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3rd Vuelta a Chihuahua Internacional - 2.2
Mexico, October 6-12, 2008
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Stage 6 - October 11: Cuauthemoc - Chihuahua, 127.4km
Mexican win in Chihuahua
By Monika Prell in Chihuahua
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Mexican Luis Macias gave his Team Tecos Trek a second stage win in the Vuelta a Chihuahua Internacional with the sixth stage – 126.3 kilometres from Cuauthémoc to Chihuahua. He won the sprint ahead of escape companions Italian Diego Nosotti of Team NGC Medical and Mexican Marcos Rios of Team Orven. Francisco Mancebo of Team Fercase maintained his race leadership day before the finish.
"Fifty-percent of the victory belongs to my teammate Bernardo Colex, who was with me in the breakaway group, and to the entire team," Luis Macias said. "We are strong – we already won two stages and Juan Pablo Magallanes is the leader of the combativity classification."
Mancebo leads the overall with 34 seconds on Gregorio Ladino of Team Tecos and 1:51 on Iker Camaño of Team Scott-American Beef.
"I haven't yet won the race," warned Mancebo. "We still have tomorrow's stage, and it will again be hard. Today's stage was okay, not like last year, when the wind built groups. Today, we had no wind, and the stage was fine for me and my team."
How it unfolded
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The race's remaining 104 riders enjoyed the trees' shade before the ten o'clock start in the centre of the Mennonite town of Cuauthémoc. 126.3 easy kilometres awaited the peloton, before reaching the starting point of the Vuelta, the capital Chihuahua.
Javier Benítez (Benfica), the winner of two stages, was certain that the stage would end in a mass sprint, but many of the other riders did not agree. Nine riders tried their luck four kilometres into the stage, but only four of them – NGC's Laurent Beuret, Garmin Chipotle's Christophe Laurent, Tecos Trek's Bernadro Colex and Orven's Cesar Vaquera – were able to stay in front.
After 20 kilometres, the group reached the intermediate sprint of Anahuac with a small – and closing – gap on the peloton. The next attack came from Beñat Intxausti (Scott-American Beef), Diego Nosotti (NGC Medical-OTC Industria Porte), Shinichi Fukushima (Meitan), Ryan Roth (Race Pro), Macias and the Team Orven riders, Marco Ríos and Oscar Barron. The seven riders joined the remaining duo of Colex and Laurent.
The group had an advance of one minute and five seconds to the peloton after eight kilometres. Mancebo's team was happy, as there was no direct danger for its leader.
Teams Fercase and Benfica set tempo and allowed the escapees up to two minutes and five seconds. From there, the difference decreased slowly. Colex, Intxausti and Laurent grabbed mountain points at kilometre 86.9, where gap was 2:01.
The gap was right at one minute with 10 kilometres left. The group shelled Barron in the finale. Nosotti made what seemed a winning attack, but Macias marked him to pass in the last metre.
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- The attacks began early in stage six
- Luis Macias (Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara) wins stage six in Chihuahua
- Christophe Laurent (Garmin Chipotle) leads the breakaway group that contested the finale
- A group of seven riders went clear and stayed away until the finish in Chihuahua
- Race leader Francisco Mancebo looks relaxed before the start
- Pat McCarty has been prominent in this year's Vuelta a Chihuahua
- The peloton waits for the start
- The riders depart Cuauthemoc for the 127.4km trip to Chihuahua
- Tom Peterson is another Garmin Chipotle rider who has made his mark on the race
- Spraying opponents with champagne is one way to try and psych them out!
Images by Monika Prell/Cyclingnews.com
- Xacobeo Galicia before start.
- Francesco Mancebo interviewed.
- Elk Haus souvenirs.
- Mikel Pradera (Benfica) at the doctor.
- Gregorio Ladino interviewed.
- Uriel Chavez and Irving Aguilar with their helper..
- Jessel Valenzuela's family support him every day.
- Luis Macias of Team Tecos.
- Jessel Valenzuela (Chihuahua-UACH) best Chihuahuense.
