UAE Staff Emirates added one other two victories to their season whole throughout Saturday’s racing motion, with Juan Ayuso scoring his fourth win of the yr within the Tour de Luxembourg stage 4 time trial and Filippo Baroncini soloing to his debut professional win on the Tremendous 8 Traditional.
The pair of wins took the crew’s whole within the seasons to a staggering 75, and Baroncini’s triumph took the variety of riders on the crew who’ve gained a race to 19.
Sure, virtually two-thirds of all the UAE Staff Emirates 30-man squad have tasted victory this season, a quantity which has equalled the long-standing file set by Mapei-QuickStep again in 2000.
The crew could, essentially the most richly assembled within the present professional peloton, can rely up 22 wins from famous person chief Tadej Pogačar, a complete past the attain of most full skilled groups to date this yr.
Mendacity between his season-opening win at Strade Bianche and his most up-to-date victory on the GP Montréal, the 26-year-old has crammed in wins on the Volta a Catalunya, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the GIro d’Italia and the Tour de France, in addition to 12 levels throughout the 2 Grand Excursions.
Solely 11 squads, UAE included, have reached that mark, with Ineos Grenadiers, Bahrain Victorious and Lotto-Dstny among the many notable groups who’ve racked up fewer wins than the Slovenian in 2024.
Elsewhere, the crew can look to the departing Marc Hirschi (eight wins), Brandon McNulty (seven wins), Adam Yates (six wins) and Ayuso (4 wins) as key riders who’ve bolstered their win whole.
If that landmark of 19 completely different race winners wasn’t sufficient, UAE Staff Emirates have additionally gained essentially the most races of any crew since 2009. Their 75 stands above the QuickStep squads of 2018 (73) and 2019 (70), however they nonetheless have some strategy to go to match the excessive watermark of Columbia-HTC 15 years in the past.
Again then, the sprinting stardom of Mark Cavendish and André Greipel, in addition to the versatile up-and-comer Edvald Boasson Hagen, propelled the US squad to an enormous 85 wins.
After all, there are not any star sprinters on the UAE squad, one thing which makes their present achievements much more spectacular.
The crew’s Colombian dash pairing Juan Sebastián Molano and Alvaro Hodeg are literally among the many 11 males who’ve but to file a win this season, with UAE’s victories coming completely within the mountains, hills and time trials.
Along with Molano and Hodeg, the opposite choose few UAE Staff Emirates males but to style victory this season embrace Rafał Majka, Mikkel Bjerg, Igor Arrieta, Sjoerd Bax, Alessandro Covi, Vegard Stake Laengen, Ivo Oliveira, Rui Oliveira, and Michael Vink.
Time will inform if any of those riders take the riders with wins whole past 19 and past Mapei. However, with Pogačar filling out the rest of his yr with the Highway World Championships and Il Lombardia, amongst different races, it is unlikely their season win whole will stick at 75.
