BMC Racing Team enjoyed a successful Sunday of racing racking up a couple of stage wins and WorldTour points while narrowly missing overall victories at both the Arctic Race of Norway and the Eneco Tour in Belgium.
Silvan Dillier won the final stage and the best young rider classification in Norway, finishing a mere eight seconds behind overall winner Rein Taaramäe (Astana). Dillier's teammate, Ben Hermans, held the lead following his stage win Saturday but lost it after suffering a mechanical in the final 30km of the race. The Belgian crossed the line over a minute after Dillier, finishing the race ninth overall.
"In the final 30 kilometres, I think Ben had a problem with his bike, so I stayed in front to check the situation," Dillier said of the final day's racing. "First, both Astana and Katusha were pushing forward. But then Astana set a hard tempo and split the field. I just stayed on the wheel and hoped that Ben could get back. But then, at the end, I saw the chance to win the stage and I took it."
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Yvon Ledanois, director sportif for BMC, was proud of the young squad. "For them to control the race with only five riders is hard, so the team did a very good job."
The stage win was Dillier's first for his team on the road in 2015 having opened his season account with the Swiss time trial title in June.
Manuel Quinziato followed suit at the Eneco Tour, soloing to his first individual victory since 2008, with his teammate Greg Van Avermaet finishing runner up overall and Philippe Gilbert in fourth. Quinziato's only other professional win came was a solo win on the second stage of the 2006 edition of the race although the Italian was part of the BMC team which won the team time trials at the Critérium du Dauphiné and Tour de France.
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