{"id":1715345,"date":"2026-01-30T07:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1715345"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:57:33","slug":"remco-evenepoel-sets-the-tone-on-his-red-bull-era-with-ridiculous-solo-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1715345","title":{"rendered":"Remco Evenepoel Sets the Tone on His Red Bull Era with Ridiculous Solo Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Team time trial victory on day 1 with Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe clearly wasn\u2019t enough for Remco Evenepoel.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, Evenepoel won Mallorca\u2019s Trofeo Serra Tramuntana all by himself after spending 50km off the front, alone.<\/p>\n

Evenepoel\u2019s first road racing victory for his new squad was quite the statement as he got the wheels turning on the new chapter of his superstar career.<\/p>\n

A massive super team makeover in the winter after his multi-million exit from Quick-Step clearly did him no harm at all.<\/p>\n

His Tour de France rivals Tadej Poga\u010dar and Jonas Vingegaard should consider themselves warned.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always good to win early after training for a few months,\u201d Evenepoel told Cycling Pro Net<\/em> at the finish. \u201cI always like to win early in the season to feel good in the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s victory was Evenpoel\u2019s first on the road bike since last September at the Tour of Britain. His European and world time trial titles arrived after that.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter last year, it\u2019s good to win a road race \u2013 it took me quite some time,\u201d Evenepoel said at the finish on Friday. \u201cI\u2019m happy I can open the account \u2013 it shows we did some good work in the winter.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Statement. Made. \ud83d\ude2e\u200d\ud83d\udca8<\/p>\n

The perfect start for Remco Evenepoel as he wins his second race in as many days for Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe. pic.twitter.com\/5TvPAhKBN7<\/p>\n

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A new downhill move for Evenepoel<\/h2>\n

And like it was a new jersey for Evenepoel on Friday, the victory was a new twist on \u201cThe Remco Winning Formula.\u201d<\/p>\n

Belgium\u2019s aero bullet attacked out of a Red Bull train on the climb of the Coll de Soler at 56km to go and dropped the two riders suffering on his wheel on the descent.<\/em> It was a display of newfound bike handling panache.<\/p>\n

And once Evenepoel hit the 30+ kilometer valley toward the final climb of the race, it was game over.<\/p>\n

The world and Olympic TT champion rolled a huge single chainring and slumped into a newly refined bike fit to pull a monster 90-second lead within the space of a few minutes.<\/p>\n

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He hit the base of the final climb of the day at 10km to go with a two-minute lead and still looked rock-solid and immaculate. The short descent to the finish in Lluc was a formality.<\/p>\n

Behind Evenepoel, UAE Emirates\u2019 young gun Ant\u00f3nio Morgado outsprinted Christian Scaroni of XDS-Astana for second as they both continued their standout starts to 2026. Morgado won Trofeo Calvi\u00e0 earlier this week, while Scaroni claimed the Classica Camp de Morvedre the week before.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

No Lipowitz, no problem for Evenepoel and Red Bull<\/h2>\n
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Evenepoel was launched out of a Red Bull pain train at 56km to go in an impressive show of team force.<\/span> (Photo: Tim de Waele\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florian Lipowitz, Evenepoel\u2019s co-leader for the Tour de France, did not race Friday after the German made his season debut Thursday.<\/p>\n

And likewise, while Red Bull sent a stacked squad into Thursday\u2019s TTT as a dress rehearsal for the Tour de France, it scaled back the artillery for Friday\u2019s road race.<\/p>\n

But even with a \u201cB-Team,\u201d Red Bull was impressive Friday in the rugged mountains of Mallorca.<\/p>\n

The German squad controlled the lower-category race all day, clearly with a mission to launch its new leader into solo orbit.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was the plan to split the race there [at the climb]. We wanted to make it hard but didn\u2019t want to take anyone with us, so we needed an explosive attack,\u201d Red Bull DS Oliver Cookson told Cycling Pro Net.<\/em> \u201cChapeau to the whole team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way Remco rode was really clever, the way he had the two with him in the original break and dropped them on the descent,\u201d Cookson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cChapeau to Remco, it was a beautiful win.\u201d<\/p>\n

For both Evenepoel and his team, Friday\u2019s Trofeo Serra Tramuntana was a crucial mojo boost after a winter of overhaul. The team shook up its whole staffing structure as it transformed itself for its new chapter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a day for the team, and for Remco,\u201d Cookson smiled.<\/p>\n

Evenepoel and Co. now have to carry those good vibes all through to July and the grand d\u00e9part<\/em>, where the true big beasts of bike racing await.<\/p>\n

Evenepoel races again Saturday at the Trofeo Andratx-Pollen\u00e7a in the next instalment of the Mallorca Challenge. His new sidekick Lipowitz is also scheduled to be racing Saturday.<\/p>\n

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