While Vincenzo Nibali is training on the velodrome in Valencia, Spain prior to starting his 2015 season, his coach Paolo Slongo has ruled out an attempt at the Hour Record.

“I don’t think he’ll ever attempt the Hour Record,” Astana’s head coach, Paolo Slongo told Cycling Weekly. “He’s too skinny to race for the Hour Record.”

“Fausto Coppi did it, but those were different times and he was one of the first. Tony Martin and Brad Wiggins can go for it, above all Wiggins is the one that can make it stick.”

At the 250-metre Palacio Velódromo Luis Puig, Slongo is currently testing Nibali and Fabio Aru, two of the most talented GC riders in the professional peloton.

“We are getting important numbers,” Slongo said. “Specialized has its experts here to help with such things as aerodynamics on the time trial bikes. We can make slight adjustments in their positions that they can work on when they are at home training alone.”