Team dsm-firmenich PostNL coach Matt Winston: “Following on from our time in Québec, we head to Montréal for the second race in Canada. With Friday’s race suiting the puncheurs and sprinters more, the circuit around Montréal is much harder and contains over 4200 metres of climbing throughout the afternoon, favouring the climbers and puncheurs. This lends itself to harder and more aggressive racing so with our group we have here, we want to also animate the race and make sure we are in any dangerous attacks so we can race from the front. Hopefully this then gives us numbers at the head of the race so we can play our cards as things unfold in the final through some good teamwork.”