Having moved into the general lead of the race on yesterday’s stage to Valle Castellana, Jonas Vingegaard is ready to seal his basic classification victory at Tirreno-Adriatico after a dominant stage win on the slopes of Monte Petrano on stage six.
The Visma-Lease a Bike rider additional prolonged his lead over each Juan Ayuso (UAE Staff Emirates) and Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) within the general standings, as he attacked away from each of them with round 6km to go, with neither of them capable of go along with him.
Vingegaard now leads the final classification by a minute and 24 seconds going into the ultimate stage round San Benedetto del Tronto tomorrow, which is anticipated to be a stage for the sprinters, that means that barring any crashes he’ll win the race general.
The stage began with a robust nine-man breakaway going clear, which included the likes of Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal Fast-Step), Michał Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers), Iván García Cortina (Movistar) and Andreas Leknessund (Uno-X), in addition to Richard Carapaz and Ben Healy from EF Schooling-EasyPost.
Through the breakaway formation section of the stage there was a small crash within the peloton, which noticed a number of riders go down together with Max Poole (dsm-firmenich PostNL), who was compelled to desert the race after being in eleventh place within the general standings previous to the beginning of the stage.
With round 40km to go there have been simply 4 riders left within the breakaway, as Ben Healy set a brutal tempo on the entrance of the group in service of Richard Carapaz, with solely García Cortina and Leknessund capable of observe as their hole started to fret the peloton behind.
Healy then known as it a day on the Moria climb, with García Cortina additionally dropping off from the group. Leknessund and Carapaz then labored collectively within the valley street to the foot of Monte Petrano, however the Norwegian rider was unable to maintain tempo with the Colombian as they hit the decrease slopes of the climb.
With the peloton not far behind, Jai Hindley attacked from the primary group with 6.6km to go, with Jonas Vingegaard and Juan Ayuso in his wheel, as they caught Carapaz earlier than the Danish rider then launched his decisive assault a number of hundred metres later, with no person capable of maintain his wheel.
Alone on the entrance of the race, Vingegaard continued to increase his lead over the 2 chasers, with Tom Pidcock pacing for his Ineos Grenadiers teammate Thymen Arensman within the group behind.
In the long run, it was all too straightforward for Vingegaard, as he pushed on to the end and celebrated his dominant victory as he crossed the road in Maglia Azzurra.
Behind him, Ayuso got here from behind Hindley to beat him within the dash for second place for the second day in a row, with the Australian compelled to accept third place as soon as once more.
In the meantime, Ayuso’s teammate Isaac del Toro (UAE Staff Emirates) had made his approach up by the teams to take fourth place on the stage, after having beforehand been dropped, which moved him as much as fourth general.
The stage victory virtually sealed Vingegaard’s general victory, as with over a minute’s lead forward of second place Ayuso within the basic classification, it is rather unlikely that he’ll lose the jersey on tomorrow’s dash stage round San Benedetto del Tronto.
RESULTS: TIRRENO-ADRIATICO, STAGE SIX, SASSOFERRATO > MONTE PETRANO (180KM)
1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma-Lease a Bike, in 4:31:57
2. Juan Ayuso (Spa) UAE Staff Emirates, +26s
3. Jai Hindley (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe
4. Isaac del Toro (Mex) UAE Staff Emirates, +36s
5. Tom Pidcock (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers, +42s
6. Ben O’Connor (Aus) Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale
7. Lennard Kämna (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe, +46s
8. Thymen Arensman (Ned) Ineos Grenadiers
9. Cian Uijtdebroeks (Bel) Visma-Lease A Bike, +48s
10. Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain Victorious, +1:14
GENERAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE SIX
1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma-Lease a Bike, in 23:06:32
2. Juan Ayuso (Esp) UAE Staff Emirates, +1:24
3. Jai Hindley (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe, +1:52
4. Isaac del Toro (Mex) UAE Staff Emirates +2:20
5. Ben O’Connor (Aus) Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale +2:24
6. Thymen Arensman (Ned) Ineos Grenadiers +2:25
7. Cian Uijtdebroeks (Bel) Visma-Lease A Bike +3:10
8. Tom Pidcock (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers, +4:02
9. Lennard Kämna (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe, +4:05
10. Kévin Vaquelin (Fra) Arkéa-B&B Resorts, +4:24
