Remco Evenepoel: "I'm surprised with the gaps"

June 11 ^th 2025 - 17:39

“It was actually tough, with a steep climb. My goal, was to go as fast as possible until the intermediate and then keep a steady pace. I had an advantage with a lot of headwind in the valley so I used that to make the most of my position, and then I went as fast as possible on the climb with a perfect pacing strategy. I’m very happy with this victory, it’s the 1000th of the team. It’s a special day, I’m very proud to have done it.

I’m surprised with the gaps. It’s quite big on quite a short TT so I’m very happy to have put over a second per kilometre on everybody, and even two seconds per kilometre on some.

I’m feeling good and it’s always nice to bring home a World Tour victory. In terms of weight, I’m already good, better than I was last year at this point. I’ve been working super hard behind the scenes, day by day, trusting the process, and today was a day I wanted to perform. Then we can focus on the week-end and try to defend the jersey until Sunday.

I need to test myself against Tadej [Pogacar] and Jonas [Vingegaard] on the high mountains. That's what I worked for. The climb today was already a bit of a test. I think I did it how I wanted I’m feeling happy, I’m feeling goof on the climb and the flat as well. It’s good for what we have ahead of us this week-end and next month.

I knew I had to do a very good TT to get past Tadej and Jonas and it was also quite close with Florian Lipowitz. It was a perfect day.”