DavidB Posted March 6, 2008 Posted March 6, 2008 Good morning all from a hot and windfree Paarl for the start of the 3rd day of the MTN Giro del Capo. We are watching the setup here from the Media truck and will bring you updates through the day. Todays stage is 174km taking in the Franschoek Pass and Du Toits Kloof Pass
DavidB Posted March 6, 2008 Author Posted March 6, 2008 Its going to be a scorcher today and I suspect we will see some great racing over the climbs. To Guy B I send greetings from Buurman!!! Riders busy signing on at the moment and vibe is building here!
JimmyB Posted March 6, 2008 Posted March 6, 2008 Fantastic David. We will be on the road 3km's from Franschhoek with our harvesting gear cheering the guys. Fantastic.
DavidB Posted March 6, 2008 Author Posted March 6, 2008 Ok off to get the race underway. Racing begins at 09:30
DavidB Posted March 6, 2008 Author Posted March 6, 2008 just over 20km and first report. There has been a number of attacks but nothing managed to get away. All breaks being chased down. We expect the action to happen on the first climb.
DavidB Posted March 6, 2008 Author Posted March 6, 2008 Fisrt points prime won by Rider no 27 Voctor Mironov of the UCI acedamy team
DavidB Posted March 6, 2008 Author Posted March 6, 2008 first prime sprint was in Franschoek, riders are now on the climb.
DavidB Posted March 6, 2008 Author Posted March 6, 2008 riders over the climb with 2 man break away. One of the riders is Felix Cardenas. waiting on KOM
DavidB Posted March 6, 2008 Author Posted March 6, 2008 ok news off the Road... small break that went over Franschoek has been caught and the peleton is in Villiersdorp.
Sammajoor Posted March 6, 2008 Posted March 6, 2008 Just got this of Neotels site General classification after stage 2 1 Christian Pfannberger (Aut) Barloworld 6.17.502 Johannes Kachelhoffer (RSA) House of Paints 0.583 Jacques J van Rensburg (RSA) Team Neotel 1.024 Christopher Froome (Ken) Barloworld 5 Felix Cardenas (Col) Barloworld 6 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 2.277 David George (RSA) Team MTN 2.348 Ciar?n Power (Irl) Pezula Racing 2.489 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team Kuota - Senges 10 Ian McLeod (RSA) Team MTN 4.04
DavidB Posted March 6, 2008 Author Posted March 6, 2008 breal away now at 20sec... riders are Cardenas, Mcleod,De Ketele, Stander, knox
DavidB Posted March 6, 2008 Author Posted March 6, 2008 riders at 80km into ride, temp on the road in places now over close to 40 C
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