Lampre-Merida sprinter Davide Cimolai has said that netting a sprint win during stage 6 in the Volta a Catalunya “is worth double” because it is the team’s first in the UCI WorldTour this year.
Cimolai surged up the left hand side of the finishing straight in Vilanova i la Geltru to take a chaotic bunch sprint win in which the peloton only sucked up the last man standing from the breakaway - Cameron Meyer (Dimension Data) - within 50 metres of the line.
As Meyer finally sat up and drifted back on the right hand side of the finishing straight, Cimolai had timed his move well, finishing more than a bike length clear of Niklas Arndt . Arndt’s Giant-Alpecin squad is, curiously enough, the only other WorldTour squad along with Lampre still lacking a win in the WorldTour category this season so far.
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Cimolai, 26, said that although his team had worked very hard to pull back the day-long break, the difficult terrain mid-stage, including a second category climb, and no less 11 riders up the road all gunning for a breakaway win at one point had made the task of ensuring the stage culminated in a bunch sprint an exceptionally tricky one.
“It was a very complicated stage to win, with so many riders ahead in the break to be honest I didn’t think we’d have any chance of taking the victory in a bunch sprint,” Cimolai commented.
“I have to thank the team, because this required a lot of hard work to succeed on their part. Without them, it wouldn’t have happened.”
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