Tyler Farrar, who forms part of Mark Cavendish’s leadout train at Dimension Data, is confident the Brit can win multiple stages at this year’s Tour de France.

“Does he still have it? Totally he does,” Farrar told VeloNews. “He is still pretty damn fast and he still wins a lot of races.”

American Farrar, 31, was one of Cavendish’s great rivals before focusing less on sprints and more on the Classics. He firmly believes Cavendish can still be very successful despite the likes of Andre Greipel and Marcel Kittel.

“The landscape of professional sprinting has changed. That being said, there’s no doubt in my mind that he’s going to at least win a couple of stages at the Tour.”

“In every sprint you do now, there are eight or 10 guys who are generally fast enough to win, and are supported by a true lead-out train, which also wasn’t that way in the past. Now you have Giant, Katusha, Lampre, Tinkoff, us … And now all the GC leaders want a good lead-out train in the final kilometers of grand tours, too. It’s really changed the dynamic of field sprints.”