Challenge Mallorca 2023 (January 25-29)

[Devil's Elbow]

The European season continues with the quintet of races it used to start with - Challenge Mallorca. There’s one big change this year: there will actually be TV coverage! Will be the final hour (or a little more) for each day, starting at 3pm on Wednesday through Saturday and 12:45pm on Sunday.

Teams and preselections

Profiles
Trofeo Calvià

Trofeo Ses Salines - Alcúdia

Trofeo Andratx - Mirador des Colomer (Pollença)

Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana (Lloseta - Lloseta)

Trofeo Palma - Palma

Climbs
Trofeo Calvià
Coll des Cocons

Coll des Tords

Coll des Grau

Coll den Claret (final 5.0k omly

Coll de Sóller

Coll den Bleda + Can Costa

Coll den Claret (final 4.5k only)

Torre del Verger

Es Grau + Coll de sa Gramola

Coll de sa Coma + Coll de n’Esteve

Trofeo Ses Salines - Alcúdia
Coll Sa Batalla

Descent (right to left), including the small drag to Coll Femenia

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Trofeo Andratx - Mirador des Colomer (Pollença)
Coll de sa Gramola

Es Grau

Coll den Claret

Coll Puig Major

Descent (right to left) + minor drags

Mirador des Colomer (finish)

Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana (Lloseta - Lloseta)
Coll Femenies + Coll Sa Batalla

Bunyola

Coll de Sóller

Puig Major

Descent (right to left) + minor drags

Trofeo Palma - Palma
Subida Randa (first 2.9k only)

There’s a second KOM unmarked on the PCS profile to Cor de Mallorca after 98k, as per the roadbook it’s 0.7k at 6.4%.

 

[Samamba]

Snow on Puig Major. Pretty bad weather this week in Mallorca.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Snow on Puig Major. Pretty bad weather this week in Mallorca.

The pass is also currently closed due to the snow, good thing the race doesn’t go there until Friday.

 

[Samamba]

The pass is also currently closed due to the snow, good thing the race doesn’t go there until Friday.

Yeah but the forecasts for the rest of the week aren't good either. Biggest problem is that you can't just skip Puig Major in those stages. It's mallorca, roads are limited.

 

[Bonimenier]

De Lie, Girmay, Alaphilippe, Uijtdebroeks and De Lie again.
I apologize in advance for the spoilers.

 

[DNP-Old]

Snow on Puig Major. Pretty bad weather this week in Mallorca.

Recorded temperatures on the Balearic Islands of minus 7. Meanwhile, it's a sunny 8° in Amsterdam. Strange world.

 

[Samamba]

De Lie, Girmay, Alaphilippe, Uijtdebroeks and De Lie again.
I apologize in advance for the spoilers.

De Lie isn't riding, also there's no way he would've survived stage 1 if he was riding.

 

[Anderis]

Recorded temperatures on the Balearic Islands of minus 7. Meanwhile, it's a sunny 8° in Amsterdam. Strange world.

And in Poland we had 14° in early January...

 

[Mayomaniac]

And in Poland we had 14° in early January...

I was in Krakow at the end of June/start of July and the heat you had there was brutal, I think it was 38° one day.

 

[Berniece]

De Lie, Girmay, Alaphilippe, Uijtdebroeks and De Lie again.
I apologize in advance for the spoilers.

Wellens will get his only win if the season here too

 

[Anderis]

I was in Krakow at the end of June/start of July and the heat you had there was brutal, I think it was 38° one day.

I live a little bit further north and I don't recall temperatures anywhere near 38° here in the last few years. There's usually only a few days of over 30° per year. Kraków tends to be a bit warmer from what I understand.

 

[Samamba]

3 wins for Wellens atleast. It's Mallorca and bad weather. There's no escaping prime Wellens.

In all seriousness. McNulty will destroy the rest in the 3 harder races, if the parcours doesn't change because of the weather.

 

[Potomac]

These have go to be better than that San Juan snooze fest

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Wellens and McNulty as a team should be super strong here. Wellens is in top shape every January and February, before he gets his well-deserved strolling break until early autumn.

Mallorca Challenge is great. I hope snow is no factor, and profiles won’t be changed.

 

[Wvv]

Go Rune!

 

[Samamba]

Bad weather as expected. I'm hoping noone gets injured today cause Mallorca roads can get extremely slippery when wet.

 

[Samamba]

Lots of crashes as expected

 

[Potomac]

Is it on TV yet? I thought the broadcast didn't begin for another 30 minutes.

 

[Salvarani]

Lots of crashes as expected

Do you know any riders involved?

 

[repre]

Van Wilder abandons after crash, possible injury as well

 

[repre]

Do you know any riders involved?

McNulty and van Wilder

 

[search]

Is it on TV yet? I thought the broadcast didn't begin for another 30 minutes.

not yet, no. But Alaphilippe, Bagioli, Costa and some others are on the attack already. Wellens & McNulty were in that group as well, but both crashed

best live ticker is on Velopro, as usual: https://cyclingpro.net/velopro/cour...-de-majorque-2023-le-direct-du-trofeo-calvia/

 

[repre]

And Wellens crashes out too from the front group. Brutal

 

[Samamba]

QS attacked in the descent of the Soller climb. Wellens crashed out of that and Van Wilder & Mcnulty also DNFed after a crash before. Those are just the names we know, there have been a couple more crashes.

QS is in a really good position with 4 guys in a group of 9 riders.

Eenkhoorn & Healy still in front from the early breakaway.