Orica-GreenEdge will be switching to a different strategy in this year’s Vuelta al País Vasco, with their target set for a strong general classification performance, according to the team's director Neil Stephens.
“Any other year we’ve been more focussed on stages and keeping the GC in mind,” Orica-GreenEdge sports director and long term Basque Country resident Stephens told Cyclingnews on Monday. “But now it’s the other way round.”
“If a stage win is on the cards, we’ll take advantage of it, but the most important thing is GC.”
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For the two Yates brothers, Adam and Simon, both of whom are racing in Pais Vasco this year, it can be said that last year’s race brought radically different results. Simon took fifth overall in the stage race last year, but Adam had to abandon because of injuries in the notorious stage 1 mass pile up, breaking his finger in a crash caused by metal poles that had not been removed from the finishing straight.
As Stephens puts it, “Simon's done the most here on GC up to now. But I said to Adam, ‘don’t discount yourself on any given stage’ because he may be the one who can help his brother stay up there on GC.
“But up to now, Simon’s been the GC racer and Adam, who’s won the Clásica San Sebastian near here, is the one-day guy. Up until now.”
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