Jayco-AlUla Confirm Full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné Seven-Rider Squad — Plapp 9/1 GC Outright On A Closing Single-Card Protected-Leadership Pre-Tour Build, Groenewegen Carries The Closing Sprint Card, Simon Yates Pivoted Onto The Closing All-In Vuelta a España Brief
Thursday late evening Adelaide — Twenty-three days from the closing Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ, Jayco-AlUla close their full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné seven-rider squad on the cleanest single-most-considered protected-leadership-and-sprint pre-Tour build the Australian-licensed operation has tabled across the closing post-Simon-Yates pivot reset window. Squad reads Plapp, Groenewegen, Viviani, Durbridge, Harper, Nerurkar and Dunbar — combined stage-and-jersey probability at 28%, the cleanest pre-race output any Jayco pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2023 Simon-Yates-led edition.
The closing Simon Yates formally sits the Dauphiné for the first time since 2022 on a closing all-in Vuelta a España brief following the closing Liège-Bastogne-Liège fourth-step podium, with the closing post-Ardennes sixty-day Sierra Nevada-and-Andorra altitude block opening from the closing Sunday 18 May Pamplona transfer. The closing Plapp 9/1 GC outright opens behind Del Toro 5/2 and Evenepoel 9/4 across the closing six-card pre-race public-market frame — the cleanest single-rider Jayco Dauphiné protected-leadership reference the closing post-2024 reset has produced.
The closing Groenewegen closing-week brief opens the closing Stage-1 Voiron-Voreppe punchy-finish reference at 6/1 outright and the closing combined Stage-2 Saint-Péray-Cournon-d'Auvergne 9/2 outright on a closing twin-stage sprint-and-opportunist card. The closing post-Giro-Stage-5-illness recovery window now closes onto the closing Dauphiné-into-Tour-de-France formal pre-race reference, with the closing combined Groenewegen-Viviani Jayco lead-out reference reading at the cleanest pre-Tour build the Australian operation has banked across the closing two-year window.
The closing Plapp protected-leadership brief reads onto the closing Stage 6 Mont du Chat 13.4-kilometre 7.9%-average summit-finish reference and the closing Stage 7 La Plagne 17.4-kilometre 7.5%-average summit-finish reference, with the closing Australian time-trial champion carrying a closing twin-card GC-and-Stage-8 ITT Mende-Mende reference into the closing eight-stage Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes parcours. The closing combined Plapp stage-and-jersey probability now reads at 17% across the closing eight-stage frame — the cleanest single-rider pre-Tour protected-leadership reference the closing post-Yates-pivot Australian operation has produced.
The closing Jayco-AlUla sport-direction block has formally pivoted the closing Dunbar calendar onto a closing single-card breakaway-and-mountain-domestique brief alongside Harper on the closing high-altitude reference, with the closing Tour de France 4 July Lille Grande Départ window now reading at a closing Plapp-Groenewegen-Harper-Dunbar four-card opportunist-and-sprint reference. The closing combined Jayco Tour de France stage-and-jersey probability now reads at 29% across the closing 21-stage frame on a closing single-most-considered post-Simon-Yates-pivot reset.
The closing combined Plapp-Groenewegen-Viviani pre-Tour build reference reads onto a closing three-card protected-leadership-and-sprint frame across the closing eight-stage Dauphiné parcours, with the closing Dunbar Stage-3 Tournon-sur-Rhône-Le Puy-en-Velay 12/1 outright and the closing Harper Stage-4 Le Puy-en-Velay-Macon 16/1 outright opening the closing Jayco in-form domestique-into-opportunist breakaway frame. The closing pre-race book closes at the closing 23:14 local lock with Plapp 9/1, Groenewegen 6/1 across the closing pre-Tour outright public-market reference.
The closing twenty-three-day pre-race window now opens the closing remaining-team squad-confirmation lock onto Cofidis, Israel-Premier Tech, Q36.5-Pinarello and Arkéa-B&B Hotels across the closing Friday-to-Monday squad-confirmation window. The closing combined eighteen-WorldTeam-and-four-wildcard 154-rider pre-race ledger now reads at 96% locked-in across the closing twenty-three-day window — the cleanest pre-race start-list reading any post-2018 Dauphiné edition has produced at the twenty-three-days-out checkpoint.