- Juan P. Magallanes (Tecos) combativity.
- Francisco Mancebo (Fercase) .
- Party on the podium.
- Macias and Magallanes celebrate.
Results
1 Luis Fernando Macias Hernandez (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 2.34.23 (49.513 km/h) 2 Diego Nosotti (Ita) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 3 Marco A. Rios (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 4 Ryan Roth (Can) Team R.A.C.E. Pro 5 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Meitan Hompo - GDR 6 Intxausti. Benat (Spa) Scott - American Beef 7 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 8 Bernardo Colex Tepoz (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 0.13 9 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 0.34 10 Derik Zampedri (Ita) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 11 Cesar Vaquera (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 12 Jose R. Aguirre (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 13 Uriel Rayo (Mex) Code Jalisco 14 Sergio Dominguez (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 15 Yasuharu Nakajima (Jpn) Meitan Hompo - GDR 16 Jose Carlos Valdez (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 17 Mark Walters (Can) Team R.A.C.E. Pro 18 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 19 Iker Camaño Ortuzar (Spa) Scott - American Beef 20 Thomas Peterson (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 21 Javier Chacon Quesada (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 22 Jason Donald (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 23 Gerardo Soto (Mex) Code Jalisco 24 Juan Francisco Mourón Doldán (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 25 Javier Etxarri Marin (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 26 Carlos Panadero Castano (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 27 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 28 Juan P. Magallanes (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 29 Caleb Fairley (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 30 Daniel Duarte (Mex) Chihuahua-UACH 31 Jessel Valenzuela (Mex) Chihuahua-UACH 32 David Abal Diego (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 33 Byron Guama (Ecu) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 34 Carlos Oyatzun (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 35 Andre Cardoso (Por) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 36 Ismael Ponce (Mex) Code Jalisco 37 Gilberto Gutierrez (Mex) Code Jalisco 38 José Mendes (Por) Benfica 39 Virgilio Dos Santos (Por) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 40 Francisco Matamoros (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 41 Angel Gomez M J. (Spa) Scott - American Beef 42 Gregorio Ladino (Col) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 43 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Meitan Hompo - GDR 44 Clemens Frankhauser (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 45 Joaquim Andrade (Por) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 46 David Vaz (Por) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 47 Rodolfo Fernandez (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 48 Edgar Pinto (Por) Benfica 49 Domingo Gonzalez (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 50 Jesus Zarate (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 51 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 52 Micael Isidoro (Por) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 53 Jonathan Patrick Mc Carty (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 54 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Benfica 55 Gorka Izaguirre (Spa) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 56 Gilberto Porras (Mex) Rica Burguer 57 Joel Dion Potras (Can) Team R.A.C.E. Pro 0.43 58 Edmundo Robledo (Mex) San Marcos 59 Edgar Mendez (Mex) Chihuahua-UACH 60 Eduardo Greciano (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 61 Alberto Fernandez (Spa) Scott - American Beef 62 Jaime Robles (Mex) Rica Burguer 63 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 64 Hernandez Manuel (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 65 Alberto Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 66 Uri Martins (Mex) San Marcos 67 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Scott - American Beef 68 Alberto Benitez Roman (Spa) Scott - American Beef 69 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 70 Alberto Fernandez (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 71 Uriel Chavez (Mex) San Marcos 72 David Salomon (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 73 Hugo Sancho (Por) Benfica 74 Raul Vazquez (Mex) Code Jalisco 75 Delio Fernández Cruz (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 76 Silvère Ackermann (Swi) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 77 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 78 Robert Lauscha (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 79 Juam M. Sansoval (Mex) Code Jalisco 80 Masaaki Kikuchi (Jpn) Meitan Hompo - GDR 81 Florencio Ramos (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 82 Samuel Espinoza (Mex) San Marcos 83 David Herrero Llorente (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 84 Antonio Velazquez (Mex) Rica Burguer 