Soudal-QuickStep may have the third-most wins of any team so far in the 2023 season, but Friday's E3 Saxo Classic brought another misstep in what has been a miserable spring Classics campaign for the Belgian squad.
As the titans of Wout van Aert, Mathieu van der Poel, and Tadej Pogačar did battle at the front of the 204km race, the Classics powerhouse struggled to 16th place over two minutes down via Yves Lampaert, while fellow team leaders Julian Alaphilippe and Florian Sénéchal were among the DNFs.
