'I didn't learn much, except that the pursuers were ridiculous' – Boonen on his DS training at E3

Former pro Tom Boonen spent Friday's E3 Saxo Classic in a Soudal-QuickStep team car to see if he has a future in a team role, with mixed results.

"It was a nice day, I saw a great race. It was fun to be in the car again. Today was a reconnaissance day; I don’t know what the future holds," the former Classics specialist told Sporza. "Van der Poel delivered as expected, but it was quite a tough performance. Otherwise, it was a typical edition of [E3], exciting until the very end. I didn't learn much else today, except that those pursuers were ridiculous at the end.

"I worked myself up about that. You do all that work together to get there, and then those last 10 meters are really not the time to start acting like a fool."

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