Luke Lamperti on opening weekend of the Belgian Classics and chasing marginal gains

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Payson McElveen

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🗓️ 8 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The last time we spoke to Luke Lamperti was two years ago, when he was just starting out as a WorldTour neo-pro with Quick-Step. This year, he’s switched to EF and has already racked up some impressive finishes. In fact, Payson ran into him just a day after he got back from snagging two top 10s at opening weekend of the Belgian Classics. Luke sat down with Payson to give the inside scoop on those races, as well as the carnage that was last year’s rider market, where he turns for marginal gain...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the WithPace podcast.
0:12.0	Honestly, I think that's one of the scariest ones I've done.
0:14.2	I did it in 24 when we were there with Al-Filippe and my job was to position him into the bottom.
0:24.4	And I was a NeoPro at the time I was 20 or however old and they were like all as you need to do is just bring ala flip here and like top
0:29.7	five like if you bring him here top five for the day job is done I was like yeah guys no worry
0:33.2	that'll be easy no problem it actually went really well we hit it top five and we were smooth
0:36.9	yeah no way I blew up on the climb but We hit it top five and we were smooth. No way.
0:37.7	I blew up on the climb, but we hit it top five.
0:39.4	Yeah.
0:39.5	Yeah.
0:39.5	Yeah.
0:52.7	I was.
0:53.6	I was going to go back from my first race of the year in Morocco, but it's also professional bike racing season. I just got back from my first race of the year in Morocco,
0:55.5	but it's also professional road racing season. And I'm a massive fan. Luckily, I ran into
1:03.5	Luke Lamperti on the Stone Bridge here in Gerona, the day after I got back from Morocco.
1:10.1	It was the day after he got back from opening weekend,
1:12.8	which is Omluppet Newsblad and Kern-Bressels Kern,
1:16.7	which is the traditional opening of the Belgian Spring Classic season.
1:22.6	And it got me thinking because I knew he'd done well.
1:26.6	I wonder if Luke would come back on. He joined us a couple
1:28.8	years ago for the podcast as a Neo Pro. He was just kind of getting his feet under him, but he's now
1:35.7	in year three. He's on a new team. He switched from Quick Step to Team EF. And he's knocking down results.
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