When you fire a rider and don't take him out of the race, he takes no time to race a race but is still there so the rider takes a massive amount of time out of the other riders.
In my Rabo carrer in pcm07 Vuelta Lowik was first and Menchov second after they withdrew 'cause of a fall. So only one rider is good, I had 2
The stage when they felt was a simulated one