Stage 6 of the Tour and already the 3rd more or less mountain stage. It's a bit of a mixture of the first two as it's an uphill finish like stage 4, while in terms of difficulty the only first category climb of the day, the Col de la Lusette much rather resembles the difficult of the mountains in stage 2. As the finish isn't quite on top of that climb though I once again don't expect a stage with big time gaps but one where a gc contender might lose a lot of time if he shows a weakness. Maybe we'll even see the first serious attacks of this Tour on the up to 15% steep ramps of the Col de la Lusette. Let's not forget, it is after all the last uphill finish until stage 13.
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Timetable:
Start: 12:10
Intermediate sprint: 15:09/15:01/14:54
Col de la Lusette: 16:50/16:36/16:23
Finish: 17:14/17:00/16:45
Climbs:
The first 140 km of the stage are almost entirely flat but once the climbing starts it starts properly. The first climb is the 3rd category Cap de Coste, but it's followed by the Mont Aigoual which is really one 34 km long climb split up into a 3rd category climb, the Col des Mourèzes, then after a short flat bit the hardest climb of the day, the 1st category Col de la Lusette, which has some nastily steep ramps towards its end and then after a short downhill section the 3-4% uphill drag to the Mont Aigoual.
General classification after Stage 5
Ps: @Devil's Elbow I hope it's alright I made the stage thread today, I was just really keen on discussing this one so I didn't wait any longer. I tried to keep it in your style though
Profile:
Map:
Timetable:
Start: 12:10
Intermediate sprint: 15:09/15:01/14:54
Col de la Lusette: 16:50/16:36/16:23
Finish: 17:14/17:00/16:45
Climbs:
The first 140 km of the stage are almost entirely flat but once the climbing starts it starts properly. The first climb is the 3rd category Cap de Coste, but it's followed by the Mont Aigoual which is really one 34 km long climb split up into a 3rd category climb, the Col des Mourèzes, then after a short flat bit the hardest climb of the day, the 1st category Col de la Lusette, which has some nastily steep ramps towards its end and then after a short downhill section the 3-4% uphill drag to the Mont Aigoual.
General classification after Stage 5
- Adam Yates
- Primoz Roglic + 0.03
- Tadej Pogacar + 0.07
- Guillaume Martin + 0.09
- Egan Bernal + 0.13
- Tom Dumoulin s.t.
- Nairo Quintana s.t.
- Esteban Chaves s.t.
- Miguel Ángel López s.t.
- Romain Bardet s.t.
- Sam Bennett 123
- Peter Sagan 114
- Alexander Kristoff 93
- Caleb Ewan 75
- Matteo Trentin 70
- Benoît Cosnefroy 23
- Michael Gogl 12
- Primoz Roglic 10
- Tadej Pogacar 8
- Quentin Pacher 6
- Tadej Pogacar
- Egan Bernal + 0.06
- Enric Mas + 0.15
- Sergio Higuita + 0.34
- Marc Hirschi +4.03
Ps: @Devil's Elbow I hope it's alright I made the stage thread today, I was just really keen on discussing this one so I didn't wait any longer. I tried to keep it in your style though