Aggressive racing paid off for BMC Racing at the RideLondon-Surrey Classic on Sunday with Jean-Pierre Drucker winning the race from a small break on The Mall in London.
The Luxembourg rider won ahead of Mike Teunissen and last year’s runner-up Ben Swift in a tight finish but BMC Racing were deserving of the victory having placed riders in several key breaks.
Gerts Floris was the first BMC rider to attack from the main field with still over 100km to go. He bridged up the day’s early break and provided cover when a larger group containing teammates Rohan Dennis, Philippe Gilbert and Drucker moved clear.
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However, the racing-winning attack came with around 70 kilometres to go when the peloton, sapped of energy after a persisted around of attacking through the Surrey hills, let a group of eight, including Drucker, move clear.
For team director Max Sciandri, the win was a collaborative effort from his riders, although he admitted surprise that so few teams applied a similar tactic of trying to break the peloton up before the long and flat run into London’s capital for the finish.
“When you’re racing with six riders it’s not easy. Especially when you’re used to racing with eight or nine in your team. The plan was to have a hard race. We needed a hard race with a hard race in the middle section,” Sciandri told Cyclingnews at the finish.
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