Former Belgian road race champion Yves Lampaert said he is ready to seize any opportunity to help his Detuninck-Quick-Step teammates win this season, although he hopes he can help them win.

Speaking to the Belgian press at the team's training camp in Calpe, Spain, on Friday, Lampaert said he does not expect things to change much with Philippe Gilbert's move to Lotto Soudal for 2020, the first Tour de Julien Alaphilippe, who will compete in Flanders, said he believes he is the team's brightest star.

"We have won a lot of victories with this team and that is the most important thing," Lampert said, according to Het Nieuwsblad. 'It doesn't matter to me who wins.'

"Sometimes you are limited by the team's tactics. With a team like Detunink Quickstep, you sometimes have to sacrifice yourself for the team.

"2020 will be no different, and I'm someone who has no problem with that," continues the 28-year-old, who in 2019 won the individual time trial stage of the Tour de Suisse and the overall at the Tour of Slovakia, as well as Paris-Roubaix winner and teammate Gilbert and Nils Pollitt of Katusha, and was second behind Italy's Elia Viviani in the European Championships road race.

"My teammates have thanked me a lot for my attitude and my work ethic. Everyone knows that I am a true team player. Of course, as a rider I like to win myself, but I know those opportunities will come," said Lampaert, who also won the Belgian "semi-classic" Dwar door Hlaanderen twice, in 2017 and 2018, and will win the title for the third time in 2020 If there was a possibility, he said, "I wouldn't say no." [Lampert said of Gilbert's move to Lot Soudal, "I don't think Phil's move will affect me. I am already on the same level as the rest of the team and I hope that the pieces of the puzzle will fit together again to win. If not, I hope the team wins."

At last year's Tour of Flanders, Detunink-Quick Step teammate Caspar Asgreen finished second behind EF Education First's Alberto Bettiol.

This year, however, team talisman Julien Alaphilippe will take on the first round of the famous Flanders Classic.

"We will have a very strong team in Flanders again this year," Lampert said.

As for Alaphilippe, Lampère believes the Frenchman will be able to adapt quickly to the demands of the cobblestones and steep Hellingen race.

"Yes - I think he can join the championship contenders in Flanders right away. He's such a classy rider that he was able to win Strade Bianche on his first attempt (in 2019), and riders like Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin Phoenix) and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) were competitive on their first attempt in Flanders last season.

"Julien is just as good and talented as they are.