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Rock Racing
Rock Racing (UCI Code: RR) was a cycling team founded in 2007 by Michael Ball. The team is affiliated with Ball's Rock & Republic clothing line. Rock Racing received media attention for hiring outcasts in the sport, including those tainted by performance-enhancing drug scandals. The team's "bad boy image" was furthered by the design of the team kits, and its motto was "Here to stay" which may have served to incite the anti-doping efforts of the time.
The team rides De Rosa and branded the DeRosa logo across some versions of their 2008 kits. Ball hoped his expertise in brand marketing will sell merchandise linked to the team. Other product sponsorships for 2008 included Stella Azzurra parts, LAS Helmets, and Campagnolo components. The team's support vehicles were black Cadillac SUVs.
After failing to secure a UCI Professional Continental license for 2010, the team brought in the government of the Spanish autonomous community of Murcia (who previously sponsored the now-defunct Contentpolis-Ampo) as a co-title sponsor. Although they planned to seek UCI Continental registration under a Mexican license, and signed Floyd Landis to their roster. On 3 March 2010 it was announced that Rock Racing would not be awarded a professional licence of any form and as a result would race as an amateur team in the 2010 season: Landis had a clause in his contract allowing him to leave the team in the case of their not being granted professional status.
After Floyd Landis was signed by the team he visited Ball's house wired by the FDA. The evidence found led to a search of Ball's residence.
Directed by Frankie Andreu, with eleven riders with an average age of 28, the team included Rahsaan Bahati, Mariano Friedick, Kayle Leogrande, David Clinger, and Jeremiah Wiscovitch, Rock Racing scored inaugural season victories at The CSC Invitational, The Chevron Manhattan Beach Grand Prix, and Best Sprinter Competition at The Redlands Bicycle Classic. Other results include a stage win at The Valley of the Sun Stage Race, and four stage wins at Wisconsin's Superweek.
Directed by Mariano Friedick, and comprising 21 riders with an average age of 29, Rock Racing had to "come out of the gate swinging" being the center of a controversy before the 2008 Amgen Tour of California when newly signed racers, Santiago Botero, Tyler Hamilton and Óscar Sevilla were not allowed to start due to the race organizers' policy banning convicted abusers of performance-enhancing drugs. Rock Racing's five remaining riders finished the seven-day race and scored seven top-10 finishes, including Cipollini's third in Sacramento on Stage 2. Ball had hired Mario Cipollini in early 2008 to race and replace Andreu as Director Sportif. On the eve of Milan–San Remo, which he won in 2002 only a few months before his first retirement, he announced he was going back into retirement.
In April 2008, Rock Racing sued the Tour de Georgia regarding a berth in the race. A separate team withdrew, which opened a spot, avoiding legal action. The team scored four top-five finishes and placed Sevilla sixth overall. Also that month, an online poll by Bicycling Magazine showed that an overwhelming majority would be "rooting for" Rock Racing over other teams, some of which being the biggest in the sport.
Major victories for 2008 included a team sweep in the prologue of June's Vuelta a Colombia, on the way to a Stage 7 victory by Víctor Hugo Peña, and Stage 9 victory by Óscar Sevilla, who also won Commerce Bank Reading Classic earlier that month. Of note, Sevilla also became the first non-Colombian in 48 years to win that nation's nine-day RCN Classic in October. Tyler Hamilton won both the Tour of Qinghai Lake in July, and the USPRO Road Race Championship in September. Rahsaan Bahati's USPRO Criterium Championship victory gave the team both the Road Race and Criterium National Champions for the United States. Bahati also won other major events such as Athens Twilight Criterium, Chevron Manhattan Beach Grand Prix, the Millikan Memorial Crit, as well as two stage wins during Wisconsin's Superweek on the way to becoming the second best sprinter in that series. During Santiago Botero's final season abroad he bookended his long career, by winning Stage 1 and placing 1st on the Final GC of Redlands Bicycle Classic. In a season of "firsts" for Botero, he also won the opening day of both Cascade Cycling Classic, and his native Vuelta a Colombia, which he won overall in 2007. Notably, he also finished 7th in the Elite Men's Road Race at the Beijing Summer Olympics. Fred Rodriguez had a 3rd place, podium finish at the Philadelphia International Championship.
