The Bahrain McLaren 2020 is already training together on the roads of Alicante, although its riders alternate road training (some six-hour day) with aerodynamic tests at the Luis Puig velodrome in Valencia, led by engineers from the car firm. These measurements are complementary to those already taken in the wind tunnel of the Boardman Performance Center, in England, more than a month ago.

Mikel Landa has started his training this week around Altea (Alicante) along with most of his teammates. All but those who will make their debut on the 19th in the Tour Down Under and other races in the antipodes, which are already in Australia. One of them, Rafa Valls , who has followed the Alavés climber since the Movistar Team. Mark Cavendish , who was missing in the previous concentration of the team in Croatia, is part of the group that works in Spain.

This Thursday, Matthew Williams, principal engineer of the McLaren Group in charge of aerodynamic tests, has pointed out the importance of sessions at the Valencian velodrome to extract data from each of the runners and improve their performance. "We want to use the technique of Formula 1 to optimize teamwork," he said in a video posted by the sports group on social networks.

BERNAL LEADS A LATIN AMERICAN INEOS

Under the leadership of Colombian Egan Bernal , the last winner of the Tour de France, Team Ineos will show its every Latin American in the Tour Colombia 2.1, which will be held in the Boyacá and Cundinamarca regions between February 11 and 16. Absent Chris Froome -which is concentrated in Tenerife with no reappearance date- and the European figures of the team, the cast also presents the 2019 Giro champion, Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz, his compatriot Jonnathan Narváez and Colombians Iván Sosa, Sebastián Henao and Brandon Rivera The director will be the Spanish coach Xabier Artetxe .

MOVISTAR TEAM IN AUSTRALIA

The only Spanish WorldTour team has displaced its gladiators for the first fight of the year, the Tour Down Under (January 19-23). We will have to get used to hearing and reading their new and little known names, two of them, the German Juri Hollmann and the British Gabriel Cullaigh, with little reference worldwide. Together with them, veterans Lluís Mas, Jurgen Roelandts (BEL) and Edu Prades , along with Jorge Arcas and Sergio Samitier .

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