On the second race day of the season, after having dominated the team time trial with a record average, the Flemish rider from Red Bull-Bora triumphs and demonstrates that he is already in excellent condition. Scaroni third
Remco Evenepoel is like that: he doesn’t like normal things. On Thursday in Mallorca he had dragged his new teammates from Red Bull-Bora Hasngrohe (including the Italians Finn, Moscon and Cattaneo) to victory in the team time trial of the Challenge Mallorca, moreover with the record average in a test of this type: 59.7 km/h over 23 km. Today in the Serra Tramuntana Trophy, the third round of the race held on the Spanish island (it is not mandatory to run them all), the Flemish wanted to give everyone a demonstration of strength. So first he attacked 56 kilometers from the finish line to make the selection, and then he went downhill 49 km from the finish. He left Antonio Morgado (UAE Team Emirates-Xrg) and Christian Scaroni (XDS Astana), winner of the Classica Camp de Morvedre last Friday, at 1’38”; Andrea Vendrame 5th at 1’44”.
his words
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“I’m very happy with this second victory, it’s great to start like this with the new team – said Evenepoel, 26 years old, at the finish line -. It was a beautiful day and I’m happy to have put into practice the plan we discussed in the morning. It’s really good for morale and gives great motivation to the team and to myself. Things seem to be going well for the future, let’s hope we can continue like this”.
plan
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Evenepoel is expected tomorrow at the Andratx-Pollença Trophy, again in Mallorca, then from 4 to 8 February at the Vuelta Valenciana; finally on February 16th here is the UAE Tour in the United Arab Emirates, where there will be the first clash with Jonas Vingegaard. Certainly, in the first two days of his 2026 with the new team he made it clear that the path towards the challenge at Pogacar (at Liège and then at the Tour de France) is the right one.
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