EvoPro Racing: Wouter Wippert takes the final stage in Hungary ahead of the ProContinental team sprinters. It was the Irish squad's ninth win of the season.
Wouter Wippert has taken EvoPro Racing’s latest win; the final stage at the Tour of Hungary.
The Dutch rider finished off a great team performance over the last 10km. The Irish squad had fought hard in a very scrappy finish to keep Wippert in contention.
A number of teams put their trains on the front too early; Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec and Elkov-Author Cycling Team among them.
And while the pace was maintained high until about the
last 3km, there was much less control from that point.
Indeed, it was Israel Cycling Academy – who had Krists Neilands in yellow – that took it up just inside 3km to go.
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When his team mate Zak Dempster hit the front the speed ramped up and the teams who had been trying to control the action largely disappeared.
At that point EvoPro Racing had been on the front, or close to it, for about 10km; Ireland’s Daire Feeley in its line-up and making his contribution.
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While Harry Sweeny was last EvoPro man standing for Wippert and did a great job, the duo got swamped a little with just over 2km to go.
However, Wippert then jumped onto the back wheel of
Cofidis who came charging onto the front of the peloton.
The Dutch rider stayed in their wheels until a few hundred metres out and then opened up his sprint, just about taking it on the line.
He saw off three ProContinental team sprinters in the
final push for the line to seal the victory after a great team effort.
Just behind him Hugo Hofstetter (Cofidis) was 2nd, Mihkel Räim (Israel Cycling Academy) was 3rd and Manuel Belletti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) was 4th.
Wippert’s victory at the end of 168.3km
from Kecskemét to Székesfehérvár followed his 2nd place
on stage 3.
It was his third win of the season and EvoPro Racing's ninth of the 2019 campaign; its first in the pro peloton.
Daire Feeley came over the finish line yesterday in 87th place, at 29 seconds; celebrating a team victory after the field splintered in the final kilometre.
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