The Alberto Contador Foundation will manage the new Trek-Segafredo development team, a continental squad that will be sponsored by Polartec and Kometa.
The Polartec Junior Team offered a great cycling exhibition in the Vuelta a Valladolid, which ended on Sunday the 23rd, the same day as the Tour de France. A team directed by Guillermo Gutiérrez and composed of Marc Brustenga, Joan Martí Bennassar, David Cabezas, Carlos Garcia, Sergio Garcia and Hugo Sampedro dominated the race from the first to the last day
Marc Brustenga, with a spectacular victory in the prologue of the Ain Bugey Tour, inaugurated a great week of the Polartec Junior Team in French lands. The team also added a seventh place in the final general classification of Carlos Garcia, who has managed to rub shoulders with the best promises of the European peloton.
Junior freshman, but with very good results, Davide Bomboi will be the next guest of the Alberto Contador Foundation to run in the Polartec Junior team, which every year usually brings some Belgian riders to Spain to know the Spanish cycling,
The Polartec Junior team culminated its participation in the Vuelta al Besaya with an excellent victory in the team time trial played on the second race day, in which imposed its potential against all rivals.
Nor was today a bad day for the juniors of the Polartec, who ran in Cantabria the Jose Luis Junco Memorial. Hugo Sampedro, one of the best climbers on the team, was only 8 seconds behind the winner of this event
The Polartec Junior directed by Félix García Casas returned from their trip to French lands with a bittersweet balance, as most of the six riders who traveled to the Tour des Portes du Pays d’Othe suffered hard crashes that prevented them from performing at their usual level
The weekend was completed with the podiums of Hugo Sampedro and Carlos Garcia in the Federation Trophy, a tough race in which only the Basque Unai Iribar could pass the two riders of Polartec in the final sprint
Marc Brustenga, having achieved the victory in the second stage of the Vuelta a Asturias, was the last rider of the Polartec Junior to climb to the podium this season, waiting for the next important appointments
Joan Martí Bennassar managed to be proclaimed for the second year in a row champion of Spain of individual pursuit with an excellent time, 3:28, after having been also in his first junior year and after having started on the track being champion of Spain Cadet by teams
