Castorama (cycling team)
| Castorama | |
| Team data | |
| UCI code | CAS |
| nationality |
 France
|
| First season | 1986 |
| Last season | 1995 |
| discipline | Street |
| Wheel manufacturer | 1986-1988 Gitane 1989-1991 Raleigh |
| staff | |
| General manager |
Cyrille Guimard
|
| Team manager |
Bernard quilting
|
| Sportl. ladder |
Jacques Cadicou
|
| Name story | |
| Years | Surname |
| 1986–1988 1989 1990 1991 1992–1995 |
Système U Super U-Raleigh-Fiat Castorama Castorama-Raleigh Castorama |
Castorama (formerly: Système U ) is a former French cycling team . It existed from 1986 to 1995, was sponsored by the French supermarket chain Système U until 1989 and then by the DIY chain Castorama .
organization
The team emerged from the Gitane-Campagnolo team, led by the former cyclist Cyrille Guimard since 1976 , which became the Renault team in 1978 after the car manufacturer Renault bought the wheel manufacturer Gitane and took over the team sponsorship.
After Renault gave up sponsorship in 1984, Guimard and two-time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon , who was one of his active racing drivers, founded the sports club France Compétition and the Maxi-Sports Promotion company as the legal basis for the team. This management concept was considered innovative at the time, as Guimard and Fignon thereby founded an operating company that maintained contractual relationships with sponsors and staff. Until then, the staff were often employed directly by the main sponsor and the team was entirely dependent on the sponsor. They won Systems U for this new concept. This company sponsored the team for the first three years with an amount of 45 million francs. In 1990 Castorama followed as a new sponsor.
The team continued to ride Gitane bikes for the first two years and Raleigh bikes until 1991, and then Cyrille Guimard bikes .
Guimard was the team's general manager.
history
In 1986 Laurent Fignon won the Walloon Arrow . Thierry Marie won the prologue of the 1986 Tour de France . Marie wore the yellow jersey for several days and the team won the team time trial. The best place in the overall ranking was finally achieved by the French champion Yvon Madiot in tenth. Charly Mottet was particularly successful for the team in 1987. He won the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and wore the yellow jersey of the Tour de France for several days, which he finished fourth in the overall standings. The team was able to win the team classification of the Tour de France . Mottet also won the individual time trial Grand Prix des Nations at the end of the season . In 1988 Laurent Fignon won Milan – Sanremo and the Tour de l'Avenir stage race . Mottet won the Tour of Lombardy . In 1989 the team was renamed Super U-Raleigh-Fiat . Gitane got out as a sponsor and Raleigh took the place of the materials sponsor . Laurent Fignon was able to win Milan-Sanremo again this year. Added to this was the overall victory of the Giro d'Italia in 1989 and the historically close second place in the overall classification of the 1989 Tour de France . Fignon left the team in 1992. Jacky Durand achieved one of his greatest successes for the team in the same year when he won the Tour of Flanders .
The team’s best-known drivers besides the above included Laurent Brochard , Luc Leblanc and Bjarne Riis .
Successes (selection)
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French road championships 1986, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994
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French time trial championships 1995
- Critérium International 1990
- Milan – Sanremo 1988, 1989
- Tour of Flanders 1992
- Walloon arrow 1986
- Four days from Dunkirk 1993
- Giro d'Italia 1989
- Critérium du Dauphiné 1987
- Clásica San Sebastián 1994
- Grand Prix Ouest France 1986
- Tour de l'Avenir 1988
- GP Eddy Merckx 1986
- GP des Nations 1987, 1988, 1989
- Tour of Lombardy 1988
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laurent Fignon: We were young and carefree, 2010, p. 189 ff
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