While Tour de France gets underway, Tinkoff-Saxo embarks on another mountainous race - the Tour of Austria - where Robert Kiserlovski will lead a squad of climbers in an effort to fight for the top spots of the GC podium. Bruno Cenghialta asserts that the team will come into play, when the road kicks up.
 
When Tinkoff-Saxo starts the nine-stage Tour of Austria today, it will be with Robert Kiserlovski as team captain flanked by Pawel Poljanski, says Bruno Cenghialta, Tinkoff-Saxo sports director.
 
“Robert Kiserlovski and Pawel Poljanski are in very good shape. Robert told me that he believes that he can fight for the podium places, and I agree that it’s doable. In the end, it would be a good result, as Tour of Austria is a very hard race looking at the stages the riders will face. We have a strong team, mainly in the mountains, and we will be able to support Kiserlovski on the climbs, while a guy like Chris Anker Sørensen will get an opportunity to go for it”, comments Bruno Cenghialta.
 
Tinkoff-Saxo lines up Robert Kiserlovski, Pawel Poljanski, Chris Anker Sørensen, Evgeny Petrov, Jesus Hernandez, Bruno Pires, Jesper Hansen and Oliver Zaugg.

The riders of this year’s 67th edition of Tour of Austria will face a versatile race route starting with a 5.4km TTT, while the later part of the race will offer serious mountain stage such as on stage 4 and 6, where the road kicks up.
 
“First up, we have a very short team time trial of just 5.4 kilometers. It’s a very fast parcours so if we stay in the top ten, I’ll be satisfied, as our team consists of mainly climbers. Then the first three stages are for the sprinters, where we will try to consume as little energy as possible. Perhaps we will seek to get in the breakaway, but our ambitions lie further ahead in the race”, says Bruno Cenghialta before adding:
 
“Stage 4 and 6 are real mountain stages and this is where the boys must perform. We will take it day by day to evaluate the situation and see how we are placed in the general classification. It’s the first race for Jesper Hansen after his crash in Dauphiné and the second race for Oliver Zaugg after his bad crash in April, so they will use the shape to get into race rhythm, while the other guys are ready to go out and perform”, finishes Bruno Cenghialta.