Welcome back to Lentil Rouge Cycling Podcast, presented by Zwift, LR here with Benji

for the Alpacin DeCernic, Formally, Alpacin, Phoenix, Formally, Corridor and Circus, Formally,

Bayobank Corridor and many names. The midseason name changed. The Belgian sponsor, Carousel,

goes around. DeCernic comes over from Quick Step. It sounds like a bit of beef to me,

given what happened in the press, I think, and they're of it Alpacin, who are sort of trying to

become the new Quick Step, at least that's how I see it. And for present purposes to this pod,

we're going to assume the world tour. They said they applied, they announced that in the

Giro maybe, Reste and they made all the other criteria, because I don't think we're kicking out

the shampoo company and a window company from world tour. So they're in a pretty good season,

Benji, like just another really solid season for I, maybe their budget went up a couple of

mil, but it's still a much better season than teams like AT2R or Trek, who probably have

flatter budgets than them. Yeah, and when you keep in mind that 2021, I'm pretty sure we started

shouting great words about this team, 33 victories in 2021. I think much of Liverpool obviously

getting loads of those into the Swiss, to the France, on Mute-Britannia and so forth. And

it really was a good season last year, but they stepped up in terms of victories. They have 34

victories now. I see in that that they have a total of 13 world tour wins and it started kicking

off relatively late, I would say. Actually, I shouldn't say that. It started early with the likes

of Sprintwins, like Melira Tiriano, Philipson at UAE tour, those were early victories, but much

of Liverpool started late because of his injury, right? Because at the start of the year, we were

still like, I don't know whether he could return at the top step after his back injury from

the mountain bike race last year. So it was a slowed return and we saw him gradually move back

into the season and he came back at MSR and it was the kind of MSR return where you're like,

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