Legends of the Tour by Ellis Bacon

Author:Ellis Bacon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Published: 2015-05-07T04:00:00+00:00

MANUEL

QUINZIATO

The chiselled Italian joined BMC from Liquigas in 2011 as a time trial and one-day specialist before transforming himself into one of the best road captains in the business. Powerful, easy on the eye, perpetually smiling and immensely likeable, Quinziato quickly established himself as Cadel Evans’s most loyal domestique, and alongside George Hincapie, Marcus Burghardt and Michael Schär, formed the engine room behind the Australian’s overall victory in 2011.

Ask any top Tour rider in the peloton who they would pick in a dream team and many would opt for Quinziato—a rider entirely devoid of showmanship or ego, whose reliability (he has finished all eight of his Tours to date), stealth (his highest finish was seventy-ninth), strength and positivity is universally appreciated, making him very much the domestique’s domestique. A team player who acts as a big brother to many of BMC’s younger riders, ‘Quincy’ also boasts the levelheadedness to study for a law degree during the off-season at Trento University.

In a newspaper column during Evans’s victorious Tour, Quinziato described his principal role as ‘making sure [our] leader is in the right place’ and anticipating the crosswinds that ‘can lead to a tricky situation’. He explained how he used his experience in the often wet and windy Belgian one-day races to ensure that Evans kept out of trouble during the Tour’s testing opening week in Brittany. ‘Who better than us, solid 80 kilo “spring classics” riders, to do the work to keep the team leader safe?’ he mused.

So effective was Quinziato that Evans once admitted that it was the Italian over anyone else who had the ‘biggest influence on my results’. When the Australian decided to forego the Tour to race the Giro in 2014, Quinziato’s name was first alongside his on the team sheet. So while Quinziato was present in BMC’s Tour squad when Tejay van Garderen finished fifth and Evans seventh in 2013, he was recovering ahead of the Vuelta, and not riding his ninth Tour, when the American secured another top five finish in 2014. Present on both occasions—and in every Tour since joining BMC in 2010—was German powerhouse Marcus Burghardt, another dependable road captain.

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