Jonas Vingegaard "can improve quite a lot" towards Giro and Tour insists Visma DS: "He’s happy, eager to attack, and his form is very good"

Jonas Vingegaard’s overall victory at the Volta a Catalunya may have underlined his early-season dominance, but inside Team Visma | Lease a Bike, there is a clear belief that the Dane is still building towards a higher level.

Sports director Jesper Morkov offered a revealing assessment after the race, pointing not just to Vingegaard’s current form, but to what could still come in the weeks ahead. “Jonas is in a good place. He’s happy, eager to attack, and his form is very good. So I think things are looking promising when we look ahead to the Giro,” the Danish DS tells TV2.

That view is striking given how controlled Vingegaard’s week in Catalunya ultimately was. The Dane absorbed repeated pressure across the mountain stages and the Barcelona finale, responding to every move that mattered before sealing the general classification.

For Morkov, however, the most important takeaway is that this level is not yet the ceiling. “I actually think he can improve quite a lot. He’s just come through two very, very tough races back to back.”

That progression is central to how Visma are structuring Vingegaard’s season, with both the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France still to come.

Rather than pushing immediately on, the expectation within the team is that recovery will unlock another step forward. “We know Jonas - when he gets the chance to spend some time on the sofa after this, he’ll get a really good boost in form.”

That phase will then be followed by a return to structured preparation. “Then there’s the altitude training camp, and after that it will be good.”

With Paris-Nice and Catalunya now secured, Vingegaard has already laid down a marker in the early part of the season. Yet internally, the focus remains firmly on what lies ahead rather than what has already been achieved.

The combination of race sharpness, recovery, and altitude training is expected to bring him closer to peak condition just as the season’s biggest objectives come into view.

For now, Catalunya confirms his authority. According to his team, it may only be the beginning of something even stronger.