With the Giro completed, a quick look at the weekly UCI rankings and the World Tour promotion and relegation race as the points for the Giro have been added.Relegation-facing Astana and Arka-B&B have started scoring more but their problem is their rivals have too.Relegation reminderIts a three year process between 2023-2025 based on the sum of each teams rankings for each season. The top-18 teams qualify for a World Tour place, a World Tour team below 18th place faces relegation.Riders score UCI points with race results and a teams ranking is based on the total of its 20 best scorers. The in the chart below red line signifies the promotion-relegation barrier. The raw data is at uci.ch.Lotto-Dstny and Israel-PremierTech are on course for promotion with both sitting well above 18th place. All the second tier ProTeams have the coral-tone bar for 2023.Arka-B&B Hotels and Astana are still below the red line. Astana are still well behind but theyve started scoring more and have taken over 1,000 points in the last five weeks. That still leaves them trailing and its probably not momentum that theyll keep. Besides as good as recent times have been for them, Uno-X has now overtaken them to move up to 20th which shows this is always a dynamic contest.Arka-B&B have been scoring of late too but their problem is that DSM Firmenich have too with the Dutch squad hauling over 2,000 points in the last few weeks. It all means Arka are about 1,250 points short of 18th placed DSM Firmenich and Astana 2,500 points behind.Theres a mini-peloton of teams jostling above the red line and there are about 2,000 points between Jayco-Al Ula at the top of this section and DSM-Firmenich right now, or just one good months results. But theyre all more comfortable for now because Arka-B&B are still 1,250 points below DSM Firmenich, theres a gap there. Still management at Cofidis and Intermarch will be worried that the Dutch team overtake them and theyre the ones sitting on the frontier.Finally reminder that relegation isnt ruinous. Just ask Lotto-Dstny. As in the event of relegation the two best teams on the rankings would get invites to the grand tours and this means Arka and Astana. For the big one day races the best three are invited so Uno-X get included here. As long as a team faces the drop with a plan and can retain riders then it can still prosper but easier said than done. Teams get demoted because of poor performance, it can be harder to recruit, sponsors crave the security of the World Tour and so on.ConclusionTheres still a year and a half to go so we cant make definitive calls. Still for Astana were left reaching into the sack of sporting metaphors and pulling out phrases like a mountain to climb. Arka dont have it easy either.For all the tables, points and charts theres also just the sense check here where these two teams just are not appearing the headlines or even the moves enough to get results. Without looking you can probably tell they are having a tough time of things.The post World Tour Promotion-Relegation Rankings first appeared on The Inner Ring.