Standard Insurance-Navy
Standard Insurance-Navy will parade former champions Ronald Oranza and Jan Paul Morales as it seeks to re-assert its dominance in opposition to a stacked field inside the LBC Ronda Pilipinas tenth anniversary race unfurling on February 23 in Sorsogon and ending on March four in Vigan, Ilocos Sur.
Oranza, the 2018 champion, and Morales, who gained it in 2016 and 2017, and the Navymen have loomed the early favorites to rule the 10th edition of the country’s biggest cycling race as they'll also be bannered by way of steady top 10 finishers El Joshua Carino, George Oconer, Ronald Lomotos, John Mark Camingao and many-time King of the Mountain winner Junrey Navara.Newbie Lance Allen Benito is the 8th and final member of the Navy team that has lorded three of the closing 4 editions of the race staking P1 million to the person champion.
“We will just try and stay up to what is predicted folks, which is to win,” stated Navy train Reinhard Gorantes in Filipino.
Gorantes, but, admits that this yr’s race should be more difficult considering the fact that champion 7Eleven Cliqq-Air21 by using Roadbike Philippines is making a much-awaited return for the reason that winning the group event seven years in the past.
Mark Galedo, the 2012 titlist, will spearhead the team that is also composed of grizzled veterans Marcelo Felipe and Rustom Lim.
Ageless Santy Barnachea, who received the inaugural staging of this race in 2011 and 2015, can even make a comeback as he leads a young people-laden Scratch It squad as well as 2014 winner Reimon Lapaza, who will represent Celeste Cycles-PH-Devel Project Pro Team.
“There are a lot of group this yr who are able to beating us, 7Eleven is certainly one of them,” stated Gorantes.
The other teams becoming a member of this 10-degree race supplied through LBC and supported by the Manny V. Pangilinan Sports Foundation are Go for Gold, Bicycology (Army), Bike Xtreme, Tarlac/Central Luzon, Ilocos Sur, South Luzon/Batangas and Nueva Ecija.
Backing up the race are Versa, 8A Performance, Print2Go, Petron, Green Planet, Bike Xtreme, Standard Insurance, CCN, Lightwater, Prolite, Guerciotti, Black Mamba, Boy Kanin, Vitamin Boost, NLEX/SCTEX, Maynilad, 3Q Sports Event Management Inc., LBC Foundation and PhilCycling.
After the 137-kilometer Stage One, Ronda will resume with a 163km Sorsogon Legazpi Stage Two on Feb. 24, 126.9km Legazpi-Naga Stage Three on Feb. 25, 212.5km Daet-Lucena Stage Four on Feb. 26, and a hundred and fifty five.4km Lucena-Antipolo Stage Five on Feb. 27 before taking a breather the next day.
Ronda will then keep with a 128.9km Lingayen-Lingayen Stage Six on Feb. 29, 171.9km Lingayen-Nueva Ecija Stage Seven on March 1, 177.1km Nueva Ecija-Baguio Stage Eight on March 2, 176.4km Pugo, La Union-Vigan Stage Nine earlier than closing it with a Stage 10 criterium in Vigan on March four.
Standard Insurance-Navy will parade former champions Ronald Oranza and Jan Paul Morales as it seeks to re-assert its dominance in opposition to a stacked field inside the LBC Ronda Pilipinas tenth anniversary race unfurling on February 23 in Sorsogon and ending on March four in Vigan, Ilocos Sur.
Oranza, the 2018 champion, and Morales, who gained it in 2016 and 2017, and the Navymen have loomed the early favorites to rule the 10th edition of the country’s biggest cycling race as they'll also be bannered by way of steady top 10 finishers El Joshua Carino, George Oconer, Ronald Lomotos, John Mark Camingao and many-time King of the Mountain winner Junrey Navara.Newbie Lance Allen Benito is the 8th and final member of the Navy team that has lorded three of the closing 4 editions of the race staking P1 million to the person champion.
“We will just try and stay up to what is predicted folks, which is to win,” stated Navy train Reinhard Gorantes in Filipino.
Gorantes, but, admits that this yr’s race should be more difficult considering the fact that champion 7Eleven Cliqq-Air21 by using Roadbike Philippines is making a much-awaited return for the reason that winning the group event seven years in the past.
Mark Galedo, the 2012 titlist, will spearhead the team that is also composed of grizzled veterans Marcelo Felipe and Rustom Lim.
Ageless Santy Barnachea, who received the inaugural staging of this race in 2011 and 2015, can even make a comeback as he leads a young people-laden Scratch It squad as well as 2014 winner Reimon Lapaza, who will represent Celeste Cycles-PH-Devel Project Pro Team.
“There are a lot of group this yr who are able to beating us, 7Eleven is certainly one of them,” stated Gorantes.
The other teams becoming a member of this 10-degree race supplied through LBC and supported by the Manny V. Pangilinan Sports Foundation are Go for Gold, Bicycology (Army), Bike Xtreme, Tarlac/Central Luzon, Ilocos Sur, South Luzon/Batangas and Nueva Ecija.
Backing up the race are Versa, 8A Performance, Print2Go, Petron, Green Planet, Bike Xtreme, Standard Insurance, CCN, Lightwater, Prolite, Guerciotti, Black Mamba, Boy Kanin, Vitamin Boost, NLEX/SCTEX, Maynilad, 3Q Sports Event Management Inc., LBC Foundation and PhilCycling.
After the 137-kilometer Stage One, Ronda will resume with a 163km Sorsogon Legazpi Stage Two on Feb. 24, 126.9km Legazpi-Naga Stage Three on Feb. 25, 212.5km Daet-Lucena Stage Four on Feb. 26, and a hundred and fifty five.4km Lucena-Antipolo Stage Five on Feb. 27 before taking a breather the next day.
Ronda will then keep with a 128.9km Lingayen-Lingayen Stage Six on Feb. 29, 171.9km Lingayen-Nueva Ecija Stage Seven on March 1, 177.1km Nueva Ecija-Baguio Stage Eight on March 2, 176.4km Pugo, La Union-Vigan Stage Nine earlier than closing it with a Stage 10 criterium in Vigan on March four.
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