Eight race days, five victories, a perfect team time trial, and a first general classification win in almost two years. Remco Evenepoel could hardly have written himself a better start to his time at Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe if he tried, but what does early success mean for the Belgian superstar, who dreams of unseating Tadej Pogačar from cycling's top spot?
Gone are the days of peaking too early in the season – just look at the Slovenian, who has been a perennial winner from season start to end during his career – so it won't be timing that Evenepoel fears for the Tour de France. But he knows all too well that the gap from Pogačar to everyone else the past two years has grown to become colossal.
