2018 Vuelta a Burgos, 7-11 Aug (2.HC)

[ice&fire]

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/vuelta-a-burgos/2018/overview

Stage 1 (Tue, 7 Aug): Catedral Burgos – El Castillo, 151 km.
The usual hill finish at the castle with a mistake in the profile as the loop after the first pass over the finish line is around 10kms long.

Stage 2 (Wed, 8 Aug): Belorado – Castrojeriz, 163 km.

Stage 3 (Thu, 9 Aug): Sedano – Picón Blanco, 149 km.
A repeat of the MTF they featured last year for the first time where Landa set the foundation for his win.

Stage 4 (Fri, 10 Aug): Monasterio de San Pedro de Cardeña – Clunia, 165 km.
Another regular uphill finish to the ruins of the old Roman town.

Stage 5 (Sat, 11 Aug): Salas de los Infantes – Lagunas de Neila, 141 km.
Like last year, after the introduction of Picón Blanco the stage to Lagunas de Neila goes direct to the summit without the loop they used to do.

Ciclo21 has a list of participants.

WORLD TOUR
Astana
Miguel Ángel López
Omar Fraile
Pello Bilbao
Dimitriy Gruzdev
Andrey Zeits
Jan Hirt

Dimension Data
Igor Antón
Ben King
Stephen Cummings
Amanuel Gebreigzabhier
Merawhi Kudus
Louis Meintjes
Jaco Venter

Movistar
Winner Anacona
Carlos Barbero
José Joaquín Rojas
Rubén Fernández
Nelson Oliveira
Jaime Castrillo
Rafa Valls

Sky
David De la Cruz
Kenny Elissonde
Sebastián Henao
Vasil Kiryienka
Diego Rosa
Tao Geoghegan
David López

PROFESSIONAL CONTINENTAL

Androni-Sidermec
Davide Ballerine
Alessandro Bisolti
Mattia Cattaneo
Marco Fraprorti
Francesco Gavazzi
Ivan Ramiro Sosa

Burgos-BH
Jordi Simon
Jesús Ezquerra
Óscar Cabedo
Diego Rubio
Jorge Cubero
Pablo Torres
José Mendes

Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
Álex Aramburu
Sergio Pardilla
Lluis Mas
Jonathan Lastra
Julen Amezqueta
Nelson Soto
Nick Schultz

Delko-Marseille
Lucas De Rossi
Jeremy Leveau
Remy Rochas
Javi Moreno
Ángel Madrazo
Delio Fernández
Nikolay Mihaylov

Direct Energie
Rein Taaramae
Jeremy Cornu
Yohann Gene
Axel Journiaux
Brian Nauleau
Alexandre Pichot
Perring Quemeneur

Euskadi-Murias
Mikel Bizkarra
Ander Barrenetxea
Aritz Bagües
Sergio Rodriguez
Mikel Iturria
Jon Aberasturi
Garikoitz Bravo

Fortuneo-Samsic
Sindre Lunke
Maxime Daniel
Brice Feillu
Arnaud Gerard
Benoit Jarrier
Jeremy Maison
Pierre Luc Perichon

Nippo-Vini Fantini
Marco Canola
Marino Kobayashi
Marco Tizza
Filippo Zaccanti
Nicola Bagioli
Miguel Angel Reyes
Joan Bou Company

Willier Triestina Selle Italia
Liam Bertazzo
Marco Coledan
Guiseppe Fonzi
Jakub Mareczko
Filippo Pozzato
Alex Turrin
Edoardo Zardini

CONTINENTAL

Fundación Euskadi
Txomen Juaristi
Juan Antonio López-Cozar
Iker Azkarate
Ibai Azurmendi
Diego López
Gotzon Martín
Egoitz Fernández

Polartec-Kometa
Michele Gazzoli
Matteo Moschetti
Patrick Gasper
Juan Pedro López
Diego Pablo Sevilla
Juan Camacho
Alejandro Ropero

 

[Tim Booth]

Ciclo21 needs updating, for example
Astana: Omar Fraile, Dimitriy Gruzdev & Andrey Zeits are not riding

 

[Scarponi]

Pardillia to win

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Also, Lagunas de Neila is a multi-sided climb. They're climbing the easiest side, so that it's not an OTT race with Picón Blanco already there. In the old 'loop' design, they descended this side.

Essentially, from Quintanar de la Sierra there are two roads, one which goes to the Puerto del Collado, which is very gradual, and one which goes to Lagunas de Neila, which is at a mid-gradient. At the Puerto del Collado, you can either continue onto the descent into the village of Neila, or turn left and take the steep trunk road which links the Puerto del Collado to the older road to the summit. If you continue into Neila, you can either turn right into the Cameros valley and into La Rioja, or you can turn left to head out towards Burgos again. A couple of kilometres onto this road, there's a left hand turn which takes you up towards Lagunas de Neila.

