Big Budget = Winning: BMC dominates the first two stages at the 2015 USA Pro Challenge

BMC Racing Team is one of a handful of big budget World Tour professional cycling teams, and the strength of their squad has been on full display at this year's USA Pro Challenge.  BMC has driven the pace, each of the first two stages and have claimed the leaders jersey, two stage wins as well as placing two on the podium.  Teams with a large financial backing doesn't always produce winners, but it certainly has an advantage.  In the case at the Pro Challenge BMC has sent a strong quad for a "home" race as the team is a US registered World Tour team.  Thus far Rohan Dennis has been a one man wrecking crew, either pulling back breaks, setting a blistering tempo at the front of the peloton or being in a break himself.  I would not be surprised if he wins Friday's individual time trial and takes the overall win.  Tinkoff-Saxo is another team well solid financing, and sent some pretty good riders to compete in Colorado.  Racing at altitude sometimes is a wild card that is hard to account for, and even top riders succumb to riding above 10,000 feet and do not preform as well as they would like to.  Team Cannondale-Garmin functions on a much smaller budget and although is based in Boulder, Colorado did not even send the maximum allowed number of riders (they sent 7 instead of 8).  I intend to investigate and find out why Cannondale-Garmin did not fill out their roster.  In stage 2 Nate Brown (Cannondale-Garmin) came within several hundred meters of winning but settled for a podium appearance in winning the most aggressive rider jersey.  Otherwise, the team has been fairly quiet.