Welcome to Maastricht for the second hilly classic of the season.
It's a tough classic, and today's favourite is none other than Tirreno-Ariatico winner Frank Schleck. He'll be looking to put in a solid performance, but will face tough competition in the form of Paolo Bettini, who recently came second in the Milano-Sanremo.
Unfortunately, I've accidentally deleted all the screenshots, so the race report isn't very good
The control teams all featured in the early break, which was controlled by Caisse and Bouygues Telecom. When caught, a small front group remained, which then suprisingly split, leaving Frank Schleck and Paolo Bettini behind, who were strangely struggling. Milram then hit the front to maintain the gap, but unfortunately all their riders blew up in the process, leaving a very surprising 8 to fight it out at the finish. Filippo Pozzato was the strongest to take yet another victory, in a very surprising result:
1
Filippo Pozzato
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
5h48'50
2
Fabian Cancellara
BOUYGUES TELECOM
s.t.
3
Xavier Florencio
BOUYGUES TELECOM
s.t.
4
Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
s.t.
5
Anthony Geslin
BOUYGUES TELECOM
s.t.
6
Constantino Zaballa
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
s.t.
7
Rubens Bertogliati
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
s.t.
8
Felix Cardénas
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
s.t.
9
Frank Schleck
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
+ 2'29
10
Cristian Moreni
COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE
s.t.
11
Staf Scheirlinckx
COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE
s.t.
12
Pierrick Fédrigo
BOUYGUES TELECOM
s.t.
13
Levi Leipheimer
TEAM MILRAM
s.t.
14
Michael Rogers
TEAM MILRAM
s.t.
15
Maxime Monfort
COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE
s.t.
16
Iñigo Cuesta
TEAM CSC
s.t.
17
Paolo Tiralongo
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
s.t.
18
Romain Feillu
TEAM CSC
s.t.
19
José Serpa
TEAM MILRAM
s.t.
20
Piotr Mazur
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
s.t.
21
Luca Paolini
LIQUIGAS
+ 7'29
22
Marcus Burghardt
TEAM MILRAM
s.t.
23
Alessandro Ballan
TEAM CSC
s.t.
24
Axel Merckx
T-MOBILE TEAM
s.t.
25
Patxi Vila
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
s.t.
26
Giuliano Figueras
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
s.t.
27
Patrik Sinkewitz
BOUYGUES TELECOM
s.t.
28
Jakob Piil
T-MOBILE TEAM
s.t.
29
Martin Elmiger
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
s.t.
30
Brian Vandborg
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
31
Jason McCartney
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
32
Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
+ 11'55
33
Sergei Ivanov
COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE
s.t.
34
Cadel Evans
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
s.t.
35
Gerrit Glomser
TEAM CSC
s.t.
36
Peter Van Petegem
T-MOBILE TEAM
s.t.
37
Paolo Savoldelli
LIQUIGAS
s.t.
38
Linus Gerdemann
T-MOBILE TEAM
s.t.
39
Ryder Hesjedal
LIQUIGAS
s.t.
40
Mauricio Soler
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
s.t.
41
Mauro Facci
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
s.t.
42
Benoît Vaugrenard
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
s.t.
43
Matteo Tosatto
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
s.t.
44
Aleksandr Kuchinski
LIQUIGAS
s.t.
45
Candido Barbosa
TEAM MILRAM
+ 15'40
46
Björn Schröder
TEAM MILRAM
s.t.
47
Philippe Gilbert
TEAM CSC
s.t.
48
Paolo Bettini
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
+ 19'46
49
José Vicente Garcia Acosta
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
s.t.
50
Rik Verbrugghe
COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE
s.t.
51
Servais Knaven
T-MOBILE TEAM
s.t.
52
Marcus Ljungqvist
TEAM CSC
s.t.
53
Stef Clement
BOUYGUES TELECOM
s.t.
54
Trent Lowe
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
55
Mathieu Perget
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
s.t.
56
Egoi Martínez de Esteban
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
57
Christophe Detilloux
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
s.t.
58
Eric Baumann
T-MOBILE TEAM
s.t.
59
Bernhard Eisel
T-MOBILE TEAM
s.t.
60
Sandy Casar
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
s.t.
61
Ruben Elvira Lobato
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
s.t.
62
Juri Krivtsov
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
s.t.
63
Remmert Wielinga
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
s.t.
64
Francis Mourey
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
s.t.
65
David Loosli
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
s.t.
66
Oscar Freire
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
+ 24'06
67
Cédric Vasseur
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
s.t.
68
Ludovic Turpin
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
s.t.
69
Renaud Dion
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
s.t.
70
Ludovic Auger
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
s.t.
71
Kim Kirchen
T-MOBILE TEAM
s.t.
72
Lorenzo Bernucci
T-MOBILE TEAM
s.t.
73
Sylvain Chavanel
COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE
s.t.
74
Giovanni Visconti
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
s.t.
75
Sylvain Calzati
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
s.t.
76
Jelle Vanendert
LIQUIGAS
s.t.
77
Roman Kreuziger
LIQUIGAS
s.t.
78
Addy Engels
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
s.t.
79
Chris Anker Sørensen
TEAM CSC
s.t.
80
Bart Wellens
BOUYGUES TELECOM
s.t.
81
Andreas Klier
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
+ 27'23
82
Bram Tankink
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
s.t.
83
Andy Schleck
LIQUIGAS
s.t.
84
Carlos Barredo
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
s.t.
85
Mirko Lorenzetto
TEAM MILRAM
s.t.
86
Wladimir Gustov
TEAM CSC
s.t.
87
Christophe Mengin
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
s.t.
88
Hubert Schwab
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
s.t.
89
Nick Nuyens
TEAM MILRAM
s.t.
90
Luca Mazzanti
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
s.t.
91
José Ivan Gutiérrez Palacios
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
s.t.
92
Thomas Voeckler
BOUYGUES TELECOM
s.t.
93
Thomas Lövkvist
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
s.t.
94
Pavel Padrnos
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
95
Jérôme Pineau
BOUYGUES TELECOM
+ 31'50
96
Koldo Gil
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
s.t.
97
Leonardo Bertagnolli
LIQUIGAS
s.t.
98
Claudio Corioni
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
s.t.
99
Uros Murn
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
100
Hubert Dupont
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
s.t.
101
Juan José Cobo
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
s.t.
102
Jürgen Van de Walle
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
s.t.
103
Matej Jurco
TEAM MILRAM
s.t.
And no, I did not control the Bouygues team, I nearly fell over when they somehow managed to stay up front
Edited by Roman on 16-10-2016 12:45
