2022 Vuelta a Burgos (2/8 - 6/8)

[RedheadDane]

It's time for this nice little Spanish bike race. Two years ago, the benefitted greatly from being the first major (televised) bike race after the lockdown, going from just four WT teams in 2019, to a whopping 14 in 2020. Then they have "lost" a WT team each year since, so now they're down to 12.

Startlist for Vuelta a Burgos 2022 (procyclingstats.com)

Startlist now completed, so here's the updated Top Competitors list:

1	ALMEIDA João	UAE Team Emirates	1324
2	VALVERDE Alejandro	Movistar Team	1143
3	HINDLEY Jai	BORA - hansgrohe	1015
4	TRENTIN Matteo	UAE Team Emirates	786
5	LANDA Mikel	Bahrain - Victorious	713
6	RODRÍGUEZ Carlos	INEOS Grenadiers	651
7	GAVIRIA Fernando	UAE Team Emirates	600
8	SIVAKOV Pavel	INEOS Grenadiers	534
9	MÄDER Gino	Bahrain - Victorious	533
10	CHAMPOUSSIN Clément	AG2R Citroën Team	524

(Sorry, no room for Masnada)

Race will be shown live on ES Player and GCN.

 

[RedheadDane]

Stage 1 » Burgos › Burgos (157km)

 

[RedheadDane]

Stage 2 » Vivar del Cid › Villadiego (158km)

(Interesting placement of the "top" of the Alto de la Lora.)

(Unlike PCS, I'm only gonna include this climb once...)

 

[RedheadDane]

Stage 3 » Quintana Martín Galíndez › Villarcayo (156km)

 

[RedheadDane]

Stage 4 » Torresandino › Ciudad Romana de Clunia (169km)

(As you can see, this stage is flat!)

 

[RedheadDane]

Stage 5 » Lermas › Lagunas de Neila (170km)

 

[ice&fire]

The race with only two types of climbs: cat3 and HC.

According to the race web site, PCS is missing the most important rider: the defending champion

Mikel Landa defenderá el título en la XLIV Vuelta a Burgos | Vuelta Burgos

 

[Earns1985]

Miguel Ángel Lopez will also ride...

 

[RedheadDane]

Like I said, the startlist isn't finalised. I'll replace the "Top Competitors" list once there's more info.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

It's time for this nice little Spanish bike race. Two years ago, the benefitted greatly from being the first major (televised) bike race after the lockdown, going from just four WT teams in 2019, to a whopping 14 in 2020. Then they have "lost" a WT team each year since, so now they're down to 12.

Startlist for Vuelta a Burgos 2022 (procyclingstats.com)

Not yet finalised, but so far it looks like it will contain one Wout and one Slovene.

Some - expected - top competitors:

1	ALMEIDA João	UAE Team Emirates	1324
2	VALVERDE Alejandro	Movistar Team	1143
3	HINDLEY Jai	BORA - hansgrohe	1015
4	TRENTIN Matteo	UAE Team Emirates	786
5	RODRÍGUEZ Carlos	INEOS Grenadiers	651
6	AYUSO Juan	UAE Team Emirates	614
7	SIVAKOV Pavel	INEOS Grenadiers	534
8	CHAMPOUSSIN Clément	AG2R Citroën Team	524
9	DE LA CRUZ David	Astana Qazaqstan Team	517
10	NIBALI Vincenzo	Astana Qazaqstan Team	507
11	MASNADA Fausto	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team	481

Took it up to 11, so the most important rider would get on the list.

Race will be shown live on ES Player and GCN.

Thank you for this post . Landa is also definitely participating unless something unexpected happen.

Let's see how our Fausto performs, generally climbs like Picon Blanco are a little bit steep for him. But finally we have Fausto, Vicnenzo and Mikel in a race together

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Stage 3 » Quintana Martín Galíndez › Villarcayo (156km)

The stage finished on Picón Blanco 2017-20, and last year it finished on a desccent. This time it's further from the finish. How many years will it take before it's part of the neutralised zone?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I'm afraid we 'll have to wait for the final 30 minutes of the final day to see where the GC is going.

 

[laarsland]

Miguel Ángel Lopez will also ride...

He'll be extra motivated if there is powdered snow atop the mountain finish

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Real shame that removing the MTF from Picón Blanco doesn't enable them to go back to using the better sides of Lagunas de Neila back from a few years ago, when they descended the side they now MTF.

 

[ice&fire]

The stage finished on Picón Blanco 2017-20, and last year it finished on a desccent. This time it's further from the finish. How many years will it take before it's part of the neutralised zone?

Can't blame them for adding small changes to a route that basically repeats itself every year.

 

[Big Doopie]

Miguel Ángel Lopez will also ride...

Will he be wearing an ankle bracelet?

 

[Earns1985]

Don't get it, why so few sprinters participate in spanish races like these.. 60% could end in a sprint here and Gaviria is the biggest Sprinter name?

 

[Red Rick]

It's Burgos. Someone will try to attack on Picon Blanco because "I has good legs".

This isn't the Giro

 

[ice&fire]

Don't get it, why so few sprinters participate in spanish races like these.. 60% could end in a sprint here and Gaviria is the biggest Sprinter name?

Watch carefully the details of the final kms. Two of those "sprint" stages feature regularly in the race and they are for puncheurs.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Can't blame them for adding small changes to a route that basically repeats itself every year.

It was just a bit of very poor observational cycling comedy.
I quite like the stage, which could result in action from further out

 

[Rollthedice]

What a difference a year makes. Last year Aru finished second.

 

[noob]

The TV production is like... :O No focus :O

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Break

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Broadcast on https://live.lequipe.fr/ but you need a VPN.

 

[noob]

I am disappointed of the Almeida jersey. What's the point of just adding some small strips of the flag The national jerseys makes the peleton fun, but this is boring.