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Rock Racing
Rock Racing (UCI Code: RR) was a cycling team founded in 2007 by Michael Ball. The team is affiliated with Ball's Rock & Republic clothing line. Rock Racing received media attention for hiring outcasts in the sport, including those tainted by performance-enhancing drug scandals. The team's "bad boy image" was furthered by the design of the team kits, and its motto was "Here to stay" which may have served to incite the anti-doping efforts of the time.
The team rides De Rosa and branded the DeRosa logo across some versions of their 2008 kits. Ball hoped his expertise in brand marketing will sell merchandise linked to the team. Other product sponsorships for 2008 included Stella Azzurra parts, LAS Helmets, and Campagnolo components. The team's support vehicles were black Cadillac SUVs.
After failing to secure a UCI Professional Continental license for 2010, the team brought in the government of the Spanish autonomous community of Murcia (who previously sponsored the now-defunct Contentpolis-Ampo) as a co-title sponsor. Although they planned to seek UCI Continental registration under a Mexican license, and signed Floyd Landis to their roster. On 3 March 2010 it was announced that Rock Racing would not be awarded a professional licence of any form and as a result would race as an amateur team in the 2010 season: Landis had a clause in his contract allowing him to leave the team in the case of their not being granted professional status.
After Floyd Landis was signed by the team he visited Ball's house wired by the FDA. The evidence found led to a search of Ball's residence.
Directed by Frankie Andreu, with eleven riders with an average age of 28, the team included Rahsaan Bahati, Mariano Friedick, Kayle Leogrande, David Clinger, and Jeremiah Wiscovitch, Rock Racing scored inaugural season victories at The CSC Invitational, The Chevron Manhattan Beach Grand Prix, and Best Sprinter Competition at The Redlands Bicycle Classic. Other results include a stage win at The Valley of the Sun Stage Race, and four stage wins at Wisconsin's Superweek.
Directed by Mariano Friedick, and comprising 21 riders with an average age of 29, Rock Racing had to "come out of the gate swinging" being the center of a controversy before the 2008 Amgen Tour of California when newly signed racers, Santiago Botero, Tyler Hamilton and Óscar Sevilla were not allowed to start due to the race organizers' policy banning convicted abusers of performance-enhancing drugs. Rock Racing's five remaining riders finished the seven-day race and scored seven top-10 finishes, including Cipollini's third in Sacramento on Stage 2. Ball had hired Mario Cipollini in early 2008 to race and replace Andreu as Director Sportif. On the eve of Milan–San Remo, which he won in 2002 only a few months before his first retirement, he announced he was going back into retirement.
In April 2008, Rock Racing sued the Tour de Georgia regarding a berth in the race. A separate team withdrew, which opened a spot, avoiding legal action. The team scored four top-five finishes and placed Sevilla sixth overall. Also that month, an online poll by Bicycling Magazine showed that an overwhelming majority would be "rooting for" Rock Racing over other teams, some of which being the biggest in the sport.
Major victories for 2008 included a team sweep in the prologue of June's Vuelta a Colombia, on the way to a Stage 7 victory by Víctor Hugo Peña, and Stage 9 victory by Óscar Sevilla, who also won Commerce Bank Reading Classic earlier that month. Of note, Sevilla also became the first non-Colombian in 48 years to win that nation's nine-day RCN Classic in October. Tyler Hamilton won both the Tour of Qinghai Lake in July, and the USPRO Road Race Championship in September. Rahsaan Bahati's USPRO Criterium Championship victory gave the team both the Road Race and Criterium National Champions for the United States. Bahati also won other major events such as Athens Twilight Criterium, Chevron Manhattan Beach Grand Prix, the Millikan Memorial Crit, as well as two stage wins during Wisconsin's Superweek on the way to becoming the second best sprinter in that series. During Santiago Botero's final season abroad he bookended his long career, by winning Stage 1 and placing 1st on the Final GC of Redlands Bicycle Classic. In a season of "firsts" for Botero, he also won the opening day of both Cascade Cycling Classic, and his native Vuelta a Colombia, which he won overall in 2007. Notably, he also finished 7th in the Elite Men's Road Race at the Beijing Summer Olympics. Fred Rodriguez had a 3rd place, podium finish at the Philadelphia International Championship.