AD Renting

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AD Renting
Team data
nationality BelgiumBelgium Belgium
First season 1987
Last season 1989
discipline Street
Wheel manufacturer MBK (1987)
Eddy Merckx (1988)
Bottecchia (1989)
staff
Team manager Wilfried Reybrouck
José De Cauwer
Name story
Years Surname
1987
1988
1989
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AD Renting-W-Cup-Bottecchia

AD Renting was a Belgian professional cycling team that existed from 1987 to 1989. Its main sponsor was a Belgian car rental company owned by the Bruges businessman François Lambert .

Greg Lemond at the 1989 Tour de France

history

The team was founded in 1987 by Wilfried Reybrouck on the basis of the Fangio – Lois team . In the first year only four wins could be achieved. There were also second places at Paris-Roubaix , Le Samyn and Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen .

In 1988 the two monuments Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix could be won as well as the Grote Prijs Briek Schotte , which was Johan Museeuw's first professional victory .

In 1989, Greg Lemond, a driver who had not raced at top level after his hunting accident in 1987, was brought into the team. The sporting bet paid off for the team as well as for Lemond. He won the Tour de France in 1989 with an 8-second lead, the narrowest lead of the winner in the Tour de France, on second-placed Laurent Fignon . At the road world championships in Chambery , Lemond won the world title after a furious end in a sprint of a larger group. At the end of the 1989 season, the team was disbanded.

Successes - road

1987

1988

1989

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1987 1988 1989
Golden jersey Vuelta a España - - 14th
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - 39
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 24 1

Monuments-of-cycling placements

Monument to cycling 1987 1988 1989
Milan – Sanremo 82 45 18th
Tour of Flanders 46 1 9
Paris – Roubaix 2 1 5
Liège – Bastogne – Liège 42 15th 19th
Lombardy tour - - -

Known former drivers

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Denis de Haas: When a helmet decided the tour. In: sport1.de. July 23, 2019, accessed July 19, 2020 .