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Race thread: 🇪🇸 Tour of Burgos 2026, Aug 4–8 (www.vueltaburgos.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Deschanel2032@lemmy.world to c/procycling@lemmy.world

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This ProSeries race takes place on the scorched by the sun plateaus around the city of Burgos in Castile.

This year, it doesn't look like there will much space for sprinters on this punchy race, the GC of which goes to a climber. The first stage is the traditional hectic finish in Burgos (sprinters-punchers have a chance there together with punchers-climbers), and the last one the traditional mountain finish at the lakes of Neila.

The official website is very thorough, and the technical guide even more: for example, for stage #1, it contains over 100 photos of the various curves, crossings and even of the manholes covers and cracks in the road!! 👍 👍

Riders

This is Gaudu's comeback to actual (?) competition. Since May, he's only started the National Championship in June, and the San Sebastian classic on Saturday, for 2 DNF... Let's see if he can put out this week something that justifies a bit of his salary...

There are quite a number of rather high profile contenders! F. Gall (🇦🇹 Decathlon), J. Vine (🇦🇺 UAE) if he can survive the usually stressing finishes of the first days without crashing, G. Ciccone (🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek), Pellizzari (🇮🇹 Bora), M. Rondel (🇫🇷 Tudor).

As outsiders, P. Sivakov (🇷🇺🇫🇷 UAE) already won the race, A. Eulalio (🇵🇹 Bahrain) will try to find his crazy Giro legs, J. Nordhagen🇳🇴 and B. Tulett🇬🇧 will defend Visma's chances, L. Bisiaux (🇫🇷 France) will supplement Gall, and M. Beloki (🇪🇸 EF) has just won the (much, much weaker) Tour de l'Ain.

Stages

Stage 1

165 km, D+ 1500m

The traditional punchy finish on the castle hill in Burgos, after the flattest stage.

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Stage 2

177 km, D+ 2300 m

A finish for long punchers on this murito.

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(yeah, I know, the less important climb got a larger picture 🙂)

Stage 3

183 km, D+ 3200 m

This stage and its almost-on-top-finish will very likely start sorting GC favourites. They won't be able to hide on this difficult Puerto del Escudo (a new one on this race, but it was apparently ridden a few times on the Vuelta).

Stage 4

178 km, D+ 1900 m

Can sprinters make it through this one in a front group? Otherwise, it looks like a good chance for breakaways, between 2 mountain stages.

The 'climbs' are not terrible at all today:

Finnish profile:

Stage 5 (last)

137 km, D+ 2900 m

The usual decisive finish on top.

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[–] Deschanel2032@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

Stage 2

177 km, D+ 2300 m

A finish for long punchers on this murito.

We had the usual breakaway, the last survivor of which, R. Belahoyte (🇫🇷 Total) was caught up by the peloton just before the start of the murito.

No one tried anything in the final climb, a good pace was made by successive teams, but nothing special and it was still a large peloton at the flamme rouge. Then there were much stronger accelerations, and in the end Onley (🇬🇧 Ineos) and Ciccone (🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek) detached for a long, side-by-side sprint! 👍

That's 2 Brits winning in a row. It doesn't look like Yorkshire landscape, though? 😄

Gall (🇦🇹 Decathlon) looked like he was a bit dropping in the acceleration of the last km, but he finished well.

Mario Aparicio (🇪🇸 Burgos) made it in the stage top-10.

Bjorn Koerdt (🇬🇧 Picnic) made it on both stages! It is clear he didn't understand the principle of being in the Picnic team 🤣

Pellizari was better today on a profile more for climbers and climbers-punchers than sprinters-punchers like yesterday. He was counted a split again, but a small one this time. Still, he is 40 seconds behind in GC now.

E. Mas (🇪🇸 Movistar) surprises everyone: 5^th^ yesterday, 3^rd^ today! I reckon he will disappoint when he will arrive on his favourite terrain 😆

M. Rondel (🇫🇷 Tudor), J. Vine (🇦🇺 UAE), and M. Beloki (🇪🇸 EF) were solid one again. B. Tulett (🇬🇧 Visma) and L. Bisiaux were okay; P. Sivakov (🇷🇺🇫🇷 UAE) and J. Nordhagen (🇳🇴 Visma) not so much.

A. Eulalio (🇵🇹 Bahrain) sank quite a bit (45 seconds); his teammate P. Bilbao🇪🇸 is now better ranked in GC.

Landa (🇪🇸 Soudal-QS) was dropped rather early and finished 2 minutes behind. 4 Euskatel-Euskadi riders did (much) better than him: I don't know what he will bring to them next year. ❓

The Gaudu comedy continues. It wasn't because yesterday finish suited Tronchon (🇫🇷 FDJ) better than him, that he just played the teammate. Today, on a profile better for him, he finished after 6 minutes, after having struggled on the previous 3^rd^ category hill (5%)... Final test tomorrow on yet another type of profile: a hard mountain climb (7 km at 9%!).

PS: again, I cannot upload pictures for tomorrow's stage 😞

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[–] Deschanel2032@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 3 months ago

The Gaudu comedy continues. It wasn’t because yesterday finish suited Tronchon (🇫🇷 FDJ) better than him, that he just played the teammate. Today, on a profile better for him, he finished after 6 minutes, after having struggled on the previous 3rd category hill (5%)… Final test tomorrow on yet another type of profile: a hard mountain climb (7 km at 9%!).

Nope. A nice display of grimaces while he was playing the early teammate, and he finishes 13 minutes behind.

Gaudu and Madouas can be reassigned to inflating tyres and greasing chains, until their contract expires. They will be the most expensive greasers in the world, but GFDJ can expect a better R.O.I. this way than by putting them on a bicycle.

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