A good lead-out man is a precious, and indeed rare, commodity. The best sprint partnerships run on total trust and telepathic understanding and, after more than a fair share of teething problems, Caleb Ewan believes he’s struck upon a winning formula with Luka Mezgec.
The young Australian sprinter started working with the Slovenian rider at Orica-Scott last year, but it’s only this year, he says, that things have started clicking. Three wins from six stages of the Tour of Britain would certainly attest to that.
“It’s taken time and I think to be honest we’ve only really started working well together from the Giro onwards. It’s taken that kind of length of time but, yeah, now I think we’re working really well together,” said Ewan in Aldeburgh after picking up the third win this week.
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While Ewan chose to leave Mezgec early in Aldeburgh to take an aggressive line through a nasty right-hand bend, the 29-year-old, a former stage winner at the Giro d’Italia, was crucial in teeing him up for stages 1 and 3.
Ewan now has 10 victories to his name this season, including a stage at the Giro d’Italia. Roger Kluge has been used as a lead-out man on occasion, but Mezgec has been by his side for six of those wins – all of them since the Tour Down Under.
“I think we always said from the start when we started working together that it was going to be hard – well not hard, but it was going to take time to kind of evolve our relationship together and work out how each other kind of rides in the finish,” Ewan explained .
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