Soudal - Quick-Step save the day! Training ride turns into impromptu roadside rescue in Calpe

A routine winter training ride around Calpe took a surreal turn when Soudal - Quick-Step riders found a car somehow stranded on a roadside wall on one of the area’s busiest cycling roads.

The team were out on their usual January training loop when they came across the vehicle sitting awkwardly above the road. How it ended up there was unclear, but the scene was strange enough for Yves Lampaert to stop, film it, and then turn back with his team to help.

What followed was an improvised rescue. Several riders got off their bikes and physically pushed the car back down onto the road, with one of Lampaert’s team-mates even getting into the driver’s seat to help guide it clear.

Calpe is one of the most popular winter bases in professional cycling. Throughout January and February, its roads are packed with WorldTour teams, continental squads, amateurs, and holiday riders, all sharing the same narrow climbs and fast descents.

That is what made the scene so jarring. A car stranded on a roadside wall in an area used daily by thousands of cyclists immediately raised questions about how the situation had even happened in the first place.

The moment quickly spread online after Lampaert shared videos of the incident on Instagram, showing his team turning around mid-ride to lend a hand. One passing pro team could even be seen riding past and cheering as the stranded car was finally freed.

Lampaert summed up the moment with typical Wolfpack humour, writing: “Forza Wolfpack. We turned around to help to get this man on the road again! Probably wouldn’t be possible with a bunch of climbers.”

It was an unexpected interruption to a standard winter training day, but one that showed the peloton in a very human light: not just watt machines ticking off intervals, but riders willing to stop, get their hands dirty, and help when something clearly is not right.

In a place where cyclists and traffic are constantly forced to coexist, the strange Calpe rescue was a reminder that sometimes the most memorable moments of a training camp have nothing to do with power numbers at all.