Vuelta 2018 Stage 5:Granada - Roquetas de Mar 188.7km

[Robert5091]

Chapeau Rudy Molard & Simon Clarke!

A win for EF & Red for Rudy - boost in French TV viewing figures?

 

[Robert5091]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bouhanni-and-vuelta-race-leader-molard-both-handed-time-penalties/

The new leader of the Vuelta a España, Rudy Molard (Groupama-FDJ), has had his lead over Team Sky's Michal Kwiatkowski dramatically cut by a third following so-called 'illegal feeding' on stage 5.

For safety reasons, riders are not allowed to take food or drink products from their team cars inside the last 20km of a race – unless a pre-announced lesser distance is decided upon by the race commissaires.

The rule prevents cars from coming up to their riders in the closing stages of a race when attacks and tactics are often in full swing.

Molard was handed a 20-second time penalty in the general classification – a normal punishment for the offence – for having taken a feed from his team car inside the permitted distance to the finish of stage 5 in Roquetas de Mar on Wednesday, which cuts his overall lead to second-placed Kwiatkowski from the original gap of 1:01 to just 41 seconds.

AG2R's Alexis Gougeard & Katusha's Ian Boswell also got 20 seconds penalty.

 

[Finn84]

Would Bakelants go to the low-profile jersey winners? Before winning that stage (and gaining the jersey) in Corsica, he hadn't won any pro race of x.1 or higher. Couple of top-10s in Eneco and TDU though.