Sam Bennett says he expects to move to the World Championships street race on Sunday as considered one of two protected riders for Eire along with Ben Healy.
Presently racing the Tour de Pologne with commerce crew Bora-Hansgrohe, Bennett has proven rising type on the current Sibiu Tour in Romania with two victories. He claimed fourth place on the opening day in Poland regardless of, he stated, making two errors in stage 1’s bunch dash finale.
Bennett may have two extra possibilities to indicate his type in Pologne on stage 4 and stage 7 previous to heading to Glasgow for the Worlds street race on August 6.
The switch window for 2024 opens formally on August 1 and the 32-year-old, out of contract in December, is broadly believed to be shifting on from Bora-Hansgrohe for the second time in his profession after he was neglected of their Tour de France crew for the second straight yr.
Nevertheless, regardless of rumours linking him to a number of locations, Bennett says nothing is but determined for subsequent yr. “There’s no information for now,” Bennett informed Cyclingnews earlier than stage 3 of the Tour de Pologne.
Relating to the Worlds, Bennett says that Eire’s technique for the street race will doubtless be for “us to have two guys [as co-leaders],” specifically himself and Giro d’Italia stage winner Ben Healy.
“Ben can go up the street to see what he can do and I can wait and see what occurs in the principle bunch,” Bennett stated. “It’s going to be a really arduous race and a really technical course with plenty of corners. So we’ll must take it because it comes.”
As for Pologne, Bennett admitted that he had fluffed his strains within the opening bunch dash on the rain-lashed motor circuit in Poznan on Saturday.
“I went too early, I used to be caught on the entrance with 300 metres to go in a slight headwind, and I ended up main out everybody,” he stated. “That was unlucky as a result of it by no means actually confirmed how I’m going.
“I’m simply again from altitude and I obtained these two wins in Sibiu, so I’m undoubtedly going all proper. That outcome doesn’t present something, as a result of the 2 issues I stated I shouldn’t try this day – be too early on the entrance and go too early – had been the 2 issues I did.”
After not being chosen for the Tour de France, Bennett’s end-of-season program will see him miss out on a Grand Tour utterly in 2023, and as a substitute, he stated, he’ll be doing races just like the Deutschland Tour and the Tour of Britain.
“First, although, it’s the Worlds,” he identified, with the Tour de Pologne the final alternative to shine his type earlier than subsequent Sunday. And if he can enhance on that fourth place on Saturday in Poznan between now and the tip of the race in Krakow – which historically ends in a bunch dash – then a lot the higher.