TT1 wraps European sea­son with 5th at Paris-Tours

Team Type 1 - SANOFI rider Laszlo Bodrogi stormed to a fifth place fin­ish at the season-ending Paris-Tours race on Sunday in what was the team’s last race in Europe for the 2011 season.

Team Type 1 - SANOFI gen­eral man­ager Vassili Davidenko said Bodrogi’s fin­ish was a fit­ting cap to a long sea­son of racing.

“Laszlo has been going strong all year, and he has been in his best form of the sea­son in September and October after rid­ing for France at the World Championships in the time trial,” he said. “Today he and Rubens raced their bikes very strongly against a top field of rid­ers. We’re extremely happy and look­ing for­ward to con­tin­ued suc­cess in France and around the world in 2012.”

Team Type 1 - SANOFI founder and CEO Phil Southerland said the team’s final race in Europe is an indi­ca­tor of how the 2012 sea­son will look.

“We’ve worked hard this year to build on our strengths, mov­ing up a divi­sion and expand­ing our ros­ter and sched­ule to include some of the tough­est rac­ing in the world,” Southerland said. “It is our mis­sion to spread a mes­sage of hope for peo­ple affected by dia­betes, and by com­pet­ing at Paris-Tours in France we are effec­tively demon­strat­ing the power of what good dia­betes con­trol can lead to.”