Just finished one of the best PCM stages I've played in a long while.
Stage 6, Tour de Suisse 2014.
Quintana is my leader, building for the Tour. He lost some time in the hilly stages and in the prologue, currently sat 22nd overall at around 2 minutes behind leader Kreuziger. F.Schleck is 2nd with teammate Andy a minute or so further back.
Had Sarmiento in top form in the top 10, so tried to stir things up with a long range Quintana effort. Unfortunately couldn't get any team mate in the break so ended up attacking with Quintana on the first climb with 190km+ to go, just as a test move to shred to bunch. Sky set a steady tempo but let him go!
So Nairo rode about 50 effort and built up a surprisingly big lead - over 12 minutes to the bunch at one point with some other attackers in between. It was at this point I checked the game was on Hard - it was - as on easier levels you get the AI acting funny with gaps etc. The bunch was down to around 60 riders and 9 mins behind Quintana at the big unclassfied climb at 60km to go - then - attack Andy Schleck!
Big reaction from the bunch shredded it, only 20 guys left, all the favourites taking turns for over 50km! Took a big chunk of time from Quintana down to about 5 minutes at the bottom of the final climb. Then there were a huge number of attacks in the favourites group and Frank got within 3 mins of Quintana - I'm thinking he is toast.
But the last 5km of the climb all the favourites slowed, all the chasing of Quintana and attacking had killed them! Frank was the only one with any strength left to chase but even he lost time to Quintana in the final 10kms, Nairo had had a relatively easy ride out front and still had some energy whilst the favourites were all dead! Kreuziger completely cracked, the whole team worked all day for him and he lost over 5 min in the last 10km!!
So Quintana completed a 190km solo win and took the yellow jersey!