After a tough summer suffering through the Tour de France, Sam Bennett ended his season on a high note when he won Paris-Bourges. The Irishman on Bora-Argon 18 says he is feeling so good that he wishes the season wasn’t over.

"I've got such good form that I'm a bit disappointed that the season is over and I wish that there was another couple of months," he told Cyclingnews.

Bennett says he isn’t just pleased to have won five races this year, but that he has also been consistently up there fighting for wins from the Tour of Qatar all the way to Paris-Bourges.

"In other years, I never really got the consistency that I wanted or needed and it's something that I always wanted to work on," he explained. "When I did win is was always in close space, when I had a bit of form and I didn't win at other times of the year. I look and think about what makes a good sprinter and they have to be able to get results all season long, when they're feeling good and when they're feeling bad. This year I was able to get results at different points of the year and that made me really happy."

Now the Irishman, 24, wants to take his big wins and performances and transfer them to the WorldTour level, to prove he is one of the best sprinters in the world. 

"I'd like to perform in WorldTour races and get some results there. Each year I get better results and a higher standard of race but I think WorldTour is where it's at. You need to perform there to be a world class sprinter and that's what I'm aiming for," Bennett explained. "The team is still developing, we're a young team and we're getting better at lead-outs and I think that will help us get more results I think. Hopefully I can get more wins than this year."