Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard thread: Love in Iberia

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Nobody is talking that last year was the same?
Doctor of Jumbo prepared Jonas for the second part on Tour :), there He will reach his peak/ form

No, last year was not the same.

Last year the first mountain stage that could create gaps between the two was stage 7 (they finished st anyway), this year we already had 3 stages where there was actually gaps between the two and there will be no Roglič in the second week.

As for that talk that Vingegård is going to reach the peak in the second part of the Tour, well why would it be any different for Pogačar especially coming from an injury?

This doesn't mean that he can't beat Pogačar of course but circumstances don't favour him as much as last year.
 
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No, look here:

Pogacar had never been above the red line, before yesterday. It was, by some distance, his best performance ever.

Stage 5 was in line with his performances the previous years, but yesterday was way above

Some people come with these numbers thinking they are trustworthy. We don't have a clue how many watts Pogacar is doing and we don't know his real weight either. So this is just pure speculation.
 
No, look here:

Pogacar had never been above the red line, before yesterday. It was, by some distance, his best performance ever.

Stage 5 was in line with his performances the previous years, but yesterday was way above

I trust a bit more in ammattipyoraily data.

View: https://twitter.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1678115559970357248


There's less 0.3 w/kg in ammattipyoraily result.
 
I trust a bit more in ammattipyoraily data.

View: https://twitter.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1678115559970357248


There's less 0.3 w/kg in ammattipyoraily result.

Some have found 7w/kg. Someone said what about ammatti, and he replied " I can't tell you why Ammatti has a different value. I have no idea. All I can say is that I am 1000% confident my value is correct. "


View: https://twitter.com/NaichacaCycling/status/1678114661223342080
 
Some have found 7w/kg. Someone said what about ammatti, and he replied " I can't tell you why Ammatti has a different value. I have no idea. All I can say is that I am 1000% confident my value is correct. "


View: https://twitter.com/NaichacaCycling/status/1678114661223342080
Naichaca overvalue a lot. He also overvalued what vingegaard did on col marie blanque.

View: https://twitter.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1676650170522501121



View: https://twitter.com/NaichacaCycling/status/1676712962915192833


Ammattipyoraily gave a result of 7 w/kg.
Naichaca gave a result of 7.25 w/kg.
 
For as much as these guys work is interesting, one must remember that they do not have access to precise data about a lot of the paramaters needed for the calculation. If they wanted to present a more scientific work they would have to at least include a interval of confidence (a single number as no scientific value) in which the real value is estimated to be inside with a given (68% or 95% generally) probability, taking in to account how precise the estimate on any of the parameters is. Also Naichaca (whose ego is apparently as big as Vinge VO2 max) uses standard power for a 60 kg rider, so Pogi being heavier partially, but not totally, justifies the lower estimates made by Ammaty
 
If anything it looks like Pog rode at those numbers he can do and was fairly consistent. Stayed within his limits.

Vinge just had a super-day on stage 5. Maybe he can have it again. Maybe he had to pay for that effort, the rest of week.
Pog is really consistent, he did also similar numbers in the last 4 kms of tourmalet.

View: https://twitter.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1677741102420353026


I also believe Vingegaard had to pay for the efforts he did on stage 5 and 6.
 
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I really don't trust these calcualtions at all. I've actually done an algorithm to calculate power and compared calculations with measurements. Done it on quite a wide range of samples, couple of tens of rides. I used completely theoretical approach (which means that I calculated all the factors - drag, wind resistance, etc.) and what I can say is that average calculated power is within 5% of average measured powerm, depending on the ride specifics. Rule of thumb is the steeper the climb, the better the results.

The problem are coefficients - wind resistance coefficient in particular. These coefficients mean that for the duration of the calculation, effect of air resistance, rolling resistance etc. remain unchanged. Change your position on the bike slightly and you get completely different results. Use different gearing and your transmission resistance will change. Use different air pressure... well, you get the idea. And I even used coefficient correction based on my past rides and measured power which those guys can't do cause they have no measured power data...
 
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Naichaca overvalue a lot. He also overvalued what vingegaard did on col marie blanque.

View: https://twitter.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1676650170522501121



View: https://twitter.com/NaichacaCycling/status/1676712962915192833


Ammattipyoraily gave a result of 7 w/kg.
Naichaca gave a result of 7.25 w/kg.
It doesn't matter. The numbers are in relation to Naichagas own previous estimations. Pogacar is putting out better numbers than previous years, which is also evident since he can now drop uncrashed Vingegaard, which he hasn't been able to in previous years.
 
You can find than answer in the topic "power data estimates for the climbing stages". Naichaca is very sensacionalist.

Pogacar is in the same shape of the last 2/3 years. He didn't do nothing that he hadn't done in the past. Pogacar doing 6.7/6.8 w/kg in 14/15 min is normal for him.
But like I said in the above post, these numbers are compared to his own estimations from previous years. Or did he only start overestimating them this year?
 
You always have to take watts estimates with a grain of salt, but from the climbing performances in the first week it actually looks like Pogacar is going better when there’s more fatigue in the legs.

On the last ~15 minutes of stage 9, Pogacar did a very similar (probably slightly better) performance to stage 5, while Vingegaard was significantly worse. The main difference being that Puy de Dôme is a 35min climb over-all and Marie Blanque is a 20min in climb.

On stage 6, Vingagaard’s Tourmalet effort was right in line with what he did on Marie Blanque, with Pogacar again slightly better. Then on Cautarets both riders understandably saw a bit of a drop-off because of the very hard stage they had had, but Vingegaard again had a much bigger drop in level compared to Pogacar.

So overall it would seem Pogacar did have a bit of an off day on stage 5, but otherwise has been much better at maintaining his numbers with more fatigue in the legs, even though that is contrary to the general assumption of their respective abilities.