Interest has been drumming up for Thursday's Trofeo Sel Salines, with the unusual change to a team time trial instead of a road race, incentivising several teams to bring top riders as a key testing opportunity for this year's Tour de France, which opens with a 19km TTT in Barcelona.
Remco Evenepoel is there with Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, and UAE Team Emirates-XRG have brought many of the riders who could support Tadej Pogačar in July. So it begs the question, why isn't every top WorldTour team starting in the Challenge Mallorca race?
