Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team manager Ralph Denk has confirmed that Remco Evenepoel and Florian Lipowitz are both team leaders for the Tour de France, but admitted that one of them will eventually emerge as the team's protected rider as they "fight it out between themselves on the road."
Denk is convinced the dual leadership strategy can work and played down any internal rivalry, with any 'fight' for leadership expected to be fair and honest, and managed much like the 'Papaya Rules' of the McLaren Formula 1 team, which allows their pilots to race freely but without damaging the team's overall ambitions.
