Benji Naesen

There's the kind of car pacing where you're coming back to the peloton, you're in the race caravan, you're in the wheel of a car, and that car has to stay in position, basically, because it can't move up without permission of the commissary to do so.

That is what was happening here.

That is different to me than car pacing with a car that brings riders back to the caravan at the back of the peloton.

That should be fine.

What success and esteem did here, if you start disqualifying riders for that, you have to do so with 20 to 40 riders every day, I think.

You haven't seen it, so.

That's what happened here.

And it also, it wasn't the longest period in the race either.

I think massive credits to how Decathlon brought success back here, and that one moment in the return is being over-discussed, and in my opinion, undeservedly.

But yeah, success gets back.

We get a situation where that breakaway's still up the road, but the gap is coming down, and we're now slowly but surely coming to that final climb.

And Patrick, this is why, where I launch you into the breakaway of this podcast, it's time for you to take over.

You've seen the race.

The Grand Colombi is coming.

Oh, I gotta say, I saw two pacing strategies here, and I think you saw the same.

On one end, you've got the Del Toro, Jebel, Mobra strategy done by multiple riders here, where Del Toro, but also Jorgensen are taking that on.

Then you've got Ayuso stomping pedals the second that steep section hits, and he gets a gap on the other, sure, where...

Ben Tollett on the wheel, which I didn't really get.

In hindsight, maybe the idea is that then Tollett has a bit of an advantage on Jorgensen by the time Jorgensen gets back, but if you think the pacing strategy of Jorgensen is better, then Tollett should also be doing that pacing strategy is my thought process there.

But either way, Ayuso's now basically gone.