Last year, Matthew Brennan burst onto the WorldTour scene when he clinched a second place on the first stage of the Tour Down Under, where with a powerful acceleration in Gumeracha he came close to unseating a celebrating Sam Welsford.
The British rider then went on to have a breakthrough season, winning 12 races including stage victories at the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya and Tour de Romandie.
“I think we just ended up on the wrong side [of the road]. I think there was one little moment of hesitation from us,” Brennan told reporters after the podium ceremony where he received the white best young rider’s jersey.
“Seems to be a bit of a thing now. I think we came off that a little bit disappointed as a team, because we knew we could win it today,” he said.
“But to be honest, I think with the new squad, new group of riders, new kind of way of working together, that we’ve actually done a really good job. There’s a few things that we want to tweak, but throughout the whole day, they were always there, always helping, always protecting, doing what they needed to do. So the guys did a fantastic job.”
“We did a lot of work, but can we be happy with what we did today?” Brennan asked and quickly replied, “I think we can.”
“We’re very aware of what we need to work on now and we’re very confident that we can fix that. So hopefully, once we get…
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