Dawg was dropped pretty early, and was 50 seconds down on Quintana and Contador. Noted climber Peter Kennaugh paced Dawg a while. Then I guess he turned on the motor (or found a more favorable gradient), because he shot up through the groups like crazy. Blew past guys from the break (fair enough) and guys like Chaves/Yates. Only ones who could follow this seated acceleration extravaganza for any time at all were noted clean cyclists Alejandro Valverde and Michele Scarponi. Scarponi got dropped, then Valverde. Contador blew himself up trying to put time into Froome while he was dropped. Quintana went on, blew past Gesnik and won the stage.
Dawg did a lot of this sitting down, but he did get out the saddle to lose the sprint to Gesnik.
Anybody who spends money to sponsor a cycling team during this era is a fool.