Mitchelton-Scott`s Simon Yates will begin his season at the 2019 Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista del Sol - also known simply as the Ruta del Sol - on Wednesday, and will be joined by his brother Adam, Esteban Chaves and Jack Haig at the mountainous five-day Spanish stage race. While Adam Yates started his season in early February at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, where he took victory on the race`s `queen stage`, Simon - winner of the 2018 Vuelta a Espaņa - will begin his build-up for May`s Giro d`Italia at the Ruta del Sol, which his Mitchelton-Scott team have never participated at before. Simon Yates` last completed race was that overall Vuelta victory in Madrid last September, as he didn`t finish at either the Worlds road race or the Giro dell`Emilia, which was his last race in early October.ADVERTISEMENT It`s for that reason that Simon says he`ll play a support role to Adam and their teammate Jack Haig, with the Australian having also ridden a good Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana to finish seventh overall. Esteban Chaves, meanwhile, used the same race to return to racing for the first time since last May`s Giro, having been struck down with mononucleosis in the meantime. `I`m looking forward to starting racing again,` said Simon Yates on his team`s website. `It`s a new race for me, so I`m looking forward to that, and I know some of the roads quite well around Granada, so that also helps. But really I`m just ready to start racing again.
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