Tom Pidcock is preparing to take on Tadej Pogačar for the Strade Bianche title once again this weekend, and the Briton and his Pinarello-Q36.5 team are leaving nothing to chance in the run-up to the race.
Kurt Bogaerts, team directeur sportif and Pidcock’s coach, has revealed that the 2023 winner is doing double recons of this year’s Strade Bianche route as he prepares to challenge Pogačar on Saturday.
He has been in strong form to start the year, finishing on the podium at the Vuelta a Murcía, the Clásica Jaén, and the Vuelta a Andalucía, also winning a stage at the latter.
“In the final stage of the Ruta del Sol, he showed he’s in good shape. But things haven’t really fallen into place this season. Murcia was shortened, even though he was very good, and things didn’t go his way in the Clasica Jaén either.
He’s undoubtedly among the podium favourites on a start list which also includes Visma-Lease a Bike pairing Wout van Aert and Matteo Jorgenson, EF Education-First leader Ben Healy, and UAE Team Emirates-XRG duo Pogačar and Isaac del Toro.
Pogačar, with three Strade wins to his name, is the top favourite for a fourth triumph, Bogaerts acknowledges.
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