Standings after week 2
General classification:
- Del Toro (🇲🇽 UAE)
- Ayuso (🇪🇸 UAE) at 1’13’’
- Tiberi (🇮🇹 Bahrain) at 1’30’’
- Carapaz (🇪🇨 EF) at 1’40’’
- Ciccone (🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek) at 1’41’’
- S. Yates (🇬🇧 Visma) at 1’42’’
- Bernal (🇨🇴 Ineos) at 1’57’’
- McNulty (🇺🇸 UAE) at 1’59’’
- A. Yates (🇬🇧 UAE) at 2’01’’
- Roglitch (🇸🇮 Bora) at 2’25’’
Mountain classification:
- Fortunato (🇮🇹 Astana) 98 pts
- Ayuso (🇪🇸 UAE) 50
- Double (🇬🇧 Jayco) 36
- Tarozzi (🇮🇹 Bardiani) 32
- Del Toro (🇲🇽 UAE) 25
Points classification:
- Pedersen (🇩🇰 Lidl-Trek) 153 pts
- Tonelli (🇮🇹 Polti) 59
- Kooij (🇳🇱 Visma) 55
- Van Uden (🇳🇱 Picnic) 50
- Van Aert (🇧🇪 Visma) 43
Intermediary sprints:
- Tonellii (🇮🇹 Polti) 59 pts
- Van der Hoorn (🇳🇱 Intermarché) 34
- Pedersen (🇩🇰 Lidl-Trek) 31
- De Bondt (🇧🇪 Decathlon) 29
- Tarozzi (🇮🇹 Bardiani) 26
Breakaways:
- Tonellii (🇮🇹 Polti) 368 km
- Van der Hoorn (🇳🇱 Intermarché) 285
- Tarozzi (🇮🇹 Bardiani) 278
Redbull KM:
- Tarozzi (🇮🇹 Bardiani) 30 pts
- Del Toro (🇲🇽 UAE) 23
- Tonellii (🇮🇹 Polti) 19
Teams:
- UAE
- Lidl-Trek at 12’15’’
- Visma at 12’49’
- Ineos, Astana & Bahrain at 15-16 mn
Yeah but you still have to leave it to bora/uae to do the chase. Wasting energy that could be used later
Used when?
Dunno. Breakaway in later stages… get your TV time later in the race, not pulling 2 teams with more to lose and motivation to pull… Either way, seems like a waste of energy for no gain
Maybe i play too much pro cycling manager trying to conserve the green energy bar
Yeah… well, it is going to become harder to get in breakaways, from now on, so I am not sure they can join anyway. However, the first quarter/third of these mountain stages will still often be relatively flat and host 1 or 2 intermediate sprints that can interest Polti, so they should indeed try to break away. Yesterday, a couple of their riders just worked a few miles (altogether, the crash was about 22 km from the finish) and Monday is a rest day, it shouldn’t have serious consequences on the future of the team.
During the Tour of Abruzzi, I had noticed that the Polti team liked to pull in the last 10 miles of the race when they had a numerous presence ahead, instead of letting UAE work. Yet in the final walls, none of their riders were in top-10… So it was a bit weird already, especially as it happened the same way (pulling when UAE could have done it + failing in the last km).