Vacek: “As a team we did it perfectly”

October 6 ^th 2024 - 18:03

Mathias Vacek (Lidl - Trek): “I’m pretty satisfied, although I was second. In the end it was a fight between me and [Christophe] Laporte. It was 50-50, we worked together pretty well. I think in the end it was just whoever had the better sprint and he managed to beat me. Tactically as a team we did it perfectly, with Mads [Pedersen] attacking a bit earlier in the race, we managed to catch the group of Affini and then Laporte attacked off one of the climbs and I was able to go with him. Then Mads was already a bit on the limit and he dropped on one of the sectors and me and Laporte went to the finish. In the end it was a great job by everybody. [On Pedersen’s attack] As a team we did a perfect lead out for the first sector and Mads had good legs, he felt good, he tried and in the end it was a race. He did also really good and then there was still me there to go to the finish line with Laporte so as a team we did really well.”