In road cycling, almost every rider shared one common understanding:
Whoever was the strongest on the team was the team's core leader.
Though Wang Qiang and the other two felt helpless, they had to admit that in less than a month since meeting Huang Chong, he had gone from being weaker than them at the start to being able to blow all of them off the road on any terrain.
While an FTP advantage was determined by both natural talent and acquired effort, for most ordinary riders, natural talent was undoubtedly more important.
Huang Chong possessed exceptional cycling talent, and Wang Qiang's group knew that perfectly well.
After all, when Zhang Yi said the night before that Huang Chong was exceptionally gifted, he had not avoided saying it in front of them. Before going to sleep, Zhang Yi had even directly explained that the team's tactics for this race would revolve around Huang Chong as the core leader.
To be honest, Huang Chong was quite surprised by the tactical plan Zhang Yi had made.
He knew his own strength well. He was far stronger than Wang Qiang's group, needless to say, but compared with Zhang Yi himself on flat stages, there was still a gap of several dozen watts.
Besides, over the past few days, he had not had time to go to the gym and complete the muscle-building tasks the system had continuously issued before, so his sprinting ability was still lacking.
If it came down to the final sprint, he definitely would not be able to beat Zhang Yi.
Because of that, he had even mentally prepared himself to work for Zhang Yi. He had assumed Zhang Yi would be the core leader in this race.
But since Zhang Yi had voluntarily made him the leader, there was