Adriatica Ionica Race 2018 (2.1)

[TourOfSardinia]

Lol almost a Quickstep 1 2

The moto on the stirrato was too close to the pack - making even the dom on the front breath dust.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

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What happened to Cavendish? Just bad?

Cav (off form) let Renshaw have his chance
but Renshaw was already burnt out

 

[Laplaz]

Ravasi lose 1:32 apparently

 

[postmanhat]

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Here's the official video with the mighty silverfox Savio on commentary (the other guy's pretty bad):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcRROj-SoC4

Nice, anyone who has an idea of the ascent time up Giau? Can it be compared to 2016 or 2012 in any way?

Someone posted the Strava times on twitter. Soasa 's attack in the final 2.28km was over a minute quicker than Nibali/Dombrowski/Kruijswijk in 2016. Both he and Arslanov were quicker in the first part of the climb, but only by a few seconds

https://www.strava.com/activities/1655071495/overview

 

[janraaskalt]

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Ravasi lose 1:32 apparently

Puncture on the sterrati. :sad:

 

[Nirvana]

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Here's the official video with the mighty silverfox Savio on commentary (the other guy's pretty bad):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcRROj-SoC4

Nice, anyone who has an idea of the ascent time up Giau? Can it be compared to 2016 or 2012 in any way?

Someone posted the Strava times on twitter. Soasa 's attack in the final 2.28km was over a minute quicker than Nibali/Dombrowski/Kruijswijk in 2016. Both he and Arslanov were quicker in the first part of the climb, but only by a few seconds

https://www.strava.com/activities/1655071495/overview

Yesterday the stage finished almost 2 kms before the pass, you can't compare ascent times.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Completely impossible to compare.

As Nirvana says, the climb was shorter today.
It was also the stage finish, while in 2016 they had to save energy to ride another 40+kms to the finish including another mountain.

And that's not even going into how this one wasn't two weeks into a GT

 

[Nirvana]

I'm watching now yesterday's stage, Cavendish was very good on the sterrato (a very bad sterrato, nothing compared to the smooth one of Strade Bianche, at some point a "ghiaione" rather than a sterrato), he was following Trentin attack and after Trentin puncture sitted just behind Quick Step riders.
His problem is that in the end he couldn't sprint, he just gave up Renshaw wheel in the last km.

 

[del1962]

Viviani takes final stage, Cav 2nd

 

[Valv.Piti]

Nice little race, but I hope they will make a more interesting route next year. A TTT, 3 sprint stages and one MTF is pretty bad.

 

[Escarabajo]

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Nice little race, but I hope they will make a more interesting route next year. A TTT, 3 sprint stages and one MTF is pretty bad.

Agree.
This should be more like Route du Sud or even Trentino.