Matt Brammeier says that he’s looking forward to the prospect of leading out Mark Cavendish when the pair race together at Dimension Data next season. Cavendish and Brammeier were teammates in HTC-Highroad’s final season and rode together on the Great Britain academy before that.
“I definitely want to get stuck in helping Cav and become an integral part of that team. I’ve done it before and I’ve kind of grown up with Cav doing all the lead-outs with him,” Brammeier told Cyclingnews. “He learned how to sprint and I learned how to do lead-outs at the same time. We’ve obviously been on teams together in the past and I know what he needs. That’s my biggest goal and what I’m looking forward to the most.
“In this team, with Cav and the races that we’re doing and now that we’re WorldTour I think that this is where my real value is. Hopefully I can prove that to the team and have a really good year. This is where I want to be for as long as possible. I just have to get my ass in gear and try to do a good job.”
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He may have won his first professional victory but Brammeier’s 2015 season will probably be remembered for his spectacular crash on stage 6 of the Tour of Utah. The collision with a car left him in hospital with fractures to several ribs, and his sacral and pelvic bones, he also suffered a pneumothorax (air between the lungs and the chest cavity).
Prior to the accident, Brammeier had been going well in his first season with MTN-Qhubeka – even scoring his maiden professional win at the ZLM Toer - and was on course to make his Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a Espana. Four months on from the accident, Brammeier is back on his bike and was able to train with the team at their camp in South Africa late last month. There are still a few aches and pains as a result but he’s in the clear now and says that he’s heading in the right direction for a return to racing at either the Mallorca Challenge or the Dubai Tour early next year.
“I’m really happy with where I am. My goal was always to come here (at the team training camp) and to be able to go out and ride with the guys and I’m doing that. I’m feeling good and I think I’m on track to start next year at the start of the year. I can’t really ask more than that,” he said. “I’m pretty confident that it will all go well, obviously we’ll have to keep checking along the way but so far I haven’t had any problems. If there are none in the near future then it should be ok.”
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