safe six credit Rider I would say just yeah I think your first choice should be Matt walls and then you can get

Increasingly and then it gets increasingly risky from there pretty much for credit Riders varies very little I quite like the look of Lucas bony face just because he’s just got kind of like a cool sounding name but also importantly he was good in a lot of the French national races last year he

Was winning a lot of Sprints he’s like one meter 89 or something like that so if they’re not going for Sandy du jarda in the flat Sprints I do think that bony face could be sneaking some top tens that’s just like a really long that’s like long odds

Though so you know don’t don’t hold me to that ji L as well he finished top 10 in a couple of Sprints at the tour I want to say I think it was like 2021 so it was a few years ago but you know he is a fast Sprinter I don’t know

Whether he’ll be the Sprinter for San Michelle mavic or B uh so we’ll wait and see but lcro is not a bad one and outside of them you could go for heberg just for the assist points on Israel they’ll probably be top five in the team classification so there’s like a couple

Of points to be getting out there and other than that you are simply shooting in the dark you could pick somebody who gets in breaks and be fantastic you could not and you could end up with nothing so it’s quite a tricky competition I think that there’s going

To be very small margins between you know the person who wins and the person who finishes in 100 could literally be like 30 points or something because I think they’ll be relatively similar teams this is my team at the moment I I’m not certain on it I’ve just got

Pedon and zler in here cuz I think they’ll probably both be on the podium event she and got to that as some long shots but I’d be very tempted to swap out zangler and go for somebody like Amaral and then put those 10 points into

Her clock and and you know put in a a Decker or a kers and spread out the points a little bit more but let me know what you’re thinking in the comments down below it’s a little bit of a fiddly competition so let me know if there’s

Any six or four credit riders that I’ve missed out that you think could be pretty decent shouts somebody did comment last time that Burk MOS was going to be a really good six credit Rider and he turned out to be incredibly good so thank you to that person who

Suggested that cuz I got a good 300 points from that so thank you very much so hopefully we can get a bit more of that in the comments section and yeah all I left to say is to stay safe out there and I’ll see you in the next video salute