Mark Renshaw is pleased with the way things are going for himself and Mark Cavendish but admitted to being frustrated by Etixx-QuickStep not providing them with a dedicated support unit.
Renshaw and Cavendish were the final cogs in the famous HTC-Highroad lead-out train, perhaps the slickest winning machine the sport has seen, but the extent and variety of talent on the Etixx roster means the duo can’t enjoy the same luxury now. The Belgian squad boasts the likes of world champion Michal Kwiatkowski, three-time world time trial champion Tony Martin, along with Classics men Tom Boonen and Zdenek Stybar, not to mention a genuine Grand Tour contender in Rigoberto Urán.
“In this team it’s really hard,” Renshaw said on Saturday ahead of the sprint-oriented Tour of Turkey. “We have so many big riders and I don’t think we’ll ever pull them together like we did in HTC. It will always be this group of guys and that group of guys all targeting their individual things.
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“The team is getting better each year, and with [Fabio] Sabatini coming in we have more of a core group around Cav. But we can’t expect that things will be 100% for Cav because the team wants the yellow jersey, the white jersey… It definitely makes life more complicated.”
While Cavendish and Renshaw are unable to fully recreate the days of old, some of their competitors are looking to do just that, notably the Manxman’s new arch-rival, Marcel Kittel. The German’s set-up at Giant-Alpecin is one Renshaw looks at with envy.
“Giant can dedicate five or six riders purely to Kittel. Our guys, especially Tony [Martin] and Kwiatkowski who are really loyal teammates to Cav, will give 100% but if it’s the day before a time trial you know Tony’s going to swing off a little bit early,” Renshaw said.
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