Strade Bianche is the youngest race on the calendar and already one of the most coveted, proof that you do not need a century of history to matter. It has been run since 2007 on the white gravel roads of the Tuscan crete senesi, throwing the peloton across sector after sector of dust and mud before a savage finish up the ramps into Siena's medieval Piazza del Campo. Riders and organisers have pushed for years to crown it the sixth Monument, and on the quality of its racing alone it has earned the argument. Fabian Cancellara made the race his own with three wins and became the first rider to have a gravel sector named in his honour. Michał Kwiatkowski later matched that mark. Pogačar's 2022 victory, a fifty-kilometre solo, is the template the whole peloton now fears, and he produced it again in 2026.