Will Schachmann and WVA try to win the stage from breakaway or wil they be on leader protection duty ?
I noted Gregoire, Mohoric, every single EF, Louis Barré, most AG2R for the break.
Wind stronger than early afternoon, so people go slower on first part, then faster on second part.
Sadly for them second part is more downhill so overall people that strated early had an advantage.
Vauquelin fastest time on hardest climb, while starting in bad position.
4" less then Gregoire / Pogacar / Remco.
He will be top 3 in Rouen.
He's from Bayeux (and so am I) so he knows probably most roads from stage 4 to 6.
I did a cyclo there in June.
There are almost no trees, and when you are on the top of hills it's clearly open fields.
Haut pichot is quite hard already and should be used to reduce peloton to 30 people or it will be dangerous afterward.