The Chipotle Developme♏nt Team, which has been a staple of the US domestic circuit for years, will focus ꦡon a mostly European racing schedule for the 2012 season.

Team Director Chann McRae said 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Garmin-Cervelo's development squad will live and race out of a team house in Toulouse, France, hitting a full schedule of UCI 2.1 and 2.2 races to better prepare riders for the rigors of the World☂ Tour.

“When you put riders into the World Tour you want them to be 100 percent ready to go because there's no time to really learn once you're there,” McꦆRae said. “All the learning needs to be done at the Continental level.🔴”

So instead of lining up for the US National Race Calendar Redlands Bicycle Classic in California this coming March, the Chipotle boys will toe the line at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Tours.

“Redlan𓄧ds is fun and historically a great race,” McRae said. “But we need our guys in Normandy in the gutter just killing it at mach speed for four hours straight with cr💃ashes left and right, learning how to position and all that stuff. That's something that you don't get at a race like Redlands exactly.”

Beyond pr🥂oviding the international experience for riders, setting up a centrally located house in France is also a more efficient use of team resources, McRae said.

“We targeted the house in a location so that we were around a lot of UCI 2.1 and 2.2 races that were within driving distance,” he said. “In the US, if you're on the NRC circuit🍒, you're flying to 80 percent of the races. And in the US you don't get start money. You're having to find meals for the riders, you're having to book the hotels, sometimes you get home stays, which are awesome. But ꦗin Europe they just give you X amount of start money, hotels, meals, food, and we can drive to all the races.”

McRae said the team has signed 15 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:riders for 2012, but four or five of the US riders will be on rotation with the U23 national team at any given time. “So sometimes they'll be in Lucca, sometimes they'll be in Izegem and sometimes they'll be in Toulouse,” hဣe said.

Danny Summerhill, who 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:rode with the Pro Teamꦯ as a stagiaire for several months at the end of the 2011 seaso🦹n, will be one of the Chipotle riders hoping to benefit from the European immersion by piling up the international results that get the directors' attention.

“I just saw the schedule and it looks pretty exciting,” Summerhill said. “It'll be by far the most Euro racing I've ever had on my plate, so I'm pretty anxious and excited for that. We're not going to prove ourselves to the ProTour team unless we do so. Racing in Europe I think is what it's all about for trying to get a s🐷pot on the big team next year.”

That's exactly the motivation McRae expects will lead to some high-profile res🐻ults against the Europeans on their home turf.

“They all want big results,” McRae sai🙈d of his young team. “Every one of the riders we have on the team has an ambition to get to the World Tour. And they know there's only one way to do that, and that's to prevail and b🍌e on the podium at these races.”

US riders on Chipotle will return for the national championships, which remain a main target for the team, and McRae said there's still a chance fans will see the development squad at other US races. “We'll be where Chipotle wants us to be and where their targeted markets are,”💝 he said. “They give us tremendous support; it's like a dream sponsorship. So if they ask us to be at a race, we're definitely going to represent Chipotle at that race.”