World champion Wout Van Aert (Crelan-Vastgoedservice) claimed his first Superprestige race of the season during the fifth round at the F1 car racing circuit in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. It was the first victory in more than a month for Van Aert, who topped Mathieu van der Poel and Toon Aerts.
"It's great. I've never lost in Francorchamps so I love to come here," Van Aert told Telenet Play Sports.
Dutch champion Mathieu van der Poel (Beobank-Corendon) saw his Superprestige winning streak of four races come to an end, but fended off a late charge from European champion Toon Aerts (Telenet-Fidea) to take second.
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Van der Poel remains in the lead of the Superprestige series with a three-points bonus over Van Aert.
"It's a hard race. I'd loved to have won but second is not bad," Van der Poel said. Once dropped by Van Aert on the steep run-up Van der Poel didn't push on. "I quickly realized that I didn't have the legs to bridge back up. I opted to focus on second place with the eye on the classification," Van der Poel said.
When crossing the finish line Van Aert didn't lift his hands in the air. "I was way too tired. The Raidillon is much too hard to lift up your hands afterwards."
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