Snuck in before Paris-Roubaix this year,
Amstel Gold race makes the transition between the cobbled and hilly classics, where the puncheurs and climbers come to the spotlight in what is the first of the Ardennes classics. It will take place in the tenth of April, and is one of the final spring classics.
As a World Tour classic it will have a big
prize money for the first placed riders, with the Top3 taking respectively €16.000, €8.000 and €4.000 euros. There is a total of €40.000 to be awarded throughout the first 20 placed riders in the race.