“I'm seventh now on GC so I'm really happy but as a team we've done everything as we should. We had some bad luck but if you look at the bigger picture now our whole Tour has been a success. We've won four stages. Of course yesterday was The Epic stage and we were happy about it but today even more because Matteo is such a great guy and he won from a breakaway so it's an amazing day for us.
“Matteo and I are almost the same age, he's one year older but we know each other well and he's a really friendly guy and I'm really happy about his win.
“About Ventoux... I know Sylwester Szmyd won there one time during the [Critérium du] Dauphiné. What else can I say about it? I'll try and stay with the best but it's such a legendary mountain that I'm a little bit scared about it but we'll see how I can go...”
