Chris Horner has opinions. This week, a news story he read on Cyclingnews caused the retired Grand Tour champion to sound off on his YouTube channel about former Soudal-QuickStep team manager Patrick Lefevere, saying he was a “knucklehead” who had wasted seven years in the development of Remco Evenepoel, now with rival outfit Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe.
Horner was humoured by Lefevere’s grudge against Red Bull’s team boss Ralph Denk for buying out the Belgian’s contract early before his Soudal-QuickStep contract expired. He referred to the Cyclingnews story on Lefevere’s comments from a Radio Peloton podcast that he “filed a complaint with the UCI” about Denk and summed up his feelings towards the Red Bull manager with a succinct “I hate him.”
The long-winded Horner recounted several instances from 2024, at the Tour de France and the elite men’s road race at the Zürich Worlds, where he thought Evenepoel had not received sufficient grounding on how to challenge Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), the Slovenian winning both events. He was quick to point out that Lefevere boasted that he ‘found’ Evenepoel, but across seven years was seemingly not able to develop his racing skills properly.
Both Horner and Evenepoel have something in common, they both won the Vuelta a España. But in seven years with Soudal-QuickStep, there was just one Grand Tour victory for the young Belgian, and he departed for Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe in pursuit of a Tour de France GC title, in particular.
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