Lazkano really suffering on these uncategorised ramps. A few of which really ought to have been categorised. Should be safe from here, the group behind isn't too worried about the sprint it seems, since it's really been trimmed heavily by the climbing. This one really had the potential to be a banana skin, and certainly not a sprinters' stage as the ones into Viseu often tend to end up being.
Quite a bit of interest in that group of poursuivants. Two from Burgos-BH, two from Delko just rode across to join it. Sérgio Martín monitoring for Caja Rural, but now a split in the bunch behind gives extra impetus, Lazkano could really see his gap tumble in this last few kilometres. Suddenly it doesn't seem so cut and dried...