Vuelta a Burgos

Luke Lamperti, who is competing at the Vuelta a Burgos for the first time in almost two months, was the best placed Soudal Quick-Step rider at the end of Wednesday’s second stage, which concluded in Buniel, a small town that isn’t a regular on the course of the five-day event.

Just like on the opening stage, a breakaway animated things and built a three-minute margin over the peloton, where the sprinters’ teams joined hands in order to reduce this gap and bring back the four riders in the lead before the closing kilometers. It wasn’t a hard task for the bunch, who reeled them in ahead ten kilometers from the line. It all came down to a mass gallop won after a photo-finish by Matteo Moschetti (Q3.65), while Lamperti took seventh place – his fourth top ten of the season.

The general classification men enjoyed a quiet day, but things should be different on the third stage, when they will tackle the toughest climb of the race so far, Puerto de Orduña. The first-category ascent comes in the last 30 kilometers and the gaps between the favourites are expected to widen there.

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