2019 Critérium du Dauphiné

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

Date: 06/09 - 06/16
Race class: 2.UWT

Websites:
http://www.letour.fr
twitter.com/dauphine


provisional start list:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/dauphine/2019/gc/startlist


profiles:

stage 1

stage 2

stage 3

stage 4 ITT

stage 5

stage 6

stage 7

stage 8

 

[Red Rick]

ITT + 1MTF race.

Easy win for Froome unless Dumoulin magically is in good shape

 

[klintE]

The course is not that bad as people say. Thibaut Pinot will win this bike race.

 

[del1962]

Re:

ITT + 1MTF race.

Easy win for Froome unless Dumoulin magically is in good shape

Stage 6 while not MTF could be great

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Solid variation. I think race action will be good, if we can avoid too much train domination.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Re:

ITT + 1MTF race.

Easy win for Froome unless Dumoulin magically is in good shape

I don't know if Froome is already in Tour shape, otherwise Dan Martin and Adam Yates could make it interesting by grabbing a lot of bonus seconds on the other stages.

 

[Red Rick]

Re: Re:

ITT + 1MTF race.

Easy win for Froome unless Dumoulin magically is in good shape

I don't know if Froome is already in Tour shape, otherwise Dan Martin and Adam Yates could make it interesting by grabbing a lot of bonus seconds on the other stages.

They'll throw away over a minute in the ITT.

Froome won't be in Tour shape but he's going all in on the Tour and not holding back

 

[Salvarani]

Froome has won Dauphine 3 times. Each one before he won the Tour, so he should be performing at a very high level me thinks. He should not be too far off when it comes to shape and form.

2017 he was 4th, when Fuglsang won. When Froome and Porte were riding against each other.

 

[Laplaz]

Route is not too bad imo. Curious to see Dumourain's shape.

 

[MatParker117]

Re: Re:

ITT + 1MTF race.

Easy win for Froome unless Dumoulin magically is in good shape

I don't know if Froome is already in Tour shape, otherwise Dan Martin and Adam Yates could make it interesting by grabbing a lot of bonus seconds on the other stages.

That's why Kwaitkowski is here I think

 

[Oliver]

The TT will decide it offcourse. Froome to win it. I hope Dumoulin is showing some good form.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Oddly weak sprinting field. I suppose that the Giro-Tour guys don’t want the race days?

 

[yaco]

Sprinters will ride Slovenie or the ZLM Tour.

 

[Leinster]

Re:

Oddly weak sprinting field. I suppose that the Giro-Tour guys don’t want the race days?

Bennett, Hodeg, Mezgec, Bouhanni, Boassen Hagen and Greipel might not be the cream of the sprinting crop, but it’s a solid lineup by Dauphine standards. The one or two sprint stages per year have been easy pickings for the handful who’ve bothered to show up in recent years.

 

[Gigs_98]

Froome isn't going for the doulbe for any sort of double for the first time since 2016, so I expect his shape to be somwhere around that level again, maybe a little worse as he is starting to decline. But he definitely looks like the most likely winner.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re: Re:

Oddly weak sprinting field. I suppose that the Giro-Tour guys don’t want the race days?

Bennett, Hodeg, Mezgec, Bouhanni, Boassen Hagen and Greipel might not be the cream of the sprinting crop, but it’s a solid lineup by Dauphine standards. The one or two sprint stages per year have been easy pickings for the handful who’ve bothered to show up in recent years.

It just seems unusual this year to see a relatively prestigious WT race with a couple of sprint stages and only one of the big sprinters there. These days I’m getting spoiled and expecting at least three at every race.

 

[rick james]

Team Ineos for the Critérium du Dauphiné: Chris Froome, Gianni Moscon, Wout Poels, Michal Kwiatkowski, Ian Stannard, Dylan Van Baarle, and Vasil Kiryienka.

 

[happytramp]

In theory couldn't a sprinter quit after stage 5 and start the tour of switzerland a few days later? Seems to be a couple of stages for them there.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Reminds me a bit of the 2012 route with only one proper mountainstage to gain time. Otherwise the stages look interesting apart from a few sprints tho.

 

[Poursuivant]

In theory couldn't a sprinter quit after stage 5 and start the tour of switzerland a few days later? Seems to be a couple of stages for them there.

Think the UCI Rules prohibit that.

Reminds me a bit of the 2012 route with only one proper mountainstage to gain time. Otherwise the stages look interesting apart from a few sprints tho.

Funnily enough this is first time Quintana has rode Dauphiné since 2012 which surprised me a bit, thought he had done more than one Dauphiné.

 

[Leinster]

In theory couldn't a sprinter quit after stage 5 and start the tour of switzerland a few days later? Seems to be a couple of stages for them there.

If you abandon one stage race, you can’t start another UCI race until the one you started is over.

I think the UCI brought in that rule precisely because of riders doing exactly that.

As great as it is for spectators to have these stage races backloaded with GC stages, I do wish there was something in it for sprinters/classics specialists/rouleurs in terms of some reward for getting over the last few days of mountains and TTs. Demare lost the Ciclamino Jersey on stage 18 of the Giro, and had to carry on for 3 more days with nothing to show for it each day except to check if Ackerman has abandoned or not.

 

[Tonton]

Re:

The course is not that bad as people say. Thibaut Pinot will win this bike race.

You beat me to it .

 

[Robert5091]

Dawg will be straining on the leash to get in some proper competition riding so I expect Ineos to keep the speed up.

 

[sir fly]

Nice route. No place for complaints.
Maybe the riders could complain since there's no high altitude they'll tackle a month later. If that's the case, they can head straight to Switzerland instead of waiting for eight days to do so.
Hopefully, the weather will be good. It really affects the experience on both sides of the screen.

 

[klintE]

Re: Re:

The course is not that bad as people say. Thibaut Pinot will win this bike race.

You beat me to it .

Sorry my friend; first come, first served

He can beat Fulsang and Yates in TT, only Throome and Dumo are a little problem. But i suspect them to not being in 100% form.