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Vuelta al Tachira - Discussion
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 05-11-2025 09:15
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 Vuelta al Tachira (C2) Discussion
Here we are in Venezuela for the Vuelta al Tachira. 9 stages of all different terrain. The Continental Grand Tour if you will!
4 flat stages, 1 hilly stage, 1 MTT and 3 large mountain stages to finish off the race and find out who will win the overall.
| 1 | Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev | Simba Cement - Tanga Fresh | 29h31'28 | | 2 | Thymen Arensman | Gjensidige Pro Cycling Team | + 3'10 | | 3 | Luis Enrique Lemus Davila | Spark Team NZ | + 3'22 | | 4 | Mikel Iturria | Euskotren - Pays Basque | + 3'26 | | 5 | Harm Vanhoucke | Team Würth MODYF | + 3'31 | | 6 | Dion Smith | Duvel-Tsingtao | s.t. | | 7 | Richard Antonio Carapaz | Zain-Omantel | + 3'50 | | 8 | Inigo Elosegui | Newton Foundation p/b Zwift | + 4'21 | | 9 | Milos Borisavljevic | Zain-Omantel | + 4'27 | | 10 | George Bennett | Spark Team NZ | + 4'28 |
| Rider | FL | MT | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | AC | FT | DH |  Seboka | 61 | 80 | 71 | 62 | 53 | 63 | 70 | 73 | 67 | 75 | 84 |  Munoz | 66 | 79 | 76 | 73 | 66 | 72 | 72 | 74 | 71 | 70 | 61 |  Merchan | 63 | 79 | 75 | 71 | 59 | 68 | 69 | 72 | 69 | 69 | 63 |  Cattaneo | 66 | 78 | 72 | 66 | 75 | 70 | 74 | 71 | 64 | 58 | 60 |  Habtemichael | 67 | 78 | 76 | 74 | 74 | 74 | 73 | 76 | 66 | 68 | 69 |  Smith | 69 | 78 | 77 | 75 | 68 | 72 | 74 | 75 | 74 | 75 | 71 |  Fabbro | 65 | 78 | 77 | 75 | 67 | 71 | 72 | 74 | 73 | 74 | 70 | | Quintana | 64 | 78 | 74 | 70 | 67 | 71 | 70 | 70 | 60 | 69 | 57 |  Buitrago | 67 | 78 | 77 | 76 | 66 | 70 | 74 | 76 | 80 | 76 | 67 | | Borisavljevic | 68 | 77 | 75 | 73 | 74 | 74 | 74 | 75 | 65 | 64 | 68 | | Prado | 72 | 77 | 75 | 73 | 74 | 73 | 73 | 75 | 70 | 72 | 70 | | Evans | 66 | 77 | 75 | 72 | 74 | 70 | 72 | 73 | 67 | 67 | 62 | | Rachid | 70 | 77 | 74 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 73 | 76 | 68 | 69 | 66 | | Tenorio | 61 | 77 | 73 | 69 | 73 | 68 | 66 | 69 | 57 | 77 | 61 | | Ciccone | 67 | 77 | 75 | 73 | 71 | 70 | 70 | 73 | 69 | 59 | 59 |  Tejada | 68 | 77 | 75 | 73 | 71 | 72 | 76 | 72 | 70 | 66 | 64 |  Potocki | 68 | 77 | 75 | 72 | 70 | 74 | 71 | 75 | 64 | 66 | 69 |  Power | 67 | 77 | 74 | 70 | 66 | 77 | 76 | 79 | 63 | 61 | 65 |
An interesting race which has a very important mountain time trial which will separate the field. This is where Seboka will struggle to capitilise on his superior mountain stat. Cattaneo looks like a strong contendor with his great TT stat. However, he will have a strong contest from Habtemichael who could take some important time in the hills.
This race is very wide open and could be won by a handful of riders. There is no stand out favourite here and should prove to be a very exciting GC battle. All I know is the mountain TT will be critical in this race!
| Rider | FL | SP | AC | ST | RS | RC | | Perera | 71 | 79 | 80 | 69 | 73 | 77 | | Gibbons | 75 | 78 | 78 | 73 | 72 | 73 | | Marin | 74 | 78 | 78 | 73 | 73 | 76 | | Silva | 75 | 77 | 78 | 69 | 70 | 77 | | Harrison | 71 | 77 | 80 | 72 | 69 | 74 | | Ganjkhanlou | 73 | 77 | 79 | 70 | 70 | 76 |  Major | 74 | 77 | 78 | 74 | 70 | 74 |  Page | 71 | 76 | 78 | 73 | 70 | 75 |  Russo | 73 | 76 | 78 | 73 | 73 | 76 | | Eislers | 74 | 76 | 75 | 71 | 68 | 74 | | Mudgway | 70 | 76 | 78 | 71 | 66 | 76 | | Sinclair | 70 | 76 | 75 | 69 | 70 | 74 | | Andersson | 71 | 76 | 76 | 74 | 73 | 76 | | Kelly | 74 | 75 | 77 | 69 | 73 | 66 |
The sprint stages will be quite exciting. Perera should be the big favourite. He comes with great support as well.
