Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

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Max's personality isn't a specific attribute to Red Bull F1 as much as the cars and organization. Now that the rankings reflect a performance decline it seems he is primarily just surly. Remco engages with other riders and yes, does speak his mind but he doesn't spend much time bashing competitors and whining about his fate. I would say he's more marketable as long as he remembers he's on a team.
Remco is a team player so that will be fine. I was only referring to his outspoken personality that resembles Max a bit but not in a negative way of bashing competitors. Remco is a bit a "Dutch" Belgian. He says in all honesty what he thinks out loud. It's a bit uncommen for the average Belgian.
 
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Remco in a long post on Instagram talked about a broken rib at the Belgian champs and exhaustion in the build-up to the Tour, due to lacking winter base after the incident and thus always chasing form, which never really arrived. But he didn't want to not start the Tour.
 
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Remco in a long post on Instagram talked about a broken rib at the Belgian champs and exhaustian in the build-up to the Tour, due to lacking winter base after the incident and thus always chasing form, which never really arrived. But he didn't want to not start the Tour.
If what he's saying now is the whole truth, then he was running on hopium, which is understandable.

He finished the Tour with a stage win and empty legs, but more importantly, no crashes and no injuries. So it wasn't a total loss. It may actually be a learning episode in his career.

At 2024 he was unanimously considered 3rd best. Depending on the Vuelta 2025 he may drop a few places. It's up to him to put in the work during the winter so he can come back stronger in 2026 and show us his new level.
 
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Wouldn't it have made more sense for Red Bull to just buy QS? Tey seem to want to go through the trouble of turning the former Bora team into QS 2.0
Belgium needs a Belgian team.
 
It is known with a very high degree of certainty that the German team will sign Mattia Cattaneo who was Evenepoel's right-hand man at this Tour until his withdrawal, and also former Belgian national coach Sven Vanthourenhout. But according to La Dernière Heure the team will also sign Quick-Step DS Klaas Lodewyck, team mechanic Dario Kloek and soigneur David Geeroms.
Would be absolutely great!!!! As long as Remco stays in QS.
 

Wouldn't it have made more sense for Red Bull to just buy QS? Tey seem to want to go through the trouble of turning the former Bora team into QS 2.0
Everything of that story is fine except Lodewyck. He doesn’t need a DS-yes-man
 
Bro I was about to quote this exact thing. Im sure Logic is thrilled about Klaas joining Remco at Bora!
Yeah man, i'm celebrating right now, with 10 hookers, half a kilo of snort and a crate of wodka.
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