Eli Iserbyt on Superprestige Ruddervoordekeeps victory - "This was the least of all my races. It was a lucky shot in the arm"

Eli Iserbyt continued his streak of victory with Superprestige Ruddervoordekeeps. He beat Laurens Sweeck to secure the victory. It is his fifth victory of this season.

But it was not like other races. “This was the least of all my races," Iserbyt said in the post race interview. He continues, "My start was very bad.I lost a huge amount of energy in the first two laps. Of course, the rest had also seen that Laurens and I were behind. When I got to the front, I wanted to temporize, but there was always someone accelerating. I also made too many mistakes because maybe I had a little too little tire pressure."

But he got his chance when Lars encountered a tyre puncture. He belives that if not for mechanical failure, he could not save won the race. "After a bike change, I then tried for a moment, but I also didn't want to go too deep with the World Cup cross in Maasmechelen in mind. So I then thought about second place. But after some good turns through Sweeck's sand and Van der Haar's flat tires, we came closer. This was the least of all my races. It was a lucky shot in the arm,” concluded the Belgian rider.