Road warrior Matt Brammeier set for return after six months out

Matt Brammeier will race for the first time since his horror crash at the Tour of Utah last year when he goes to the line as part of the Dimension Data squad for tomorrow’s Trofeo Felanitx and Friday’s Trofeo Port de Pollenca Andratx in Majorca.

The four-time Irish national road race champion suffered three rib fractures on both sides, a punctured lung as well as broken sacral and pelvic bones when he collided with a moving car while on a sharp descent during stage six of the American stage race last August.

“I’m excited to get going, and not really nervous at all,” he said about the six-month layoff.