The Belgian is ready to give his best in order to defend the jersey in the weekend’s tough mountain stages.

Another day, another performance for Remco Evenepoel at the Spanish Grand Tour; by retaining La Roja Friday afternoon, he became, at the age of 22 years and 220 days, the youngest rider since the inaugural edition in 1935 to lead the general classification for eight consecutive days. It happened at the end of another hot stage, which took the bunch from the picturesque city of Ronda to Montilla, in the province of Cordoba, over 168.4 rolling kilometers.

The high temperatures were the main difficulty of the day, which came down to an uphill bunch sprint after being animated for almost four hours by a three-man breakaway. The entire Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team stayed around Evenepoel at all times, keeping him out of the wind and well-positioned, before escorting the Belgian safely home through the final hectic kilometers.

“It’s been a hot day and nervous at times in the peloton, but overall, a good stage for us, and I am proud to continue wearing this jersey, one of the most beautiful in cycling. Now I will try to recover as best as possible and be ready for the hard weekend that we have ahead. The heat and the fatigue could play a role, but our goal remains keeping the red jersey and my advantage in the general classification. I think there will be attacks, and the plan is to do my best to defend the jersey in the hard mountains of Saturday and Sunday”, Remco explained after the stage.

 

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Race details

1 Mads Pedersen
Trek - Segafredo
3:46:01
2 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
0:00
3 Pascal Ackermann
UAE Team Emirates
0:00
4 Fred Wright
Bahrain - Victorious
0:00
5 Danny van Poppel
BORA - hansgrohe
0:00
6 Quentin Pacher
Groupama - FDJ
0:00
7 Jesús Ezquerra Muela
Burgos - BH
0:00
8 Maxim Van Gils
Lotto Soudal
0:00
9 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
0:00
10 Urko Berrade Fernandez
Equipo Kern Pharma
0:00
25 Remco Evenepoel
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
0:00
79 Ilan Van Wilder
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
1:00
89 Louis Vervaeke
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
1:20
108 Rémi Cavagna
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
2:23
116 Fausto Masnada
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
2:41
144 Dries Devenyns
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
6:45
1 Remco Evenepoel
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
48:11:10
2 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
2:41
3 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
3:03
4 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
4:06
5 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
4:53
6 Wilco Kelderman
BORA - hansgrohe
6:28
7 Miguel Ángel López Moreno
Astana Qazaqstan Team
6:56
8 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
7:18
9 Jan Polanc
UAE Team Emirates
8:00
10 Tao Geoghegan Hart
INEOS Grenadiers
8:05
45 Ilan Van Wilder
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
52:43
70 Fausto Masnada
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
1:22:35
73 Louis Vervaeke
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
1:26:34
109 Dries Devenyns
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
2:01:20
111 Rémi Cavagna
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
2:01:35
1 Mads Pedersen
Trek - Segafredo
247 pt
2 Marc Soler Giménez
UAE Team Emirates
96 pt
3 Fred Wright
Bahrain - Victorious
96 pt
4 Samuele Battistella
Astana Qazaqstan Team
91 pt
5 Remco Evenepoel
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
86 pt
6 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
81 pt
7 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
61 pt
8 Kaden Groves
Team BikeExchange - Jayco
60 pt
9 Pascal Ackermann
UAE Team Emirates
56 pt
10 Tim Merlier
Alpecin - Deceuninck
56 pt
18 Fausto Masnada
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
36 pt
56 Rémi Cavagna
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
15 pt
1 Jay Vine
Alpecin - Deceuninck
40 pt
2 Robert Stannard
Alpecin - Deceuninck
21 pt
3 Marc Soler Giménez
UAE Team Emirates
20 pt
4 Jimmy Janssens
Alpecin - Deceuninck
17 pt
5 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
12 pt
6 Rubén Fernández Andújar
Cofidis
11 pt
7 Louis Meintjes
Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux
10 pt
8 Jesús Herrada López
Cofidis
10 pt
9 Richard Carapaz Montenegro
INEOS Grenadiers
10 pt
10 Remco Evenepoel
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
9 pt
19 Fausto Masnada
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
5 pt
1 Remco Evenepoel
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
48:11:10
2 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
4:06
3 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
4:53
4 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
7:18
5 Thymen Arensman
Team DSM
9:19
6 Sergio Higuita García
BORA - hansgrohe
21:14
7 José Félix Parra Cuerda
Equipo Kern Pharma
32:11
8 Gino Mäder
Bahrain - Victorious
35:37
9 Edoardo Zambanini
Bahrain - Victorious
39:28
10 Clément Champoussin
AG2R Citroën Team
40:06
11 Ilan Van Wilder
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
52:43
1 UAE Team Emirates 143:46:02
2 INEOS Grenadiers 6:59
3 EF Education - EasyPost 22:33
4 BORA - hansgrohe 23:30
5 Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux 30:31
6 Astana Qazaqstan Team 30:33
7 Movistar Team 33:15
8 Bahrain - Victorious 36:56
9 Jumbo-Visma 52:31
10 Burgos - BH 1:17:30

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