'Close to perfection': Evenepoel and Red Bull put down a marker in Challenge Mallorca TTT
The Challenge Mallorca changed things up this year with a decision to turn the opening event, the Trofeo Ses Salines, into a team time trial. With few opportunities for the pros to hone their craft in the discipline ahead of this year's Tour de France, some big names were a bit more focused than normal on the early-season event.
Although it probably should not have come as a surprise that Remco Evenepoel and his new Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team would win the race, it was nonetheless an important marker for the Belgian in his first start with his new squad.
"I think what we did today was close to perfection for this TTT," Evenepoel said after he and six teammates, including fellow Grand Tour specialist Florian Lipowitz, bested Movistar by three seconds with Jayco-AlUla taking third on the day.
