Freddy Ovett is a relative newcomer in the professional sport of cycling having swapped his runners for wheels just two years ago. His rapid transformation into one of the riders to watch in the U23 ranks has many asking of his potential and saw Dutch SEG Racing team sign him up for the 2016 season late last month.
SEG believe the 21-year-old is worth investing in and have made Ovett its second Australian signing for the coming year with Nick Schultz also spending his final U23 season with the squad. Like Schultz, Ovett spent the 2015 season predominately racing the French Amateur circuit, doing so with Ag2r-La Mondiale's development team Chambéry CF and calling the French alps home.
"The French amateur scene is quite full on, racing a lot, constantly in trucks and vans going off to some obscure location to race a couple of times a week," Ovett told Cyclingnews of how he predominately spent the season.
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It wasn't all race, travel, race for Ovett though as he made a handful of appearance with the Australian team that also saw him take part in some of the most prestigious races available for U23 riders. The experience also opened his eyes to Italian racing, which Ovett found to be a far more tranquillo affair than the French races as he explained.
"The French racing, it took a while to get used to as it was almost a shock in just how aggressive they are and how there is somewhat no team tactic," he said. "The tactic is more to attack all the time rather than get five guys on the front and control the break. It felt like in French amateur racing that a break is never really established, if someone goes off the front it seems the whole peloton isn't happy with that. Regardless if it's one of the best guys in the race or some punter.
"I feel like I do enjoy and understand Italian racing a little bit more as they race more like the WorldTour guys because they control the race more," he said of the differences. "In French racing, the final is never actually the hardest part of the race. It's usually the first hour when you're doing the most power and when it's the most aggressive. Whereas in the Italian races, the last hour is always when everything is going down. It's quite a contrast of races but it was nice to do both, especially being so new to it all."
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