Mistakes are common for neo pros, but 22-year-old Jonas Lutsch made what has been described as a "schoolboy error" that cost him any chance of victory in Saturday's Omloop Het Newsblad.

The German, who turned pro from EF Pro Cycling at the beginning of this year, made the decisive move when he went clear with 75km to go, along with Jasper Steiven, Yves Lampère, and five others.

However, just 15km later, he suffered an unexpected crash, forcing him to fall back into the pack while his former colleagues cleared to share the victory.

"It was a stupid mistake on my part. It wasn't the legs, it wasn't the mechanics, it was just a mistake," Lucci told Cycling News at the finish in Ninove.

"I don't want to explain it now, but it was a mistake and it won't happen again. So I've already learned from my mistake and that's it."

Team director Andreas Kreier later explained that Rucci tried to take off his rain cape, but it didn't work. When he tried to take off his jacket, he opened up a gap with the other seven guys, and when he took it off he couldn't close that gap."

"He was not able to get his jacket off."

"He was not able to get his jacket on.

"I didn't know it at the time, but I heard about it 15 minutes ago. Apparently he was trying to take his jacket off and it was obviously a crosswind.

"He's from amateur cycling and it's his first classic. He's from amateur cycling, it's his first classic, and the race was over in 15 meters."

"He was in the middle of the race, and he was in the middle of the race, and he was in the middle of the race.

Rucci returned to the main peloton and attempted to pull EF leaders Sepp Vanmarcke and Jens Keukerer to the front of the race. Vanmarcke attempted a counter attack and finished in 23rd place, his team's best finish.

The fact that the group he was in was able to escape to the finish was clearly a source of frustration, but Lucci did not blame himself too much.

"I was in the group, I had good legs at that moment, and I was in control.

"I'm a neo-pro and it's normal to make mistakes. The most important thing is that you learn from your mistakes and I will learn from mine."

Krier emphasized that young riders must be given room to make mistakes and learn from them.

"I wasn't angry. He is 21 years old and maybe the light switch has been turned on. But now he sees things a little differently. It's not like we lost the bike race because he wasn't in the group anymore. The race is over and probably the best rider won.

"I told him, 'You have to learn these things. At this level, you make one mistake and you get punished immediately. Who knows how far he could have gone, but I'm not losing a millisecond of sleep over it."

Krier assured that Lucci, who won last year's U23 Ghent-Wevelgem and is expected by coach Jonathan Vaughters to be a future Paris-Roubaix champion, has a bright future in the classics.

The 22-year-old himself will not have to dwell on his mistakes for long, as he will try again on Sunday in Coure Brussel-Coulomb.

"Tomorrow is another day and we will try again," Lucci said.