With former professional and Basque local 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Juan Manuel Garate in the car, the team is ho🌟ping h🌳ome ground advantage can assist in its aims for overall victory.
"The first stage passes in front of my house," said Garate. "If my family is at home watching the race, I can see them. You can imagine how special💙 this is for me. I know 90 percent of the roads blind."
Joining Uran in his third stage race of the year after winning a stage and placing third at the Colombia Oro y Paz before tenth at Tirreno–Adriatico are Mike Woods, Hugh Carthy, Nate Brown, Brendan Ca🧜nty, Lawson Craddock and Alex Howes.
"With this group, we are going to the race to try to win the general classi🦩fication," said Garate. "For sure other teams have the same goal, so it will not be easy. We need to pay attention to every single meter."
Across the hilly parcours and narrow twisty roads, Garate added full coℱncentration is required at all times from his riders in the bid for overa💮ll victory.
"This year's Pais Vasco is like old times from three, four years ago – not like the last two years. It has super narrow, twisty and st🌜eꦦep final climbs, especially on the first, second and last stages. The flat time trial on stage four is something new," he said of the 19.4 kilometre test against the clock.
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"There's one stage that they say is for the sprinters, but with really narrow and﷽ open roads in the last kilometer, there can be high tension in the bunch, so maybe the bunch is broken at the end. There's not one single day that is🧸 easy, It's going to be a high-intensity race mentally and physically.
Adding to the complexity of the race and predicting the outcomes of the stages are the multiple objectives of tꦛeams and riders. The race is tradiꦚtionally a warm-up event for the Ardennes classics and as a result, Garate is expecting a peloton of inform and motivated riders.
"The🦩 guys that are racing the Ardennes, sometimes they use Pais Vasco to prepare themselves," said Garate. "The guys that are finishing the first part of their season, they come to Pais Vasco to race. And the guys that are growing towards the Giro, they come here, too. This m🌠eans the race has a really high level with 80-90 percent of the bunch in really good condition. You have that and then you have the roads – not a single meter of flat here in Pais Vasco. That's why this week is so hard.
Briton 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Hugh Carthy will be a key rider for Uran in the hilly finales and fresh from his best WorldTour stage race to꧙ date, 13th at Volta a Catalunya, is aiming for another high-class performance.
"I'm feeling good again going into Pais Vasco. I took some good rest this week to recover from a hard week in Catalunya," said Carthy. "Pais Vasco is a beautiful race for strong, gutsy riders. The fans 🧔in Northern Spain adore the race and the smaller roads, steep climbs and bad weather always provide a spectacle.
"The last stage to Arrate has become iconic over the years. The final stage is always exciting at the end of a🦋 tough week, so to climb over such hard terrain on the final day will really showcase a true winner."
The ▨first stage of the 2018 Vuelta al Pais Vasco is a 162.1km day in the saddle from to Zarautz to Zarautz. The race concludes with the 122.2km Eibar to Arrate stage 6.
EF Education First-Drapac for Vuelta al Pais Vasco: Nate Brown, Bre♊ndan Canty, Hugh Carthy, Lawson Craddock, Alex Howes, Rigoberto Uran and Mike Woods.
