Paris-Nice *Spoilers*

[rich p]

Both Sky & Astana working hard on the front to shepherd their GC riders

and movistar

 

[rich p]

Anyone else have to think twice when Robbie Hatch mentions...
Tom á Veau Claire?

 

[thom]

Anyone else have to think twice when Robbie Hatch mentions...
Tom á Veau Claire?

I don't eat meat rich so I'm not biting

 

[thom]

Quemeneur certainly comes from the Voeckler school of facial expressions

 

[thom]

Degenkolb stomps to victory

Goss second ?!

 

[Crackle]

^ Yep.

Just managed to catch the end today.

 

[raindog]

Crikey, that was frantic stuff.
Completely soulless finish on a bloody great open motor circuit with no public though. Wonder whose bright idea that was?

 

[fimm]

I'm sure I've seen a clip of a race finish on a motor circuit before - it could have been Paris-Nice, but it could equally well have been some other race (though given that I was watching it, it must have been a fairly major race, if you see what I mean).

 

[rich p]

I'm sure I've seen a clip of a race finish on a motor circuit before - it could have been Paris-Nice, but it could equally well have been some other race (though given that I was watching it, it must have been a fairly major race, if you see what I mean).

Yep, may have been in the Tour in the last year or two.

 

[smutchin]

I don't remember a race track finish but I do recall there was a TdF stage a couple of years ago that had a short but steep climb up to a plateau where there was an airfield, with the finish on the runway.

Edit: found it - 2010, stage 12, Mende Airfield, won by Purito in a sprint against Contador. And the final climb is known as the Montée Laurent Jalabert since he won there in 1995.

 

[smutchin]

And a stage of the 1989 TdF finished on the Spa-Francorchamps circuit.

 

[thom]

I'm sure I've seen a clip of a race finish on a motor circuit before - it could have been Paris-Nice, but it could equally well have been some other race (though given that I was watching it, it must have been a fairly major race, if you see what I mean).

The 2012 Vuelta ?
Stage 7 finished at a motor race track in Alcaniz called Motoland Aragon

 

[rich p]

The 2012 Vuelta ?
Stage 7 finished at a motor race track in Alcaniz called Motoland Aragon

That's the one I was thinking about!

 

[montage]

Goss is back!!

 

[Monsieur Remings]

The 2012 Vuelta ?
Stage 7 finished at a motor race track in Alcaniz called Motoland Aragon

Yep, that's the only one I have in recent memory.