Originally Posted by
Dave Mayer
The reason for the fast speeds again is Van der Poel, Van Aert, and Pog all pulling out all of the stops in a generational contest of wills. So the pro teams assembled and sacrificed their best riders to drive the pace, and unlike almost all previous contest, the teams did not sandbag for the first 100 or 200km, but went full-gas right out of the start.
So, your theory is that this Paris-Roubaix was faster than previous races because the riders all rode really fast. As the Brits say …Brilliant!