Top 10 Riders for Your 2024 Tour de France Fantasy Team Under 1 Million Euros

Wout van Aert and Jonas Vingegaard are fit enough to start in the 2024 Tour and that meant that Scorito has decided to increase the budget by one million euros. As a result, you now have 53 million euros to spend.

If you want to include all the top guys, the money will evaporate before your eyes, so you will also have to look at the cheaper men. Will you take the risk with a few notable 500k names?

10. Axel Laurance (1.000.000)

The best sprinter in the world may be wearing the Alpecin-Deceuninck shirt. Jasper Philipsen is again the big favorite for the green jersey this year, but if the Belgian is not there due to a tough hill, there is no man left over.

Then the Belgian formation can still fall back on Axel Laurance. The 23-year-old Frenchman became world champion among the promises in 2023 and won a stage in Catalonia and a stage and the final classification in the Tour of Norway. Laurance is fast, can climb and also scores team points with Philipsen’s performances.

Tour of Norway | Axel Laurance wins queen stage – Thibau Nys has to let go

9. Stephen Williams (750.000)

Stephen Williams is already 28 years old, but only really became known to the general public this season. The Welshman surprisingly won the Flèche Wallonne this year by beating the competition on the Muur van Huy in appalling conditions. Earlier this year he had also won the final classification of the Tour Down Under.

Williams then confirmed his qualities once again with an impressive second place in the third stage of the Tour of Switzerland. Williams can climb, punch and attack and wants to show himself in his first Tour de France.

Walloon Arrow | Stephen Williams wins the tough Flèche Wallonne with a devastating attack on the Wall of Huy

8. Nico Denz (500,000)

An attacker par excellence for 500,000 euros, who won two stages in the Giro d’Italia last year. It almost seems too good to be true, but Nico Denz can really be picked up for the lowest amount this year.

Denz won last year’s Giro in both Rivoli and Cassamo Magnago and then also rode to a top 20 in the Vuelta three times. This year there are still some good results for Denz, but that doesn’t mean much for this strong German.

Tour of Turkey | Denz leads in double battle Bora-hansgrohe after dangerous final

7. Marijn van den Berg (1,000,000)

Jasper Philipsen, Mads Pedersen, Wout van Aert, Dylan Groenewegen. The list of absolute top sprinters in this Tour de France is endless, but of course you can’t take them all. The trick is to also have the best cheap sprinters in your team.

One of those cheap toppers could easily be the Dutch Marijn van den Berg. The 24-year-old sprinter only costs 1 million euros and collected no fewer than 228 points in the Vuelta last year in his first major tour. Don’t think, just click.

Volta Catalunya | Van den Berg wins stage 4

6. Tobias Halland Johannessen (750,000)

Last year, many Scorito players expected something from Torstein Træen, but the Norwegian disappointed enormously and did not actually show up at the front once. Who did that was his teammate Tobias Halland Johannessen.

The 24-year-old climber rode to a top-20 finish five times and finished third behind Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard on stage six. This year he showed his form with a sixth place in the Flèche Wallonne.

Tour of Luxembourg | Johannessen takes the last stage, Hirschi wins the game of seconds

5. Paul Lapeira (500,000)

French riders always do well in their own country and so we have every confidence in 24-year-old Paul Lapeira. If the Frenchman is given space to attack, he could become a true scoring cannon.

Lapeira climbs easily and is also a killer at the finish, as he proved during the second stage of the Tour of the Basque Country. Furthermore, the Decathlon rider won this year’s Classic Loire Atlantique, the Cholet Agglo Tour and finished fifth in the Amstel Gold Race. Moreover, Lapeira became national champion of France the Sunday before the Tour!

French Championship | Paul Lapeira defeats Julien Bernard for national title

4. Ben Healy (750.000)

Ben Healy played an important role for the Scorito players in the 2023 Giro. The Irishman was almost always in the right leading group and also won the eighth stage in Fossombrone. Healy struggled somewhat with his form after that Giro.

Especially last spring, things often didn’t work out for the puncheur. His best result was twelfth place in Strade Bianche, but in June he showed his class again with a stage win in Slovenia. The roof is very high for Healy and 750,000 euros is not a lot of money…

Tour of Slovenia | Ben Healy solos to victory in final stage – Giovanni Aleotti takes overall victory

3. Santiago Buitrago (1,500,000)

The most expensive rider and also the only real classification rider in this list is Santiago Buitrago. So why do we highlight him? The Colombian could well be the surprise of the top 10 this year.

Buitrago showed impressive things during training. In May, for example, he climbed Mount Teide no less than 1.20 minutes faster than Remco Evenepoel. He also showed good things in the Dauphiné, including a fifth place in the final stage. Can Buitrago surprise itself?

Dauphiné | Matteo Jorgenson narrowly misses the final win in the final stage – Primoz Roglic cracks, but wins

2. Maxim van Gils (1,000,000)

The attentive reader still knows Maxim van Gils from the tips from 2023. In last year’s Tour de France, the young Belgian only scored 87 points, but Van Gils’ value has doubled in one year.

That has everything to do with his impressive season. Hill specialist Van Gils finished third in Strade Bianche, seventh in Milan-San Remo, third in the Flèche Wallonne, fourth in Liège-Bastogne-Liège and won Eschborn-Frankfurt. The man from Brasschaat is ready to harvest in France.

Eschborn-Frankfurt | Maxim van Gils has something to celebrate again, this time on a German holiday

1. Dorian Godon (750.000)

Dorian Godon is 28 years old, but has only made things difficult for the top riders, especially in the past two seasons. He won the Brabantse Pijl in 2023 and continued this year with no fewer than two stage victories in the Tour de Romandie.

Godon showed his speed by beating Andrea Vendrame in the first stage and he repeated that trick in the last stage by beating Milan Menten, Alex Aranburu and Simone Consonni, among others. Fast climbers are ideal as stage hijackers for your team!

Tour de Romandie | Dorian Godon wins chaotic final stage – Carlos Rodríguez takes overall victory

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