Up There? He won today!!!!!!!! Daryl Impey (GreenEdge) won stage 2 of the Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco with a dramatic solo effort in the final kilometre. The 27-year-old South African led the peloton through the flamme rouge, got a slight gap, and hung on by a bike length for the victory as chaos reigned in the field behind the solo GreenEdge rider. http://cdn2.media.cyclingnews.futurecdn.net//2012/04/03/2/impey_winner_stage_2_600.jpg The Astana squad seemingly had the endgame of stage 2 under control as the team brought back Nerz, the solo escapee, at the summit of the day's final climb situated 9.3km from the finish. Astana's Enrico Gasparotto set the pace on the descent to Vitoria-Gasteiz with four teammates in tow at the head of the peloton as the Kazakhstani ProTeam worked to set-up Francesco Gavazzi for the expected field sprint finale. Lampre-ISD and then Movistar were tucked in behind Astana, laying in wait. While the team kept themselves out of trouble on the winding descent, it may have been too much, too soon, as Astana ran out of horsepower over the final, flat kilometres of the stage. With 1.5km to go Astana was overrun at the head of affairs with GreenEdge moving to the front in the approach to the flamme rouge. Taking advantage of the confusion, Daryl Impey slipped off the front as no lead-out trains emerged to set the pace and despite never having a lead of more than a few seconds the peloton would not bring him back in the charge to the line. http://cdn0.media.cyclingnews.futurecdn.net//2012/04/03/2/impey_past_race_happy_600.jpg
