CCC Team head to the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya on Monday with no clear contender for the overall classification. Instead, they`ll rely on a number of riders to try to take stage wins at the seven-day Spanish race. With no Greg Van Avermaet on the roster - who next races at the E3 BinckBank Classic on Friday - the team will be looking in the direction of their only other race winner this season, Patrick Bevin, who won the New Zealand national time trial title at the start of the year, ahead of taking a stage at the Tour Down Under. A crash on the penultimate stage of the UAE Tour at the start of March has kept him out of competition for the past three weeks, but Bevin has been training hard, and said on the team`s website that he`s ready to race this week.ADVERTISEMENT `I feel like my form is good, and I hope to target some of the sprinter-friendlier stages,` Bevin said. `It`s never an easy feat at Catalunya, as the parcours is so hilly. It`s the first race of a three-tour series for me, so I`m really looking forward to what is a busy spring ahead,` he said, referring to his upcoming programme that also includes the Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco and the Tour de Romandie in April. Teammate Joey Rosskopf hopes that, as a resident of Girona, his local knowledge of the Catalan roads will play to his advantage this week.
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