Fabian Cancellara who started his spring campaign with a victory at Strade Bianche, wants to have a great last season in the peloton. At this moment, he has won seven monuments (three Paris-Roubaix, three Tour of Flanders and one Milano-Sanremo). 

"Who has won more classics than me? Merckx, Hinault. That makes me happy," Cancellara told L'Équipe. The Swiss has, in fact, won more Monuments than Bernard Hinault (five only), but fewer than Eddy Merckx, Roger De Vlaeminck, Costante Girardengo, Fausto Coppi, Sean Kelly and Rik Van Looy. "All of that's in my pocket… But there's still a little bit of space in that pocket. San Remo, Flanders, Roubaix – it's not a secret, I want to win them this year. I want to go down in history."

He explains that he would have liked to win all five monuments, but he never started Liège-Bastogne-liège and the Tour of Lombardy. Finally, he admits that he will never win these races. "At one point, I'd said I could win them all, but I spoke about it with Michele Bartoli and he said to me: 'I was never world champion, but you know, it didn't change my life…' Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour of Lombardy are impossible with my weight and I didn't want to slim down to try to win them. I found my territory, and it didn't encompass the Grand Tours, Liège or Lombardy."

He explained that he has had some difficult moments in his career. In 2010, former cyclist Davide Cassani claimed in a YouTube video that Cancellara had used a motorized bike during his victories at the Tour of Flanders and the Paris–Roubaix that year.

"I decided to look on the positive side. When I realised that thousands of people were watching videos of my attacks, I said to myself: 'I'm strangely popular…' And I took it as a compliment that people thought I needed to motor. Because the motor, I have it in my legs. Sometimes, when it's not going well in a race, I say to the others: 'Shit, today my motor is broken", he concluded.