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Time gaps on flat stages
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| rathdred |
Posted on 22-08-2009 15:33
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Hi all
Im fairly new to the game and was wondering how big a time gap has to be on a flat stage before it counts. Ive played a couple of flat races/stages where i've won by ~20-30 seconds but when the results page comes up after the 3D race ends, the gap hasn't counted.
Is it a distance or an amount of time that matters?
Sorry if the question has been asked before (i searched but couldnt find anything) |
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| JDC |
Posted on 22-08-2009 16:07
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In a flat stage the minimum difference between groups is 20 seconds. |
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| Smoku |
Posted on 22-08-2009 16:35
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More than that, while the time differences for the classification are measured between the first riders of each group, the time difference used by the "referees" to distinguish between two groups is actually measured between the last rider of the first group and the first lider of the second group. This way you may see a difference of over one minute between two groups and have them timed as one group only because the difference between the particular riders never extended over 20 seconds.
BTW, the minimum difference is 10 for hill and 7 seconds for mountain stages. |
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| rathdred |
Posted on 22-08-2009 16:49
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Smoku wrote:
More than that, while the time differences for the classification are measured between the first riders of each group, the time difference used by the "referees" to distinguish between two groups is actually measured between the last rider of the first group and the first lider of the second group. This way you may see a difference of over one minute between two groups and have them timed as one group only because the difference between the particular riders never extended over 20 seconds.
BTW, the minimum difference is 10 for hill and 7 seconds for mountain stages. Thanks for that.
It explains why the gap wasnt recorded because there were a couple of riders between me and the peleton that would have meant that there was no gap bigger than 20sec |
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| golance123 |
Posted on 22-08-2009 17:14
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Thanks smoku I never knew that. Hey you learn something new everyday! |
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| drd23 |
Posted on 23-08-2009 00:37
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Thanks smoku, i didnt know that. It will save me from getting angry at the 'referees' next time |
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| Smoku |
Posted on 23-08-2009 00:58
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It may be useful if you're making brakeways or attacks in the lat kms. If you see one of you're riders falling down between your escapee and the pursue, slow him down, to something around 5% effort so he would cruise with the peloton to the finish. This way your riders don't cross the line between You and the chase and you have better chance of actually receiving the time advantage You've gained. Thats especially important with short stage races with no mountains where a succesful breakaway of 30 secs might mean winning the whole race. |
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| Ozzy |
Posted on 23-08-2009 01:16
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That thing will be changed in PCM.Daily DB we're workin on at the moment. Gap on flat stages will be lowered by 25%. |
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