Robert Bush wins fifth stage and Francisco Mancebo extends his overall lead in 2011 Tour de Beauce
Chipotle Development team’s Robert Bush won the fifth stage of 2011 Tour de Beauce in Quebec City on Saturday, June 18. Mancebo maintained his overall leader’s yellow jersey.
Bush took a total of 2 hours, 56 minutes and 45 seconds to cover a distance of 125.1 kilometres. David Boily of Spidertech Powered by C10 was the runner-up with the same timing of Robert.
Bush said, "Once I did that I thought - if I keep feeling good toward the end then I am going for the win. It worked out. I knew it was the good breakaway, it was hard on the first few laps, but I knew I could win once I made it over the steep hill on the
last lap."
Bernard Sulzberger of Australia was in the third spot and Christian Meier of United Healthcare Pro Cycling finished fourth.
Glen Alan Chadwick of Pure black racing tried his best to catch the six cyclists, but he failed and grabbed the seventh spot with a difference of 4 seconds.
A group of three cyclists made their first breakaway including, Alex Howes (Chipotle Development), Francisco Mancebo Perez (Realcyclist.com Cycling) and Bernardo Colex Tepoz (Amore & Vita).
All the riders built a lead of few seconds over the peloton, but Alex was in good form so he took the first sprint. Although, in the final sprint Jacob attacked, but failed, Robert won the final sprint.
In the four laps of the stage 17 riders spilt in the field including Bruno Langlois, Johnnie Walker, Kin San Wu, James Williamson, Richard Handely, Arnaud Papillon and Robert Bush.
All of them gained a lead of four minutes over the peloton, while Realcyclists.com maintained his pace in the front of the field. In the final lap, the breakaway riders attacked and three riders Boily, Sulzberger and Walkers made their final move, but Bush
won the stage.
Boily said, "After the first KOM, PureBlack Racing was setting a really hard tempo then everyone slowed down a bit and a few guys went away, a bigger group formed and we were working very well. There were a lot of teams in the breakaway so everyone was cooperating."
Francisco Mancebo took the overall lead with a timing of 15 hours, 28 minutes and 55 seconds. Bernardo Colex was the runner-up with 25 seconds and Alex Howes finished third with a difference of 1 minute and 11 seconds behind the Spaniard.
The next stage will start in Saint Georges and all riders will cover a distance of 125 kilometres.
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