Remco Evenepoel‘s change from Soudal-Quickstep to Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe has resulted in the most successful start to a season of his career, with three wins during the Mallorca Challenge and two stage victories and the overall at the Return to the Valencian Community.
The 26-year-old now has six wins to his 2026 tally in just eight days of racing, but he counts only five.
By comparison, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) will not even start his season for another month at Strade Bianche, and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) suffered a crash and illness over the last few weeks and had to scuttle plans to compete in the UAE Tour next week. Evenepoel has definitely started the year with the upper hand on his Tour de France rivals even if it’s still early days.
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