Visma-Lease a Bike’s Wout van Aert will work for Matthew Brennan at this week’s Lidl Deutschland Tour, the Belgian Classics master helping the 20-year-old apprentice in the sprints.
The pair will aim to challenge Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek), Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Alexander Kristoff (Uno-X Mobility) and Danny van Poppel (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) during the five-day race in Germany.
Like many teams, Visma-Lease a Bike face a triple programme of racing, with Jonas Vinegaard, Sepp Kuss and Matteo Jorgenson riding the Vuelta a España, starting Saturday, while Olav Kooij leads a team at the Renewi Tour in the Netherlands and Belgium after recovering from illness, which also begins on Wednesday.
Van Aert is using the Deutschland Tour as a key part of his final racing block of the season. After recovering from his Vuelta crash injuries during the winter, Van Aert rode both the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France this year, winning a stage in each. He will also race in Canada in September but then end his season relatively early at the Super 8 Classic in Belgium on September 20.
Brennan has raced less but been incredibly successful so far in 2025, winning 11 races, including the Tour of Norway overall, plus stages at the Volta a Catalunya and Tour de Pologne, and the Rund um Köln.
“Wout will lead out the sprints and share his experience with Matthew. It’s fantastic to see a rider like Wout working in that way with a young talent like Matthew. We’ll see how things unfold in the tougher stages.”
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