Quick-Step Floors have moved quickly to ensure they don’t lose rising star Enric Mas anytime soon, by adding a year to his current contract. Mas, who stepped up from the team’s development squad Klein Constantia this season, was already signed up to the team until the end of next season, but will now be with them until at least 2019.
“I am really happy to have extended my contract with the team,” Mas said in a press release. “It is my first season as a pro and no doubt I felt the levelling up, but I think I can be happy with how things have played out so far and I hope that if I keep progressing like now, step by step, at one point in the future I will be able to stay with the very best riders in the mountains.
“My hope for the years that lie ahead of me is to be able to ride for the general classification in a Grand Tour, but I am still young, and right now my focus is to progress as a rider and learn as much as possible, and on this team I have the best conditions for just that.”
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Mas turned pro with an impressive reputation from a very successful 2016 season. He has gradually settled into his new place in the Quick-Step Floors team as the season has progressed, with 14th at the Vuelta al Pais Vasco a notable early-season result. Since then, he has finished 14th overall at the Tour of California and enjoyed a strong Vuelta a Burgos, where he finished second on the final stage to move into second overall, 40 seconds down on winner Mikel Landa.
He is currently making his Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a España and finished third on stage 6 into Sagunt after making it into the early break.
“The squad is incredible, this year has been overwhelming with so many victories, and of course I want to contribute to that and dream about getting great results with Quick-Step Floors in the future,” said Mas. “I was happy with my performance in Burgos, that I could be up there with the strongest in the mountains and finish on the podium, was something that really boosted my morale.
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