Vuelta Pais Vasco

182 stage points and i drop a place !!!! Cracking race.

Moved the big boys in early and it paid off.

To be honest I hadn't realised the final climb was so short so count myself a bit lucky with Landa, Contador, Pinot and Quintana all up there.

Also fantastic day for my purist team - second ever stage win!

This is becoming a recurring nightmare; me thinking i have a team that can't possibly fail, and ending up with a very mediocre team. I got 3, 5, 8 and 20 + Martin, Anton, Gallopin and Gerrans. Really impressed with Felline though...

Yeah, same for me, but with 8 as well and minus 4 transfers.

I went J-Rod too! But as i didnt want to make wholesale changes I only had 3,5,11! So not good at all

Way to go Landa! Great to see him back on form so soon.

I didn't do too badly today, but I completely forgot about Kelderman.  I nearly always pick him.  And I should have had Pinot over Rodriguez, maybe the latter is saving himself for Friday.

Landa and Kelderman have a gap... 

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15km to go. Denifl and Madrazo have 0:46 on the bunch. Madrazo will apparently wear the KOM jersey at tomorrow's start.

30km to go. Katusha leading the peloton. Meintjes and Paulinho have abandoned the race.

The  break started with 4 riders,Denifl (IAM), Meintjes (LAM), Petilli (LAM) and Madrazo (CJR), , but by 80km to go, only Denifl (IAM) and Madrazo managed to stay out front by themselves...

Race live feed notes Petilli (LAM) and Madrazo (CJR) were in the break yesterday, too. 

For those interested, here's how much the riders in the break are worth:

Stefan Denifl IAM Cycling 14.5

Louis Meintjes Lampre - Merida 9.3

Simone Petilli Lampre - Merida 7.0

Angel Madrazo Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 5.8

Hmmm... According to the race live feed, there'll be no Sprint Points awarded at  Amurrio because there's oil on the streets... 

Today should be a good stage! Ramps of 13.5% at the end! 50km to go and Denifl (IAM) and Madrazo are up front with a gap of 3:29

Top of FS after stage one! I'll take that.

Ten transfers is proving tricky to manage. Just made a few for todays summit finish, but the GC guys might wait until stage five until they make their move.  Planning to get the medium mountains guys back in for stages three and four, but then it's another summit and then a time trial.... Really fancy holding onto first place.

Whys does Nairo Quintana show 100 points and Joaquim Rodriguez show 171 points under 'This Tour' in the Current Rider Rankings? 

If riders are missing from the initial roster will they be added to the roster during the course of the race?

6 stages, 2 transfers per stage.

I'm trying to call the first stage.  Last year there were two less mountainous stages before all the summit finishes, it's a bit more complex this year.   Thinking guys like Bakelants and Felline for stage one then it's straight to a summit finish.

Can we have more transfers, please? ... Just to make the game more fun and be able to switch out more riders?..

oopsie.

wrong number of transfers too!