The relatively uneventful and sunny stage 5 of the 2008 Volta a Valencia resulted in no significant changes to the overall results. Slipstream/Chipotle worked as a team to protect Trent Lowe’s position overall and succeeded. Timmy Duggan maintained his second place in the overall mountains classification.

Slipstream stage 5 results
1. Alessandro Petacchi 3:12:54 +

14. Julian Dean mt.
22. Chris Sutton mt.
29. Trent Lowe mt.
56. Lucas Euser mt.
63. J. Pat McCarty mt.
73. Ryder Hesjedal mt.
81. Timmy Duggan mt.
106. Dan Martin mt.

Slipstream GC after stage 5
1. Ruben Plaza 19.54:49 +

11. Trent Lowe :35
22. Ryder Hesjedal 1:01
40. Lucas Euser 7:14
43. J. Pat McCarty 11:46
55. Dan Martin 18:36
90. Timmy Duggan 33:44
102. Chris Sutton 40:20
107. Julian Dean 41:03