Team dsm-firmenich PostNL coach Roy Curvers: “Nokere Koerse is a traditional cobbled sprint race between some of the bigger classics. It is known for the finish on the iconic cobbled Nokereberg. In the final, timing and positioning are really important to achieve a good result. With Fabio we have a former winner in the team who knows how to do all this and take the win, but before coming into the last 500 metres we have a challenging parcours where we have to be on it for the whole day, because there are still a lot of opportunities for surprises.”