Team Saxo Bank / 2006 season
Team CSC showed its strengths for the first time in the spring classics. Fabian Cancellara won the race through the "Hell of the North" Paris-Roubaix and Fränk Schleck the Ardennes classic Amstel Gold Race .
After winning the Critérium International, Ivan Basso announced that he wanted to win both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in 2006. His team boss, Bjarne Riis, went even further when formulating the goals: In 2006 Team CSC wants to win all three major tours. For the victory at the Vuelta , Riis nominated Carlos Sastre , who finished second in the overall ranking of the Tour of Spain in 2005. And Basso was able to achieve the first goal. With a dominance reminiscent of Lance Armstrong , he won the Giro d'Italia with three stage wins and a lead of more than nine minutes. But then Team CSC's planning was thrown overboard. One day before the Tour de France , Ivan Basso was unloaded from the Tour due to incriminating evidence in the Fuentes doping scandal . The captain Carlos Sastre, originally intended for the Vuelta, should now take the place of Ivan Basso. And he did that as well as he could and ended up in fourth place in the overall ranking. Jens Voigt and Fränk Schleck ensured stage wins. At the Tour of Denmark , Fabian Cancellara celebrated two stage wins in addition to the overall victory.
Then Jens Voigt's great days began. At the Deutschland Tour he won the second stage in the sprint of a breakaway group. On the first mountain stage, Voigt only lost a few seconds to the winner of the day and slipped into the yellow jersey. On the queen's stage with a mountain finish, Voigt once again showed his big fighter heart. Two and a half kilometers from the finish he could no longer keep up with Levi Leipheimer and Andrei Kaschetschkin , but on a flat stretch one kilometer from the finish he fought his way up again and won the stage in the sprint. The next day he underscored his dominance with his sovereign victory in the decisive individual time trial , with which he secured the overall victory in the Germany Tour. Only a few days later he won the oldest German one-day race around the Hainleite and the next day at the Sparkassen Giro Bochum .
At the Vuelta a Espana , the team won the start in the team time trial. Thus, the team underlined that it is the measure of all things in this discipline, after they have already triumphed in the same discipline at the Giro and won the Eindhoven team time trial in Eindhoven . Captain Carlos Sastre had to surrender the gold jersey of the front runner after one day.
At the Road World Championships , two CSC professionals won medals in the individual time trial. Fabian Cancellara won the gold medal for the Swiss national team and David Zabriskie won silver in the USA jersey.
Stuart O'Grady and Kurt Asle Arvesen showed up in the fall classics . O'Grady took second place at the championship in Zurich and was third at Paris – Tours , where Arvesen took second place. With this, the team secured victory in the team classification of the UCI ProTour 2006 ahead of schedule .
successes
Successes in the ProTour
| date | run | driver |
|---|---|---|
| 5. March |
 Paris-Nice prologue
|
 Bobby Julich
|
| March 12th |
 5th stage Tirreno – Adriatico
|
 Fabian Cancellara
|
| 9th April |
Paris – Roubaix
|
Fabian Cancellara
|
| April 16 |
 Amstel Gold Race
|
 Frank Schleck
|
| May 11th |
5th stage Giro d'Italia ( MZF ) |
 CSC
|
| May 14th |
8th stage of the Giro d'Italia
|
Ivan Basso
|
| May 15 |
 1st stage Tour of Catalonia
|
Fabian Cancellara
|
| 23. May |
16th stage of the Giro d'Italia
|
Ivan Basso
|
| May 27th |
20th stage of the Giro d'Italia
|
Ivan Basso
|
| May 6-28 |
Overall ranking Giro d'Italia
|
Ivan Basso
|
| June 4th |
Prologue Dauphiné Libéré
|
David Zabriskie
|
| June 7th |
3rd stage Dauphiné Libéré ( EZF ) |
David Zabriskie
|
| 18th of June |
Team time trial Eindhoven
|
CSC
|
| 15th of July |
13th stage Tour de France
|
 Jens Voigt
|
| July 18th |
15th stage Tour de France
|
Frank Schleck
|
| 3rd August |
2nd stage Germany Tour
|
Jens Voigt
|
| August 7th |
6th stage Germany Tour
|
Jens Voigt
|
| 8th August |
7th stage Germany Tour (EZF) |
Jens Voigt
|
| August 1st to 9th |
Overall ranking Germany Tour
|
Jens Voigt
|
| 26th of August |
1st stage Vuelta a España (MZF) |
CSC
|
Success in the Europe Tour
| date | run | driver |
|---|---|---|
| March 25-26 |
Overall evaluation Critérium International
|
Ivan Basso
|
| 9th April |
Klasika Primavera
|
Carlos Sastre
|
| April 29 |
GP Herning
|
Allan Johansen
|
| May 31st to June 4th |
Overall ranking Tour of Luxembourg
|
Christian Vande Velde
|
| June 16 |
3rd stage of Ster Elektrotoer
|
Jens Voigt
|
| June 14th to 17th |
Overall rating of Ster Elektrotoer
|
 Kurt Asle Arvesen
|
| 3rd August |
2nd stage Paris – Corrèze
|
 Marcus Ljungqvist
|
| 3rd August |
2nd stage Tour of Denmark
|
Fabian Cancellara
|
| 5th of August |
5th stage Tour of Denmark
|
Fabian Cancellara
|
| 2nd to 6th August |
Overall ranking Tour of Denmark
|
Fabian Cancellara
|
| 12. August |
Around the Hainleite
|
Jens Voigt
|
| 13 August |
Sparkassen Giro Bochum
|
Jens Voigt
|
| 29th August |
 1st stage Tour of Britain
|
Martin Pedersen
|
| August 29th to September 3rd |
Overall Tour of Britain
|
Martin Pedersen
|
| September 14th |
2nd stage 3 country tour
|
Karsten Kroon
|
| 16th September |
4th stage 3 country tour
|
 Luke Roberts
|
| 17th of September |
5th stage 3 country tour
|
Karsten Kroon
|
Team 2006
Web links
- Team Saxo Bank / Season 2006 in the database of Radsportseiten.net