2019 Dwars door Vlaanderen, April 3th, 182.8km (1.WT)

[Flamin]

Official start at 12.25 CEST. Live on Sporza and Eurosport from 14.30 CEST.

START LIST

Top-10 from 2018:

1) Yves Lampaert (Quick-Step Floors)
2) Mike Teunissen (Team Sunweb) +2s
3) Sep Vanmarcke (EF Education First-Drapac)
4) Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data)
5) Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo)
6) Zdeněk Štybar (Quick-Step Floors) +29s
7) Tiesj Benoot (Lotto Soudal) +30s
8) Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) +59s
9) Niki Terpstra (Quick-Step Floors)
10) Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo)

Previous winners:

2017 Yves Lampaert
2016 Jens Debusschere
2015 Jelle Wallays
2014 Niki Terpstra
2013 Oscar Gatto

 

[Pantani_lives]

Thanks for starting the thread. They predict bad weather. People will look out to see Valverde. Vanmarcke will be back. Stybar and Van Aert will be absent. My stars:

*****Gilbert, Van Avermaet, Kristoff
****Lampaert, Jungels, Naesen
***Terpstra, Van der Poel
**Valverde, Stuyven
*Benoot, Vanmarcke, Boasson Hagen

 

[fauniera]

Mathieu will win.

 

[Red Rick]

That's 3 times now I've clicked on this thread mistaking it for De Ronde van Vlaanderen.

 

[Laplaz]

Mathieu Van der Poel will win this bike race.

 

[OlavEH]

Naesen, Stuyven or Van der Poel are my guess for the win.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Re:

That's 3 times now I've clicked on this thread mistaking it for De Ronde van Vlaanderen.

why not make it a sticky guys?

 

[RedheadDane]

Re: Re:

That's 3 times now I've clicked on this thread mistaking it for De Ronde van Vlaanderen.

why not make it a sticky guys?

Yeah, Rick. Make them both sticky, this way you'll still be confused.

 

[Velolover2]

An edition like last year with showers and a fast Knokteberg would be amazing. No sprinter in top 13.

It's a bit easier than E3/Omloop but still a race for the specialists if you look at the list of winners.

 

[Pantani_lives]

This might be the only cobbled classic with rain this spring.

 

[Salvarani]

Re:

This might be the only cobbled classic with rain this spring.

I wonder if some riders will think more about the weekend coming up if the weather makes the race too hard or dangerous with crashes. Maybe an outsider will be able to do something, thats more eager to risk it and take chances.

Some might even be a bit sore after GW also, that are lining up here too. It was a long race with the distance, but the pace they had made it brutal.

 

[DNP-Old]

Re:

This might be the only cobbled classic with rain this spring.

Not looking good right now. Weather on Wednesday in Waregem has changed to just cloudy.

 

[Lequack]

From 1990 edition (29 years ago), Edwig Van Hooydonck wins, with Adrie Van Der Poel (father of Mathieu Van Der Poel) second:

 

[tobydawq]

Re:

From 1990 edition (29 years ago), Edwig Van Hooydonck wins, with Adrie Van Der Poel (father of Mathieu Van Der Poel) second:

I think the van der Poel family will get revenge over the Van Hooydoncks this time.

 

[Koronin]

Re: Re:

This might be the only cobbled classic with rain this spring.

Not looking good right now. Weather on Wednesday in Waregem has changed to just cloudy.

How cold is it supposed to be?

 

[Robert5091]

Re: Re:

This might be the only cobbled classic with rain this spring.

Not looking good right now. Weather on Wednesday in Waregem has changed to just cloudy.

How cold is it supposed to be?

Chilly - https://weather.com/weather/today/l/BEXX0451:1
Cloudy with occasional rain showers. High 9C.(49F) Winds S at 10 to 15 km/h. Chance of rain 50%.

 

[Flamin]

GVA confirmed as a non-starter. Probably not too fond of the predicted rain in the afternoon.

 

[Oliver]

It's time for Oliver to win!

 

[Bardamu]

Re:

This might be the only cobbled classic with rain this spring.

I want a rainy Roubaix!

 

[Lequack]

8 Big Photos from Dwars door Vlaanderen 2018 — corvos/getty
http://www.steephill.tv/2018/dwars-door-vlaanderen/photos/page-01/

17 Big Photos from Dwars door Vlaanderen 2017 — sirotti
http://www.steephill.tv/2017/dwars-door-vlaanderen/photos/page-01/

 

[Velolover2]

Without Van Aert, Van Avermaet and Štybar (the three strongest riders of the spring), the race is really open.

Jungels is my favorite. He will attack from distance again. And without GVA and Sagan to set the pace, who is going to catch him?

 

[PremierAndrew]

Re: Re:

This might be the only cobbled classic with rain this spring.

I want a rainy Roubaix!

We may be in luck

Looks like there's going to be rain with crosswinds of 30km/h and gusts over 80km/h

But weather forecasts are inaccurate enough three days in advance, let alone 12, so we'll see I guess

 

[Anderis]

Vanmarcke is not riding.

Not a good sign in terms of recovery ahead of Flanders. He was supposed to try to be here. The cobbled campaign might be lost for him this year, I'm afraid.

 

[yaco]

I doubt Jungels will be let off the leash again - He will be marked.

 

[Mavic]

Jungels won't get away that easy this time. I'd be very shocked if they just let him ride away now that they know what he can do. Unless DQS can somehow prevent the other teams from reacting/chasing.