Sprick and Trentin led over the first climb, with Marco Pinotti 3rd, not too far behind. Pinotti would rejoin them soon enough.
The peleton narrowed down to around 36, with Tom Danielson, Sergio Paulinho, Cyril Dessel, Sandy Casar and Kim Kirchen some of the absentees. Caiss d'Epargne seemd to be a having a good day though as their sprinters, and hopeless climbers: Richeze and Perez Arriete, were still in the front group.
There was sad news for Ag2r though as yesterday's crach victim Luca Mazzanti is injured and suffering today, his top 10 finish is slowly slipping away from him.
The break was caught with 27km to go and 13km to the top of the climb. Simoni still fancied his chances of finishing 2nd and launched an attack. When things settled down, he was being chased by Cunego, Piepoli and the surprise package of the Giro: Guerini. Danilo di Luca, to Simoni's delight, was not doing too well:
Simoni led over the summit:
His win was guaranteed but he needed as much time on Di Luca as possible.
Cunego took 2nd, Piepoli 3rd, Guerrini 4th and Di Luca 5th.
Lets not forget Mazzanti, his top 10, and even his top 15 hopes crushed in yesterday's crash:
1
Gilberto Simoni
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
4h24'33
2
Damiano Cunego
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
+ 42
3
Leonardo Piepoli
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
s.t.
4
Giuseppe Guerini
T-MOBILE TEAM
s.t.
5
Danilo Di Luca
ASTANÁ
+ 1'28
6
Andy Schleck
LIQUIGAS
+ 1'56
7
Patxi Vila
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
s.t.
8
Rubén Plaza
BOUYGUES TELECOM
+ 2'47
9
Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
s.t.
10
Ivan Parra Pinto
COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE
s.t.
11
Marzio Bruseghin
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
s.t.
12
Felix Cardénas
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
s.t.
13
José Luis Rubiera
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
14
Pietro Caucchioli
LIQUIGAS
s.t.
15
Vincenzo Nibali
LIQUIGAS
s.t.
16
Vladimir Efimkin
ASTANÁ
s.t.
17
Andrea Tonti
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
s.t.
18
Patrik Sinkewitz
BOUYGUES TELECOM
s.t.
19
Axel Merckx
T-MOBILE TEAM
+ 3'30
20
Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
s.t.
21
Michael Rogers
TEAM MILRAM
s.t.
22
Wladimir Gustov
TEAM CSC
s.t.
23
Dario Cataldo
LIQUIGAS
s.t.
24
Iker Camaño
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
s.t.
25
Tadej Valjavec
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
+ 6'02
26
Alex Ardila Cano
T-MOBILE TEAM
s.t.
27
Joan Horrach
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
s.t.
28
Marco Marzano
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
s.t.
29
Tom Danielson
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
30
Sérgio Paulinho
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
31
Leonardo Bertagnolli
LIQUIGAS
s.t.
32
Xavier Florencio
BOUYGUES TELECOM
s.t.
33
Sylwester Szmyd
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
s.t.
34
Andrei Mizourov
ASTANÁ
s.t.
35
Sandy Casar
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
s.t.
36
Marco Velo
TEAM MILRAM
s.t.
37
Cyril Dessel
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
s.t.
38
Paolo Tiralongo
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
s.t.
39
Rémy Di Gregorio
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
s.t.
40
Paolo Bettini
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
41
Charles Wegelius
LIQUIGAS
s.t.
42
Giuliano Figueras
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
s.t.
43
Kim Kirchen
T-MOBILE TEAM
s.t.
44
Vladimir Miholjevic
LIQUIGAS
s.t.
45
Remmert Wielinga
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
s.t.
46
Thomas Lövkvist
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
s.t.
47
Mauricio Soler
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
+ 8'16
48
Matthieu Sprick
BOUYGUES TELECOM
+ 9'14
49
Addy Engels
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
+ 10'02
50
Nicki Sørensen
TEAM CSC
s.t.
Simoni now leads Di Luca by 40 seconds, can he hold on in tomorrow's 40km time trial? Di Luca needs a second for every kilometre.
1
Damiano Cunego
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
82h33'49
2
Gilberto Simoni
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
+ 2'40
3
Danilo Di Luca
ASTANÁ
+ 3'20
4
Leonardo Piepoli
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
+ 9'40
5
Andy Schleck
LIQUIGAS
+ 12'55
6
Patxi Vila
FRANÇAISE DES JEUX
+ 23'47
7
Giuseppe Guerini
T-MOBILE TEAM
+ 28'49
8
Ivan Parra Pinto
COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE
+ 32'37
9
Rubén Plaza
BOUYGUES TELECOM
+ 33'31
10
Felix Cardénas
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
+ 35'47
11
Pietro Caucchioli
LIQUIGAS
+ 37'46
12
Axel Merckx
T-MOBILE TEAM
+ 38'02
13
Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
+ 39'09
14
Tom Danielson
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
+ 39'11
15
Luca Mazzanti
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
+ 40'23
16
Cyril Dessel
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
+ 42'25
17
Vincenzo Nibali
LIQUIGAS
+ 43'47
18
Andrea Tonti
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
+ 47'11
19
Vladimir Efimkin
ASTANÁ
+ 51'00
20
Sérgio Paulinho
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
+ 53'55
1
Damiano Cunego
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
20
199
2
Danilo Di Luca
ASTANÁ
12
191
3
Gilberto Simoni
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
25
175
4
Leonardo Piepoli
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
16
128
5
Daniele Bennati
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
0
116
6
Paolo Bettini
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
0
110
7
Andy Schleck
LIQUIGAS
10
106
8
Robbie McEwen
QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC
0
96
9
Thor Hushovd
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
0
82
10
Luca Mazzanti
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE
0
76
1
Damiano Cunego
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
3
87
2
Leonardo Piepoli
SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR
1
77
3
Gilberto Simoni
CAISSE D'EPARGNE
5
64
4
Danilo Di Luca
ASTANÁ
0
62
5
Marzio Bruseghin
LAMPRE - FONDITAL
0
35
6
Giuseppe Guerini
T-MOBILE TEAM
0
33
7
Vincenzo Nibali
LIQUIGAS
0
31
8
Pietro Caucchioli
LIQUIGAS
0
31
9
Pierrick Fédrigo
BOUYGUES TELECOM
0
30
10
Matthieu Sprick
BOUYGUES TELECOM
10
28
Damiano Cunego is credited as leading the young riders classification, but it is Andy Schleck who leads the way. (Cunego is too old).
Meanwhile theres been a dramatic change in the teams since last posted. If you remember Lampre had a comfortable lead over Liquigas, with Caisse 4 seconds behind Liquigas. Well now its Caisse d'Epargne who lead the teams, 40 seconds ahead of Liquigas and numerous minutes ahead of 3rd place Lampre.
Edited by Roman on 16-10-2016 13:10
