Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) has confirmed that although he will be racing the Abu Dhabi Tour, he will not be leading Trek-Segafredo there: rather his objective is to hone his race form and work for teammate Bauke Mollema. `Of course Bauke will be our leader,` Contador told Spanish newspaper MARCA on Sunday. `I`ll be delighted to help him. The fact that we are both there creates an ideal situation.` Abu Dhabi will be the first time where Mollema and Contador take part as Trek-Segafredo teammates, with Contador explaining to MARCA that although his base form is very good, he needs to hone his top-end form before his first big target of the season, Paris-Nice.ADVERTISEMENT `I`ve felt very good in the Ruta and my race condition is good,` Contador added. `But I need to get sharper form to be able to accelerate hard, and you can only get that by racing, not matter how much you train.` Contador said that the decision to race Abu Dhabi was taken a few days before racing in the Ruta del Sol, `because I`ve done thousands and thousands of metres worth of vertical climbing in training in Tenerife, but nothing behind a motorbike and even better than doing that kind of training behind a motorbike is picking up speed in a race itself.` `We looked at the option of doing some more training, but given the amount of energy I would expend training at high level we decided to go for racing instead.`
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