Paris - Roubaix 2022, one day monument, April 17

[titan31]

The gap is getting way too big now again. That bloody crash has fecked things.

 

[Tim Cahill]

I love the cycling tradition of random known figures coming to one day races to help out the team.

Remember them panning the camera to a very casual looking Colombian one year in Dwars(?) and it was Nairo Quintana fist pumping whilst holding a wheel on the side of a cobbled berg.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

One year: Rainy, muddy, chaos
Next: Sunny,dusty, windy, chaos
Man this race is great!

 

[titan31]

So there anither group there. Wish ES would actually commentate on the race rusher than an interview

 

[Samamba]

Doubt the vdp peloton is coming back.

 

[Salvarani]

QS must love the situation atm

 

[titan31]

Well the 2nd group are the ones who managed to get through the crash without much delay. Most of the former 1st peloton has now merged with the 2nd peloton to become the 3rd group because they were all held up by the crash.

Looks like it wasn't so I've no idea how the VDP group dropped that much as there looks like a very sizable remainder of the crashed peleton still there.

 

[Salvarani]

MVDP has to go crazy later but I think he will drop anyone that will tryna following him

He might run out of steam before he reaches the front

 

[Ilmaestro99]

So there are 3 groups on the road

-lead group
-First chase with Mohoric
-WVA, VDP , kwiato group

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

The gap is getting way too big now again. That bloody crash has fecked things.

big favourites being behind but not absurdly so sets the race up perfectly. more possible permutations, more suspense, more chaos, better to watch

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Big 'ECW' chants as Lewis Askey rides past

Did he hit somebody with a steel chair or something?!

 

[titan31]

big favourites being behind but not absurdly so sets the race up perfectly. more possible permutations, more suspense, more chaos, better to watch

I think that gap is too big now myself. The big favourites won't have much domestiques left soon and that 1st group is going to get large again. We're going to have over a 2 minute gap soon which they're not pulling back. This needed to be under a minute really at Arenberg.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Lol, QS now have the most riders in the front group with 4.
Cheers, Ineos.

 

[Samamba]

Winner is in the first group

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Group van der Poel is toast.

My god what a stupid way to miss a chance

 

[Salvarani]

Soon 2 minutes...

 

[glassmoon]

this is over for VdP's group imho

 

[Billie]

Crash has decided the outcome. Blocked roads are the worst

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

MVDP has to go crazy later but I think he will drop anyone that will tryna following him

He might run out of steam before he reaches the front

Oh no, he is not winning or bridging this. VDP lost the race by chatting in the back after 20 kilometers. Clear as that

 

[titan31]

Crash has decided the outcome. Blocked roads are the worst

Yup. Gap at that point was small enough that the favourites could have rode across themselves on a cobbled section easily. I can't see them getting back now at all

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

I think the VDP fans are writing him off too early. He’s going to go full berserker on the sectors.

 

[glassmoon]

Crash has decided the outcome. Blocked roads are the worst

they've missed the split long before that crash though... stupid mistake imho

 

[Billie]

Yup. Gap at that point was small enough that the favourites could have rode across themselves on a cobbled section easily. I can't see them getting back now at all

There were 6kms of normal roads after that pavé section so everything would have come back together.

Crash happened at the worst moment for the peloton. If it had happened 5 kms earlier it wouldn't have held them up but they had just gotten close enough for it to end their race.

 

[Salvarani]

Oh no, he is not winning or bridging this. VDP lost the race by chatting in the back after 20 kilometers. Clear as that

Still more than 40km of cobbles to go.

Could be more crashes. Mechanicals. Riders running out of energy. This race takes no prisoners.

I wouldnt count out those behind, until we see situation of the race after Arenberg.

 

[glassmoon]

lol Ineos crashing on each sector so far