Congratulations to Sepp Kuss for winning the stage in grand style and to Lenny Martinez for taking the leaders jersey.
Great stage. This Vuelta edition is living up to expectations and has the Tour vibes. JV played it perfectly. Kuss in a big breakaway with half of the JV working hard for him. SOQ likely exhausted themself on this stage. Likely two team members from the breakaway should have been pulled back ASAP. While Kuss was winning in grand style another battle at the back on where Roglič decided to stress test Remco and succeeded. Remco limiting the damages by pacing himself good. Jonas helped to distance Mas. So all in all a perfect storm JV produced and resulting to such unorthodox tactics really profiting from it. ITT will tell if Kuss can win the overall or not. It's possible. Martinez is a bit of unknown too. Lets not forget it's only week one hence there is much more to come. Looking forward to that.