Team DSM coach Phil West: “The big early season finale that’s bigger than Christmas in Belgium. At 273 kilometres, the longest of all the cobbles classics and arguably one of the toughest parcours on the calendar we can anticipate an action-packed race and a big fight into the key sectors. As a team, we want to continue to work hard as a block and come later in the race with numbers. Oude Kwaremont is normally a turning point in the race and so the goal will be to present in the front there and after that we take our chances and race positively and go in for the fight that De Ronde always delivers.”
