I want to enable Remco Evenepoel gain a Grand Tour

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LAGHI DI CANCANO ITALY October 22 Hermann Pernsteiner of Austria and Workforce Bahrain Mclaren Joao Almeida of Portugal and Crew Deceuninck QuickStep Pink Leader Jersey Fausto Masnada of Italy and Group Deceuninck QuickStep Passo dello Stelvio Stilfserjoch 2758m Landscape Mountains Snow all through the 103rd Giro dItalia 2020 Stage 18 a 207km stage from Pinzolo to Laghi di Cancano Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio 1945m girodiitalia Giro on Oct 22 2020 in Laghi di Cancano Italy Image by Tim de WaeleGetty Photographs

Deceuninck-QuickStep climber Fausto Masnada has spelled out his ambitions for 2021 – his 1st comprehensive period on the workforce – with a Vuelta a España debut on the cards and the purpose to help Remco Evenepoel gain a Grand Tour.

The Italian designed a mid-year transfer to the Belgian squad past calendar year amid the financial collapse of CCC Staff, driving Tirreno-Adriatico and the Giro d’Italia for his new group and ending sixth and ninth respectively.

It was a career-best for the 27-year-outdated, who had finished 26th and 20th at the Giro in the earlier two seasons with Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec, also using a phase win in 2019. Following that first Grand Tour top-10, wherever he helped teammate João Almeida to fourth all round, Masnada designs to continue his progress on the Grand Tour stage.

“I will be satisfied if I can continue my advancement in the Grand Tours,” he explained to Tuttobiciweb. “If I can strengthen and enable my really solid teammate Remco Evenepoel to earn a Grand Tour, I would be pretty joyful.

“If I have carte blanche to gain a phase I will definitely try, but the crucial detail is to see a single of my teammates acquire a Grand Tour.”

Masnada designs to race both the Giro and Vuelta in 2021, even if his early year programs have been thrown off by the ongoing results of the COVID-19 pandemic, though a Tour de France debut is on the cards at some point, if not this season.

“I was planning to start out 2021 at San Juan and Turkey,” he explained. “But now the programs will be re-evaluated. I will certainly do the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España if I’m nutritious. Making the Tour de France is nonetheless a target – if it really is not this calendar year it will be subsequent year.

“There are a whole lot of champions in this group, but whoever directs is very good at preparing the races. There is certainly place for everyone, and earlier mentioned all they get you to the races super well prepared.”

As well as seeking forward and preparing his upcoming objectives, Masnada appeared again at a tumultuous 2020, wherever racing stopped as he was hitting his stride, and a mid-period go arrived through his initial yr at WorldTour amount. Still, irrespective of all the modifications, he rated it as a very good year on a individual level.

“It was an definitely good season for me. I started off with CCC, fulfilling my desire of having to a WorldTour team. All the things commenced on the right foot, with 12th in Provence and ninth at the Tour du Var, but then COVID-19 arrived, and everything improved.

“Our major sponsor experienced big issues with the collapse of sales and the group informed us that they would end at the stop of the period. The notion was to end 2020 with CCC for the reason that it seemed suitable out of regard for the people today I was functioning with, and then glance for a new arrangement.

“But then, for the duration of the Dauphiné my agent explained to me that Deceuninck-QuickStep were being fascinated, and they desired me immediately. The option was essential and CCC gave me the environmentally friendly light. I identified a fantastic loved ones in Belgium, wherever everyone works tricky and will help each individual other, and the success testify the ambiance. My purpose was to be as regular as feasible and to maintain expanding, and I believe I achieved it.”