Remco Evenepoel is determined to continue his run of aggressive racing and early-season success with Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe at this week’s Volta Comunitat Valenciana before heading to the UAE Tour for his first WorldTour showdown of 2026.
With a 100% strike rate and three victories at the Challenge Mallorca, Evenepoel enjoyed a perfect debut with Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe as they made their racing debut. The German super-team also won the Trofeo Palma thanks to Arne Marit to win four out of five of the Challenge Mallorca races.
Evenepoel was the driving force in the Trofeo Ses Salines team time trial victory and then attacked on the climbs to win alone in the Trofeo Serra Tramuntana and the Trofeo Andratx-Pollença on Friday and Saturday.
Evenepoel used the racing to work on and calibrate his five-minute threshold fitness, an area that new coach Dan Lorang can lead to improvements in his ability to take on the likes of Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) later in the season.
Evenepoel will be joined by Giulio Pellizzari in the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe line-up, with Mads Pedersen and Tao Geoghegan Hart…
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