BAHRAIN Merida Pro Cycling Team is ready for Dunkerque 2017. Four World Tour and 15 other teams will be challenged in six stages in the 63rd edition of 4 jours de Dunkerque starting today and concluding on Sunday.
“Our team leader for this tour will be Niccolò Bonifazio and he will try to repeat his good performance from Oman Tour and Abu Dhabi. Other riders in the lineup are Borut Božič, Feng Chun-Kai, Heinrich Haussler, Insausti Heinrich, Ion Insausti, Domen Novak, David Per and Meiyin Wang.
This will be the first race this year for injured Heinrich Haussler that will wear the Bahrain Merida jersey for the first time.
“I am very confident and excited to get out there on the road with the team,” said an excited Heinrich.
“I have a good feeling, I trained a lot before that race at home. I hope it will be a good week and is that there will be some good chances for me,” said Bonifazio.
Sports director Philippe Mauduit added: “We will go to this race with a young team and two very experienced riders, Borut Božič and Heinrich Haussler. For both of them it will be a comeback: for Borut after the strong start of the season and for Haussler after the injury.
“We will try everything to win a stage and try something for GC, even though we don’t have a GC rider. On this race there is no Time Trial Stage, so the race will be pretty open every day. We have a nice mix between young and two experienced riders and we hope for the best.”