Soudal Quick-Step animates Coppi e Bartali stage

Race report | Friday 28 March 2025 - 17:09

Our team continued to leave everything out there in their pursuit of a good result.

Pascal Eenkhoorn went on the attacks for the second day running, this time part of a more sizable breakaway, which fought hard to remain at the front as long as possible. When the peloton began chasing hard and eating into that margin, Mauri Vansevenant took off from the group and joined the leaders, and could rely on his Soudal Quick-Step teammate to take some incredibly long pulls that helped them increase their gap to one minute.

Before the penultimate climb, Mauri rode clear and remained alone up the road before being joined by two men, who bridged across having previously attacked from the bunch. The last ten kilometers of the stage held around Brisighella saw the trio hold a lead of 25 seconds, but an injection of pace behind spelled the end of their adventure just six kilometers from home.

Soudal Quick-Step continued to remain prominent and managed to put two riders in the top ten at the finish, where Ben Tulett (Visma-Lease a Bike) prevailed after a late attack: Viktor Soenens and Thomas Pesenti. The former, who has had an impressive season so far despite being in just his second U23 year, is also our best placed rider in the general classification, where only a handful of seconds stand between him and cracking the top ten ahead of the last stage.

 

Photo credit: ©Dario Belingheri / Getty Images

Race details

1 Ben Tulett
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
3:41:21
2 Igor Arrieta Lizarraga
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
0:06
3 Mark Donovan
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:07
4 Simone Velasco
XDS Astana Team
0:15
5 Emil Herzog
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe Rookies
0:15
6 Mattéo Vercher
Team TotalEnergies
0:15
7 Giovanni Carboni
Unibet Tietema Rockets
0:15
8 Alexey Lutsenko
Israel - Premier Tech
0:15
9 Viktor Soenens
Soudal Quick-Step
0:15
10 Thomas Pesenti
Soudal Quick-Step
0:15
37 Federico Savino
Soudal Quick-Step
2:41
38 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
2:41
99 Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step
13:12
125 Andrea Raccagni Noviero
Soudal Quick-Step
13:45
1 Ben Tulett
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
15:28:27
2 Mark Donovan
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:18
3 Igor Arrieta Lizarraga
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
0:23
4 Simone Velasco
XDS Astana Team
0:26
5 Davide De Pretto
Team Jayco AlUla
0:28
6 Alexey Lutsenko
Israel - Premier Tech
0:30
7 Alessandro Covi
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
0:30
8 Mattéo Vercher
Team TotalEnergies
0:35
9 Giovanni Carboni
Unibet Tietema Rockets
0:38
10 Emil Herzog
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe Rookies
0:42
13 Viktor Soenens
Soudal Quick-Step
0:53
19 Thomas Pesenti
Soudal Quick-Step
6:46
21 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
9:06
81 Andrea Raccagni Noviero
Soudal Quick-Step
29:55
89 Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step
32:59
92 Federico Savino
Soudal Quick-Step
34:57
1 Ben Tulett
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
16 pt
2 Magnus Sheffield
INEOS Grenadiers
12 pt
3 Simone Velasco
XDS Astana Team
11 pt
4 Jay Vine
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
10 pt
5 Paul Double
Team Jayco AlUla
10 pt
6 Caleb Ewan
INEOS Grenadiers
10 pt
7 Igor Arrieta Lizarraga
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
8 pt
8 Jarno Widar
Lotto Development Team
8 pt
9 Mark Donovan
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
6 pt
10 Davide De Pretto
Team Jayco AlUla
6 pt
20 Andrea Raccagni Noviero
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
1 Marc Cabedo Hernandez
JCL Team UKYO
26 pt
2 Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step
21 pt
3 Magnus Sheffield
INEOS Grenadiers
16 pt
4 Paul Double
Team Jayco AlUla
15 pt
5 Jay Vine
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
13 pt
6 Marcel Camprubí Pijuan
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
10 pt
7 Mathieu Burgaudeau
Team TotalEnergies
9 pt
8 Walter Calzoni
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
8 pt
9 Ben Tulett
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
8 pt
10 Adrien Maire
Unibet Tietema Rockets
5 pt
12 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
5 pt
22 Thomas Pesenti
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
1 Igor Arrieta Lizarraga
UAE Team Emirates - XRG
15:28:50
2 Davide De Pretto
Team Jayco AlUla
0:05
3 Emil Herzog
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe Rookies
0:19
4 Alessandro Pinarello
VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè
0:22
5 Magnus Sheffield
INEOS Grenadiers
0:24
6 Viktor Soenens
Soudal Quick-Step
0:30
7 Florian Samuel Kajamini
XDS Astana Team
4:01
8 Jarno Widar
Lotto Development Team
9:43
9 Cesare Chesini
MBH Bank Ballan CSB
10:33
10 Luke Tuckwell
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe Rookies
11:30
30 Andrea Raccagni Noviero
Soudal Quick-Step
29:32
39 Federico Savino
Soudal Quick-Step
34:34
1 UAE Team Emirates - XRG 46:26:32
2 XDS Astana Team 4:51
3 Soudal Quick-Step 9:29
4 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe Rookies 12:40
5 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 16:11
6 Team TotalEnergies 18:05
7 Unibet Tietema Rockets 23:26
8 VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè 27:03
9 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 27:11
10 INEOS Grenadiers 27:35

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