[Dr Winston]

Yeah….time to go climbing and rolling. Fields are getting stronger and stronger, no idea where to even start to try and unpick this one after the TT…

Topic

[MinardiM189]

Dr Winston wrote:

Well played Minardi and Gecko…Good wins…

Glad Minardi has come out of his run of bad luck. …back in the game. Second in the purist for me for the second game running….I can see a pattern developing.

Thanks Dr Winston.

Hopefully I can build on this result.

[Gecko-cyclist]

Chuffed with a first tour win
Chuffed with a first tour win.
Weirdly 21 points more in my purist team than my standard – that can’t be too common?

Congratulations to Minardi winning the standard too.

You having a transfer left is unbelievable but a big lesson in the benefits of not tinkering. Learning that, and when not to spend the full budget just because it’s there are definitely things I need to work on!

[Dr Winston]

Well played Minardi and Gecko

Well played Minardi and Gecko…Good wins…

Glad Minardi has come out of his run of bad luck. …back in the game. Second in the purist for me for the second game running….I can see a pattern developing.

[Condor Andy]

And Gecko holds off Dr

And Gecko holds off Dr Winston by 8 points in the purist!

[Condor Andy]

305 Minardi and you have

305 Minardi and you have taken the win, congrats!

13 people with > 300 on this stage.

[Sniffer]

MinardiM189 wrote:

MinardiM189 wrote:

Looks like I may have my highest stage score ever, 303 I make it.

Hopefully enough to take the win in the standard competition.

Can we introduce a 20 point bonus for unused transfers please ?

Looks good. I had the same team except Bravo retained instead of Quintero.

No transfers left for me. Used the last two to drop Martinez and Schachmann for Landa and Buchmann.

[MinardiM189]

Looks like I may have my

Looks like I may have my highest stage score ever, 303 I make it.

Hopefully enough to take the win in the standard competition.

Can we introduce a 20 point bonus for unused transfers please ?

[MinardiM189]

Dr Winston wrote:

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

Nineteen riders in the break. Anybody of any significance?

No-one a GC threat but Movistar have 3 riders  & UAE 2.

Gap isn’t very big though.

I have a feeling it is going to be all back together soon.

I need De Marchi to rack some pts up to have a chance at the purist

He has picked up 3+3+3+1 so far

but will probably drop down to 3rd overall by the end of the day.

[Dr Winston]

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

Nineteen riders in the break. Anybody of any significance?

No-one a GC threat but Movistar have 3 riders  & UAE 2.

Gap isn’t very big though.

I have a feeling it is going to be all back together soon.

I need De Marchi to rack some pts up to have a chance at the purist

[MinardiM189]

My team for the final day –

My team for the final day –

YATES A.
IZAGIRRE I.
BUCHMANN
FUGLSANG
MARTIN D.
LANDA
POGACAR
QUINTERO

Dropped Martinez for Landa & brought Quintero in for Bravo.

Still have one transfer left.

[MinardiM189]

Dr Winston wrote:

Nineteen riders in the break. Anybody of any significance?

No-one a GC threat but Movistar have 3 riders  & UAE 2.

Gap isn’t very big though.

I have a feeling it is going to be all back together soon.

[Dr Winston]

Nineteen riders in the break.

Nineteen riders in the break. Anybody of any significance?

[MinardiM189]

Condor Andy wrote:

MinardiM189 wrote:

KoM points stage 5

The offical site has got Van Rensberg as coming 4th on IXUA GAINA cat1 climb.

Van Rensberg was knowhere in sight, it was actually Pogacar.

They took the KoM as shown in the pic

Sanchez, Izagirre, Landa, Pogacar, Buchmann, Gaudu

Roger that, I’ll keep my eye on it and update later.

It looks like Van Rensberg is keeping his KoM points, the race site and UCI have him still listed as 4th on that climb.

I guess someone wrote the numbers down wrong, 134 instead of 104.

[Condor Andy]

MinardiM189 wrote:

KoM points stage 5

The offical site has got Van Rensberg as coming 4th on IXUA GAINA cat1 climb.

Van Rensberg was knowhere in site, it was actually Pogacar.

They took the KoM as shown in the pic

Sanchez, Izagirre, Landa, Pogacar, Buchmann, Gaudu

Roger that, I’ll keep my eye on it and update later.

[stevemarks]

MinardiM189 wrote:

Sniffer wrote:

Missed the Buchmann opportnity.

In reality holding Schachmann for the day won’t be a bad decision.  GC points for 3rd, must still be holding points jersey, best young rider to go with 9th on the stage and a team mate bonus.

I did consider Buchmann, but went Fuglsang and Pogacar instead.  The best play would have been dropping Martinez, but I doubt many would have done that.

I never considered dropping Martinez, he was unfortunate at the end, he got left behind by the front few and dragged everybody else to the finish before they all jumped him.

Working out what to do with my 3 remaining transfers isn’t going to be easy.

At least I saved myself that problem Lol!

[Author]

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