De Jongh to return to team car in February
(Cyclingnews.com)

Trek-Segafredo directeur sportif Steven de Jongh says that he will be back behind the wheel of a team car in a race by the beginning of February. De Jongh is still recovering from the after-effects of a training crash in mid-October but believes his current recovery progress means he will be back in action at the five-day Etoile de Besseges, which starts on February 6. `I think that Etoile de Besseges will be my first race in the team car, but there´s still a big window to there,` De Jongh told Cyclingnews at Trek´s Sicily training camp earlier this week. `It´s progressing now, I don´t think that there is an issue for doing my job when the season starts.`ADVERTISEMENT De Jongh had spoken to some members of the Trek-Segafredo team since the incident but this week provided him with an opportunity to meet up with almost the whole outfit for the first time at their training camp near Syracuse in Sicily. Much of the team arrived in the on Monday and a day of meetings and catch-ups would follow on Tuesday. It gave De Jongh an opportunity to get back to normality. `It´s really nice that things are getting back to normal,` explained De Jongh. `I was quite excited but also a bit nervous to come down because there are so many people. I still struggle a bit with concentration if there are a lot of conversations going on in the room but that has improved a lot over the last 10 days. It was a bit emotional to see everybody again because I´d only seen some of the sports directors and management, but not everybody.` You can read more at Cyclingnews.com