After two years within the WorldTour, Cameron Scott has been one of many many riders who’ve needed to reassess in 2025 after the contract shuffle didn’t go their method, however whereas the 27-year-old is pragmatic in regards to the probabilities of rekindling his future within the prime tier on the highway he has removed from misplaced his focus, it has simply been diverted.
“It’s not the perfect state of affairs, however you realize generally it simply goes like that,” Scott stated of his lack of WorldTour contract instructed Cyclingnews after delivering a powerful second place on the Melbourne to Warrnambool as he raced with the CCache x Bodywrap Continental staff.
It was a race he received in 2022, serving to launch the season that secured him the two-year cope with Bahrain Victorious for 2023 and 2024, and whereas the circumstances are totally different there isn’t any query that he’d prefer to as soon as once more discover a path again to the WorldTour.
“It’s simply the best way the game’s going in the mean time, it is getting youthful and youthful and the older you get the more durable it’s to maintain your contract so I simply have to simply accept that and take what I can get,” Scott stated in Warrnambool after the 267km race, which was this yr included within the ProVelo SuperLeague.
The race was on the finish of an preliminary highway race block that had began with a second place within the criterium on the AusCycling Road National Championships and a fourth on the lead-in race to the Tour Down Under, the Villawood Men’s Classic, as he raced with the Australian nationwide staff. After spending the beginning of the yr on the highway Scott was turning his consideration to a different self-discipline, one from his previous.
“I’ll be doing a little bit of observe racing. I have never achieved it for a few years, so to to get again on the observe and form of discover that love for it once more,” stated Scott, who added that he can be driving on the Team Pursuit squad, with a watch to the World Championships later this yr, the Commonwealth Games and possibly even the subsequent Olympics.
Scott was a part of the Australian 2019 Team Pursuit staff that received a world title and re-entered the world on the Oceania Track Cycling Championships final week by claiming the title with Liam Walsh, Oscar Gallagher and Declan Tresize.
“I nonetheless love the game,” stated, Scott who may also be persevering with to race on the highway domestically and in Asia with CCache x Bodywrap this season. “I’m probably not able to cease but, so I’m nonetheless making an attempt.”
