Star signing Remco Evenepoel made a winning start to his time at Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe as the German team narrowly pipped Movistar to victory at the Trofeo Ses Salines team time trial on Thursday by four seconds.
Benchmarks were set by the likes of Unibet Rose Rockets, Tudor Pro Cycling and Jayco-AlUla on Thursday, but it was the Spanish team who really impressed with a strong team of time trial specialists, beating the Australian team by 13 seconds.
However, despite appearing to fade in the final kilometres of their effort, the German team – led by the world and Olympic time trial champion Evenepoel – had done enough to set a new best time of 23:55 at an average speed of 59.5kph with only one team remaining.
UAE Team Emirates-XRG battled on over the 23.8km course, but they were already 12 seconds down on Red Bull at the halfway point. Then as the final run into Colònia de Sant Jordi arrived, the clock went red, confirming victory for Evenepoel and Co.
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