Originally Posted by
MinnMan
I only saw highlights, I admit, but I still don't quite get how Remco recovered from all that lost time and still finished 2nd. Sure, he's not happy with the result because he wanted rainbow, but what an amazing race it might have been if he hadn't lost all that time?
Teammates, team cars… drafted back into the main group.
Where he was able to then draft and recover a bit.
Made his way to the front, formed a trio… they rotated with Remco doing the bulk of the work… but they made no gains on what was a solo Pogi.
Remco attacked the trio, made a few seconds on Pogi, but then the gap widened and continued to widen.
Remco never matched Pogi’s pace. Pogs kept 1/4-1/2 k faster on each lap than Remco.
And after the initial dropping of the main climb - Pogi got the first gap but eased up with Del Toro.
I don’t think Remco had any chance, even without whatever problems he had.
Pogs won simply by attrition.