After two great mountain stages with outstanding performances, Tour de France Stage 17 was a chance for climbers in the breakaway with Richard Carapaz out climbing Simon Yates and Enric Mas. Tadej Pogačar and Remco Evenepoel saw an opportunity to take time on Vingegaard and attacked in the last part of the stage.
With no climbs in the first 138 km of the race, the breakaway took almost the whole stage to fully form as many riders wanted to fight for victory. Grand Tour winners Richard Carapaz and Simon Yates were one of the stronger riders in the breakaway. On Col du Noyer (7.6 km, 7.9%), Yates attacked on the climb and overtook the first group with Benoot, Cort, Gregoire, Jungels, Madouas and Martin, who were in the lead for most of the stage. It seemed Yates would win, but Richard Carapaz also accelerated, caught and dropped him.
Carapaz did 6.56 ᵉW/Kg for 17:45 min and was 18 seconds faster than Yates, who averaged 6.45 ᵉW/Kg. Enric Mas was third fastest with 6.31 ᵉW/Kg for 18:17 min. Carapaz kept the lead and won his first Tour de France stage. Oscar Onley who also was in the breakaway and finished fifth had spent until the climb 3,548 kilojoules for 3:31h at 15.96 kj/kg/h.
Meanwhile, in the peloton, the pace was extremely slow with riders pushing 6.00 ᵉW/Kg for the first 16 minutes but in the last part of the climb, Tadej Pogačar attacked and gapped everyone with around 8.5 ᵉW/Kg for 2 minutes. For the whole climb, it was still only 6.27 ᵉW/Kg for 18:06 min. Evenepoel was slower by 7 seconds, while Vingegaard lost 12 seconds to Pogačar.
Thanks to Laporte and Van Aert, Vingegaard caught Evenepoel and Pogačar in the descent. Evenepoel attacked later on the final climb and gained 10 seconds on Pogačar and 12 seconds on Vingegaard, who was paced by Benoot.
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What does “All calculations use a standard weight of 60 kg” mean? Does that mean riders heavier than 60kg have higher w/kg numbers on the graph than they actually have?
No, it means that for riders heavier than 60kg the W/Kg calculation ratio is lower than written since they are literally pushing the given watts for a higher weight, equaling a lower ‘real’ W/Kg value.
Thanks for confirming what I wrote