The road from Quintanar de la Sierra and the road from Quintanar de la Sierra via Puerto del Collado both meet, before a slightly shallower stretch, where they then meet the road from Neila, and have the steep final couple of kilometres. In the old loop they would climb to the Puerto, descend to the village, then climb to this junction, and descend to Quintanar via the old road, then do it again and go all the way to the summit. In the 1998 Vuelta, they climbed to the Puerto del Collado then took the steep link road all the way to the summit.

Neila side (traditional Vuelta a Burgos loop, from Neila village/junction for Quintanar):

(note the junction for Quintanar 2km from the top - this is where they usually turn back downhill on the first loop)

Quintanar via Puerto del Collado side (1998 Vuelta route):

(the traditional Vuelta a Burgos loop descends 1,5km or so of this, between the junction marked El Pontón (that's the junction mentioned above) and the junction at 11,5km for Quintanar)

Quintanar camino viejo (2017-18 Vuelta a Burgos route, descended in traditional Vuelta a Burgos loop):

 

[Escarabajo]

So is it the second without the loop? I didn't understand clearly your reading.

 

[Kazistuta]

Pardillia to win

When has he last performed?

I believe it's gonna be between Bilbao, Lopez,Tao, De La Cruz, Meintjes and wonderkid Sosa. But there's big race form questions with them all, also with the other outsiders.
Looking forward to seing how Soto and Moschetti performs in the flat stages.

 

[ice&fire]

Re:

So is it the second without the loop? I didn't understand clearly your reading.

They'll ride the last one.

 

[Laplaz]

If Sosa is in shape like in the Adriatica Ionica Race or Tour of the Alps it will be difficult to beat him. Bilbao, MAL, Tao and De la Cruz still are bigger favorites.

 

[janraaskalt]

If Sosa is in shape like in the Adriatica Ionica Race or Tour of the Alps it will be difficult to beat him. Bilbao, MAL, Tao and De la Cruz still are bigger favorites.

Sosa did take a break, didn't he?

 

[Escarabajo]

Re: Re:

So is it the second without the loop? I didn't understand clearly your reading.

They'll ride the last one.

Thanks.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

any tv coverage?

 

[ice&fire]

Re:

any tv coverage?

There's a stream in the race website www.vueltaburgos.com/es/

Died with 1km to go

 

[ice&fire]

Gavazzi won. The stream keeps on dying.

 

[mariposa]

Re:

Gavazzi won. The stream keeps on dying.

So annoying. I particularly wanted to see the finish as I know it quite well. There was also meant to be a stream on EITB but I couldn't get it to work. Will try again tomorrow and hope it is better.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Re: Re:

So is it the second without the loop? I didn't understand clearly your reading.

They'll ride the last one.

Thanks.

Traditional loop does the false flat from the second one, then the first one, then descends the third one, then does it all again.

1998 Vuelta (the only time Lagunas de Neila has been in the race) did the second one.

2017 and 2018 Vueltas a Burgos climb the third one.

 

[klintE]

Well, i suppose they will need a lot of CLIMBING skills to get to the finish line of stage 5
(spotted by Ufe)

 

[Laplaz]

Matteo Moschetti wins the 2nd stage.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Matteo Moschetti wins the 2nd stage.

Absolutely brilliant. Of course there aren't many decent sprinters present but it's still a win at one of the highest levels in cycling.
He needs to work on his climbing skills though, yesterday he finished dead last, more than 6 minutes behind the "gruppetto".

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Matteo Moschetti wins the 2nd stage.

He went a bit quiet after his seven wins earlier in the season, but his slightly delayed eighth one is by far the biggest. A fantastic year for the dude, and he has almost single handedly made it an excellent year for Polartec.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Matteo Moschetti wins the 2nd stage.

Absolutely brilliant. Of course there aren't many decent sprinters present but it's still a win at one of the highest levels in cycling.
He needs to work on his climbing skills though, yesterday he finished dead last, more than 6 minutes behind the "gruppetto".

He has already been signed up for next year by a big team, right? Which one is it again?

A pity for Polartec that they will lose him, but of course that’s ultimately the point of a development team.

 

[Zama_Olyas]

Are there highlights for this race?

 

[GuyIncognito]

Re:

Are there highlights for this race?

From what I can tell, it's on both Lequipe and a spanish channel

It's on a certain invite site if you have an account

 

[Zama_Olyas]

Thank you. I will try to find it.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Danish TV completely randomly showed this race last year, but unfortunately not this year. Its actually one of the races I like the most on the calendar for some reason back to 2011 when Landa won when Euskaltel also had prime Antón and Samu in the race. Its always nice to watch some of the younger climbers perform like Landa, Chaves, Soler, Mas, Superman Lopez etc.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Matteo Moschetti wins the 2nd stage.

Absolutely brilliant. Of course there aren't many decent sprinters present but it's still a win at one of the highest levels in cycling.
He needs to work on his climbing skills though, yesterday he finished dead last, more than 6 minutes behind the "gruppetto".

He has already been signed up for next year by a big team, right? Which one is it again?

A pity for Polartec that they will lose him, but of course that’s ultimately the point of a development team.

He's been signed by Trek, Polartec is their feeder team so no surprise.
Moschetti leaving provides new opportunities for their other Italian sprinter, Gazzoli, who is only 19.