Race report: Hunter doubles – Vuelta a Murcia, stage 2
Team Garmin-Transitions’ Robbie Hunter successfully defended his race lead at the Vuelta a Murcia with another field sprint win. Our director sportif on the ground, Johnny Weltz, gives the summary:
At the start of the second stage — with the leader’s jersey on and a hard stage ahead — we decided to be part of the attacks instead of defend. Right from start attacks went with the first serious attack going after five kilometers. We had Peter Stetina in it. Another ten riders joined and Danny Pate was in there too, making 22 riders up the road in total.
They gained up to one-and-a-half minutes, then some teams with no representation started to work. It came to a long chase and finally came back together after 30 km. Then another group went and again we had Danny with Trent Lowe up there until Trent flatted out of the group. The group was going strong and it reduced down to a ten man group over the mountain, with Danny the best rider on GC.
Sky took charge and had a long day at the office doing the chasing. It all came back together over the mountain the final time. One rider got clear with 40 km to go but our guys took charge of keeping the whole thing under control and to set up the sprint finish for Robbie. He delivered a perfect sprint and not only won the stage but also defended the jersey and took the green jersey as well! Very strong teamwork today.
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