Gibbons, Marin, Silva, Harrison, Ganjkhanlou and Major will all be competitors for the stages as well and could cause an upset for the favourites.
The other competitors for a stage or the top 5 are Page, Russo, Eislers, Mudgway, Sinclair, Andersson and Kelly. All riders should have a chance at competiting but it will be hard to beat Perera.
Should be an exciting race in all aspects and very excited for it!
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 05-11-2025 10:01
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Hoping for some fun racing, if Potocki gets any GC points that's an added bonus!
Thanks for the preview Jak!
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| Imladrik |
Posted on 05-11-2025 10:02
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Thanks for the preview!
We're here to fight for stages, maybe the KoM, and see what Berthet can do in this type of races.
Not sure why I brought Politt without a flat ITT and Darbynian though.
Good luck everyone!
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 05-11-2025 10:03
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First things first, this might be a disaster for Gibbons top 3 favorite and we brought no sprint train so I can't see that going well have to rearrange his hopes to just get some top 10s and hope we get better startlists that allow him to surf the wheels in the future
Now Smith on the other hand this really couldn't have been a better startlists for him to ride against I really fancy his chances in the TT (id say might be a MM not a MO TT) which will suit him really well looking at that startlists. Having no other climbers that are high STA is basically ideal and his high hill stat could really help if one of the last few stages end in an uphill sprint overall very excited should be a top 5 but I think we can now dream of a win |
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 05-11-2025 10:37
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Seems like a decent opportunity for Munoz to get away with something, hopefully he's able to do so. Great preview, jakstar!
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| redordead |
Posted on 05-11-2025 10:39
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Habtemichael, Buitrago, Borisavljevic. Difficult to root for everyone, but there are three spots on the podium 
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| Heine |
Posted on 05-11-2025 10:45
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Schultz not even being mentioned scares me for our general results from this. I'll have to hope he can surprise and get a good result in the GC
Other than that, will be interesting to see what Russo can do!
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 05-11-2025 12:37
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Thanks for the preview Jakstar.
First Kraftwerk appearances for both Habtemichael and Harrison.
Hoping the Hill and Mountain TT stages allow Habtemichael to gain some time.
Anything from Harrison will be a bonus.
We need a result here to get our points tally back on track.
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| jph27 |
Posted on 05-11-2025 19:00
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Back to C2 for the first time since 2020! Tachira was the first GC win for my team (Jocelin Maillet back in 2014 as La Vie Claire) so couldn't miss the opportunity to ride it again. No great GC hopes but maybe Page can surprise in the sprints. |
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 05-11-2025 19:33
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We've got good history at this race but don't think we'll be adding to it this year unless we get really lucky, at least it's the last of our C2 races for the year.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 05-11-2025 21:52
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Stage hunting. but don't count out the Gonzalez/JMO duo to make something work - i hope.
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 05-11-2025 23:27
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Glad to be back in Tachira. Havent been here for a while. Dont have any expectstions just looking to see what we can muster from this trip.
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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 06-11-2025 05:34
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Looks like a wide open race this year  Best of luck everyone!
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| Heine |
Posted on 06-11-2025 06:48
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Don't know if I should be happy that the game thinks Russo is strong enough to warrant a train, or if I should be scared by it by really not having any leadout riders...
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 06-11-2025 09:29
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Not the best start but kept out of trouble. Hopefully Mudgway can give it a go tomorrow 
Congrats Perera! Knew he would dominate 
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 06-11-2025 09:52
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As expected from Gibbons, a very a bad manager's choice here to not bring a leadout, but congrats to Ethiopian for a dominant sprint |
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 06-11-2025 10:35
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Nice to see our jersey out front even if Al Mutaiwei couldn't survive long enough to reach the sprint point and the bonus seconds.
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 06-11-2025 12:26
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Always love to see a Madushanka stage win congrats to dippo!
Thanks for the report hopefully the young guns and Potocki pulls through on some of the next ones or this will be a long race for us
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 06-11-2025 19:43
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Exceptional leadout from the Machine there congrats Dave !
Good to get some points on the board for Gibbons did well to manage to make up some places there from a bad position |
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| jph27 |
Posted on 06-11-2025 20:45
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Not a bad start, around what I think we would have expected in this field. Nice to see Mihkels up there and getting to wear a 'special' jersey, hopefully the first of many! |
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