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We drive in convoy with the other GBCT vehicles towards the<br />
start town of Doncaster. In the driver’s seat is of course Matt, with<br />
me (feeling important) riding shotgun. Behind Matt sits the team’s<br />
road captain Dan McLay, on loan from UCI WorldTour outfit EF<br />
Education First. At first I’m not entirely sure who is sat next to Dan<br />
in the back. I think to myself that it could be the young Scot Sean<br />
Flynn, but he was especially quiet - perhaps nervous ahead of the<br />
big race, or maybe just going through his own private pre-race<br />
routine. The in-car chat between Brammeier and McLay catches<br />
me a little off guard, but perhaps I should know better. Matt is<br />
explaining to Dan some half-baked theory on how the Amazon<br />
rainforest only produces enough oxygen to maintain the animal<br />
life forms that live within the Amazon rainforest, and how in return<br />
the animal life forms that inhabit the Amazon rainforest create<br />
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