Victor Campenaerts gave a swearing colleague a taste of his own medicine: “Get a grip on the wheel, you idiot!”

Sunday wasn’t a day for Victor Campenaerts and Brent Van Moer. The Lotto Dstny riders didn’t play a major role in the gravel stage, but they had a nice story to tell about their time in the group. The duo share their story in a delicious video.

Campenaerts and Van Moer ended up in a chase group 130 kilometres from the finish, after several riders had to put their feet up on a cobblestone descent. They thought the race was over, but they were lucky because the classification leader was also delayed. The rider’s team then did everything they could to bring their leader back to the front.

Campinaerts wanted to contribute, but it wasn’t appreciated by everyone. When there was a hole in the forehead and Fox mustache If this didn’t close, he hit one of the classification riders. The unnamed driver shouted: “Get the wheel, you idiot.” Then Campenaerts decided not to participate anymore. Together with Van Moer, he sat at the wheel of the classification team for an hour. “The rooster’s head stopped turning,” he laughs. Campy in the video.

taste your medicine
On one of the slopes, the team leader tried to jump forward. Campenaerts and Van Moer were “dead in the wheel”, according to the latter. Only at that moment did the rider who was cursing have to leave. “So what does he say? Campy“Van Muir gives the cross. Campenaerts: “Grab the wheel, you fool!”

The knight in question can’t help laughing at that. “It was right under the belt, but I couldn’t miss it,” laughs Campinaerts. “It wasn’t meant in a bad way towards that knight, definitely not, but in the heat of battle things happen. Even in the grupetto.