Tiesj Benoot (BEL/Lotto-Soudal) & Jasper De Buyst (BEL/Lotto-Soudal) over the cobbles of sector 12: Orchies (1.7km).
Benoot crashed heavily just a few days earlier in De Ronde van Vlaanderen (where they feared for the end of his spring campaign at first), but stubbornly insisted he'd ride the Roubaix recon to see if he'd be fit enough for the upcoming sunday.
His team manager Marc Sergeant was baffled by his hardness claiming he 'never saw anybody like him'

recon of the 114th Paris - Roubaix