FIRST WIN OF THE YEAR

How many WorldTour teams have already scored a victory?

The 2019 season has already been going for over a month, and a dozen of the 18 WorldTour teams had won a race as we went to press. CCC won the very first event in their new colours, with Patrick Bevin taking the New Zealand time trial championships. MitcheltonScott followed at the Australian TT champs four days later with Luke Durbridge. Deceuninck were next, with Elia Viviani winning stage 1 of the Tour Down Under. EF Education First, Dimension Data and Katusha-Alpecin, who all found wins hard to come by in 2018, got off the mark early, but a six-strong list of teams had drawn a duck by the time the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana kicked off on February 6.