🚴 RACE PREVIEW 📙 Team Jayco AlUla goes all-in with Michael Matthews at Amstel Gold Race 💬 "We’ll aim to be proactive all day and make it our race instead of trying to ride someone else’s race.” 🇳🇱 #AGR24
Team Jayco AlUla 'all-in' for Michael Matthews as they unveil Amstel Gold Race lineup
CyclingFriday, 12 April 2024 at 17:00
After a bright Classics season so far, Team Jayco AlUla understandably take to the Amstel Gold Race startline with full faith in their leader, Michael Matthews.
“Michael Matthews will be our leader. He’s in really good shape and he finished off his cobbled classics campaign in really good shape and with the team we’re going to fully focus on him," says Pieter Weening Sport Director. "We also know that it is always a hard race and it’s always about positioning so getting into the right place before crucial points is the most important task for the other riders and getting Matthews into the right position. That’s the only goal the other riders have, positioning him and keeping him out of trouble."
"The whole parcours is situated in 30 square kilometres so there are a lot of climbs that we will do two or three times. I think in total it’s like 33 climbs and it will be a hard and taxing day," Weening concludes. "For us, the focus is on Matthews, delivering him into position in crucial points.”
One of those tasked with supporting Matthews will be Lawson Craddock. "We’re going in with Michael Matthews and he’s been on a tear lately with some of the big results that he’s got," Craddock says. "There’s a lot of confidence in him knowing that he can deliver a good ride for us. I think we’ll just aim to be proactive all day and make it our ride instead of trying to race someone else’s race.”
Team Jayco AlUla for Amstel Gold Race 2024:
Michael Matthews, Lawson Craddock, Luke Durbridge, Anders Foldager, Felix Engelhardt, Mauro Schmid and Jan Maas.
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