The South American riders are not exactly punchers, so this long hilly circuit will surely be very open.
Manarelli, Tanaka, R.Richeze, César Rojas Villegas and Médici make the break in this long day.
One of them will win this race as their gap to the peloton is 15 minutes with 50km to the end. With this, C. Rojas Villegas will surely be the Costa Rica champion, but the other four will have to battle to win their national championships (Brazilian and Argentinian).
20km to go and C. Rojas Villegas was dropped. There were no attacks so far in the leading group.
5km to the line and Manarelli, the best sprinter in the group, is leading.
And he is leading over the line, victory for Manarelli! He is the new Brazilian champion. Roberto Richeze gets the second place and, with it, the Argentinian champioship. Will he get a team for the next season? Médici closes the podium and Tanaka closes the group.
César Rojas Villegas comes after this group but as the better Costa Rican, he is the new champion of that country.
Horacio Gallardo comes in the pack, but he is the first Bolivian at the finish, meaning that this free agent is the new Bolivian champion.
Race Classifications:
1
Carlos Alexandre Manarelli
Virgin Media - Caisse d'Epargne
6h54'20
2
Roberto Antonio Richeze
Argentina
s.t.
3
Matías Médici
Team Ultra Adventure Pro Cycling - Sponsored by Hello Kitty
s.t.
4
Ivan Luís Tanaka
Brazil
s.t.
5
César Rojas Villegas
American Suzuki
+ 4'43
6
Maximiliano Richeze
Wii Racing
+ 7'54
7
Murilo Fischer
Nespresso - SportZone
s.t.
8
Pedro Nicácio
Team Energie - Diesel
s.t.
9
Alex Diniz
Nvidia Intel
+ 9'04
10
Mauro Richeze
Nespresso - SportZone
+ 10'08
11
Luciano Pagliarini
Nespresso - SportZone
+ 14'49
12
Magno Nazaret
Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin
+ 15'23
13
Andrei Amador
White Bear - Wild Horse
s.t.
14
Ruben Bongiorno
Molteni
+ 17'32
15
Horacio Gallardo
International Cycling
s.t.
16
Juan José Haedo
BMC Racing Team
s.t.
17
Juan Carlos Rojas Villegas
Costa Rica
s.t.
18
Raúl Turano
Team Starbucks
s.t.
19
Alejandro Borrajo
Sony Ericsson
s.t.
20
Óscar Solis
Unicef RT
s.t.
21
Nilceu Santos
Brazil
s.t.
22
Juan Pablo Araya
Costa Rica
s.t.
23
Anibal Borrajo
Argentina
s.t.
24
Gabriel Brizuela
Lipton Ice Tea
s.t.
25
Yamil Montaño
Team Ultra Adventure Pro Cycling - Sponsored by Hello Kitty
Raabe is an early starter and possibly a contender to be the TT champion of Costa Rica.
That was a silly thought. Andrei Amador comes and smashes Raabe's time by 1'30''. He is the new Costa Rican TT champion.
Montaño is not a good TT'er. Still, he is the best of his country, Bolivia.
Four riders are good enough to fight for the title of ITT champion of Argentina. One of them is Médici, 1'14'' worse than Amador.
Dotti is 14 seconds faster than Médici.
Brizuela comes shortly after and beats Dotti by 6 seconds.
But Moyano wins the title, beating Brizuela by 23 seconds but still losing 42 seconds to Amador.
Amador doesn't win the race, though. Nicácio smashes his time by 55 seconds and is the new Brazilian TT champion, beating the second Brazilian, Luis Tavares, a free agent, by 1'49''.
Race Classification:
1
Pedro Nicácio
Team Energie - Diesel
1h06'17
2
Andrei Amador
White Bear - Wild Horse
+ 55
3
Luis Moyano
Argentina
+ 1'37
4
Luis Tavares
Brazil
+ 1'49
5
Gabriel Brizuela
Lipton Ice Tea
+ 1'54
6
Juan Pablo Dotti
Argentina
+ 2'00
7
Matías Médici
Team Ultra Adventure Pro Cycling - Sponsored by Hello Kitty
+ 2'14
8
Henry Raabe
Costa Rica
+ 2'25
9
Magno Nazaret
Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin
+ 2'27
10
Gerardo Fernandez
THE CONTROL TEAM
+ 2'30
11
Alex Diniz
Nvidia Intel
s.t.
12
Yamil Montaño
Team Ultra Adventure Pro Cycling - Sponsored by Hello Kitty