Critérium du Dauphiné stage 6 live - first of three days in the Alps
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Jumbo-Visma are chasing behind, but not overly hard and the gap is rising.
The names of the 14 riders are:
Nans Peters (AG2R-Citroën)
Jonathan Castroviejo (Ineos Grenadiers)
Andrea Bagioli and Dries Devenyns (Soudal Quick-Step)
Andrey Amador (EF Education-EasyPost)
Georg Zimmermann (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty)
Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar)
Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates)
Axel Zinglé (Cofidis)
Lawson Craddock (Jayco-AlUla)
Mathieu Burgaudeau, Matteo Vercher and Alexis Vuillermoz (TotalEnergies)
Simon Guglielmi (Arkéa Samsic)
With barely 100 kilometres to go, it finally looks like we finally have a break of the day.
Average speed of 49.5 kmh in the first hour. Slow, that ain't.
110 kilometres to go And shortly after the summit of the Côte de Clermont-en-Genevois, a 14-rider group goes clear. But on this ultra-fast and furious start to the stage, there's no guarantee they'll stay away.
Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies), the new leader of the Dauphine mountains classification, adds to his points total by crossing the summit of the Côte de Clermont-en-Genevois in first place.
Fraile is caught before the summit
The bunch has reeled in almost all the break, and three kilometres from the summit of the Côte de Clermont-en-Genevois, only one rider, Omar Fraile (Ineos Grenadiers) remains out in front. We're not quite back to square one, but almost.
Here's a shot of the 18-rider breakaway forming, with Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates) on the front. Critérium du Dauphiné stage 6: Matteo Trentin leads an early break of 18 (Image credit: Getty )
Jumbo-Visma are chasing. Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) is the biggest threat on GC of the 18 breakaways. The Briton is 2:55 back on race leader Jonas Vingegaard and eleventh on GC.
The lead group of 18 has managed to get away from the bunch and has a lead of 25 seconds, but it's a fair bet that it'll splinter on the Cat 2 climb, the Côte de Clermont-en-Genevois, the race is now tackling. Here's a full list of our leaders for now, which include the man who's been in most of the breaks so far, Fredrik Dversnes (Uno X)
Simon Guglielmi and Lukasz Owsian (Arkéa-Samsic)
Fredrik Dversnes (Uno X)
Omar Fraile (Ines Grenadiers)
Greg Van Avermaet (AG2R-Citroën)
Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious)
Omar Fraile (Ineos Grenadiers)
Andrea Bagioli (Soudal-QuickStep)
Olivier Le Gac (Groupama-FDJ)
James Shaw (EF Education-EasyPost)
Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar)
Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates)
Eddy Finé (Cofidis)
Harry Sweeny (Lotto Dstny)
Lawson Craddock (Jayco-AlUla)
Matteo Vercher and Alexis Vuillermoz (Total Energies),
Florian Stork (Team DSM)
Gianmarco Garofoli (Astana Qazaqstan)
The race is five kilometres from the foot of the first categorized climb of the day, the Côte de Clermont-en-Genevois (Cat.2, 4.7km, 7.5%).
130 kilometres to go 18 riders off the front now, 40 kilometres covered at a jawdropping average speed of 53 kmh.
Grondin's abandon means Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies) is now the provisional leader of the mountains ranking. But with two second cat. and two third cat. climbs on today's menu, Latour's continuing to hold on that ranking by the end of the stage is anything but a given.
Another abandon, mountains classification leader Donovan Grondin (Arkéa-Samsic). The peloton is still together, but the attacks are still coming thick and fast.
The official race website reports the first abandon of the day: Natnael Tesfazion (Trek Segafredo). 134 riders left in the race.
150 kilometres to go 20 kilometres into the race and still no break.
There are more than 3,000 metres of vertical climbing in today's stage, but rather than save their energy for later, the race is having anything but a sedate start as the battle for the break rolls on and on. Fredrik Dversnes (Uno-X) is one of those trying to get in the move, but so far, it's no dice for anybody.
Three of the four classification leaders at today's start: L-R - Christophe Laporte (points); Jonas Vingegaard (overall); Donovan Grondin (mountains). (Image credit: Getty)
160 kilometres to go Multiple attacks so far in the race, but nothing's sticking.
The weather right now is cloudy with showers, temperatures a balmy 21.4C. Little wind. Up in the Alps, though, at today's highest altitude of 1,486 metres above sea level at the summit of the Col des Aravis, it's 16 degrees. Rain was initially forecast for the stage, but it looks set to stay dry for now.
On today’s menu: Km 52.8: climb: Côte de Clermont-en-Genevois (Cat.2, 4.7km, 7.5%) Km 141.2: sprint: Saint-Jean-de-Sixt Km 151.9: climb: Col des Aravis (Cat.2, 5.7km, 7.8%) Km 166.7: climb: Côte de Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe (Cat.3, 3.2km, 6.1%) Km 170.2: climb: Crest-Voland (Cat.3, 2.3km, 6.6%)
Stage 6 of the 2023 Critérium du Dauphiné is now underway. 170.2 kilometres left to race.
One non-starter confirmed so far: sprinter Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco-AIUIa). The peloton is down to 135 riders.
A reminder of our race leaders: Overall: Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) Mountains: Donovan Grondin (Arkéa-Samsic) Points: Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma) Best Young Rider: Mikkel Bjerg (UAE Team Emirates) Teams: UAE Team Emirates
The peloton is currently riding on the neutralised section. Racing properly gets underway at 1220 CET.
And here's the latest GC top 10 classification, courtesy of our colleagues at FirstCycling (Image credit: FirstCycling)
Just while we're waiting for the race to get underway, here's a chance to look back at our race report on the dramatic events of stage 5.
Critérium du Dauphiné: Jonas Vingegaard rides solo to stage 5 win and GC lead (Image credit: Getty)
And here's what the riders will see when they reach kilometre 0. Hopefully the weather will stay dry for the rest of the day, though that's not thought to be likely. 🤩👋 Bonjour Nantua, quelle vue 🤩👋 Hello Nantua, what a view #Dauphiné pic.twitter.com/TolazUQEgRJune 9, 2023 See more
Racing is set to get underway in roughly 20 minutes time, starting with a 10 minute, 4.6 kilometre neutralised section.
Source: Cyclingnews
