DFL–Cyclingnews–Litespeed
cycling team
Team DFL–Cyclingnews–Litespeed was a British professional cycling team that rode UCI Continental Circuits races.
2007 Season
The team leader for 2007 was Belgian Nico Mattan and the squad included 2006 British champion Hamish Haynes, reigning Finnish National Time Trial champion Matti Helminen and English rider Daniel Lloyd. Eric Vanderaerden was a directeur sportif.
In what was a disappointing season, Lloyd scored the team's best general classification result with his second-place overall finish at the Tour of Qinghai Lake. Cameron Jennings won a stage of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour, Helminen retained the Finnish National Time Trial Championship and Jeremy Vennell was victorious on stages five and six of the Powernet Tour of Southland to give DFL four professional victories for the season.
Mattan in particular had an underwhelming season, his only ranking points of the year coming via a 78th-place finish at Gent–Wevelgem. The former Gent–Wevelgem and two-time Paris-Nice stage winner finished outside the top 2000 in the professional rider rankings and would retire at the end of the season.
Daniel Lloyd was the highest rated member of the squad in 2007, finishing a creditable 329th in the end of season PCS rankings.
Team closure
In 2008 it wanted to become a professional continental team under the name Pedaltech-Cyclingnews and signed Steffen Wesemann and Bas Giling. It also had an agreement with Marc Lotz but Pedaltech signed two British professionals instead.
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