0.51 85 Francois Parisien (Can) Team R.A.C.E. Pro 86 Irving Aguilar (Mex) San Marcos 87 Laurent Beuret (Swi) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 0.54 88 Mario A. Armendariz (Mex) Rica Burguer 1.08 89 Abundio Guerrero (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 90 Uriel Clara (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 91 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 1.18 92 Oscar Barron (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 1.46 93 Daniel Petrov (Bul) Benfica 3.13 94 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Scott - American Beef 95 Mario Costa (Por) Benfica 96 Manuel Vazquez Hueso (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 3.24 97 Björn Thurau (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 4.12 98 Cesar Barragan (Mex) Rica Burguer 5.05 99 Edgar Barragan (Mex) Rica Burguer 100 Dustin Macburnies (Can) Team R.A.C.E. Pro 7.35 101 Jose A. Sanchez (Mex) Chihuahua-UACH 25.18 102 Bernardo Sanchez (Mex) San Marcos 32.47 103 Juan P. Villela (Mex) Rica Burguer General classification after stage 6 1 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 19.18.53 2 Gregorio Ladino (Col) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 0.34 3 Iker Camaño Ortuzar (Spa) Scott - American Beef 1.51 4 Thomas Peterson (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 2.02 5 Angel Gomez M J. (Spa) Scott - American Beef 2.08 6 Carlos Panadero Castano (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 2.19 7 Juan P. Magallanes (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 2.22 8 Jason Donald (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 2.40 9 Byron Guama (Ecu) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 2.41 10 José Mendes (Por) Benfica 2.45 11 Antonio Aldape (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 3.22 12 Joaquim Andrade (Por) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 3.54 13 Javier Etxarri Marin (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 3.56 14 Virgilio Dos Santos (Por) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 4.15 15 Francisco Matamoros (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 4.46 16 Sergio Dominguez (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 4.50 17 David Vaz (Por) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 5.09 18 Andre Cardoso (Por) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 5.26 19 Carlos Oyatzun (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 5.32 20 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica 5.54 21 Jesus Zarate (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 6.00 22 Eladio Jimenez (Spa) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 6.05 23 Jonathan Patrick Mc Carty (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 6.39 24 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Scott - American Beef 10.36 25 Bernardo Colex Tepoz (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 10.52 26 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 11.13 27 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 11.25 28 Edgar Pinto (Por) Benfica 11.30 29 Marco A. Rios (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 12.08 30 Micael Isidoro (Por) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 12.53 31 Gorka Izaguirre (Spa) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 12.58 32 Florencio Ramos (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 26.23 33 Domingo Gonzalez (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 27.04 34 Javier Chacon Quesada (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 27.11 35 Uri Martins (Mex) San Marcos 27.23 36 Gerardo Soto (Mex) Code Jalisco 27.35 37 Dustin Macburnies (Can) Team R.A.C.E. Pro 27.46 38 Daniel Petrov (Bul) Benfica 27.56 39 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Meitan Hompo - GDR 28.00 40 Rodolfo Fernandez (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 30.58 41 Alberto Fernandez (Spa) Scott - American Beef 32.15 42 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Meitan Hompo - GDR 32.56 43 Manuel Vazquez Hueso (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 38.36 44 Silvère Ackermann (Swi) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 38.47 45 Clemens Frankhauser (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 40.18 46 David Herrero Llorente (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 43.56 47 Diego Nosotti (Ita) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 44.18 48 David Salomon (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 45.14 49 Jessel Valenzuela (Mex) Chihuahua-UACH 46.06 50 Derik Zampedri (Ita) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 46.13 51 Laurent Beuret (Swi) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 46.22 52 Luis Fernando Macias Hernandez (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 46.57 53 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Scott - American Beef 46.59 54 Mikel Pradera (Spa) Benfica 47.12 55 Mark Walters (Can) Team R.A.C.E. Pro 56 Hugo Sancho (Por) Benfica 47.19 57 Mario A. Armendariz (Mex) Rica Burguer 47.23 58 Robert Lauscha (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 47.28 59 Alberto Fernandez (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 47.55 60 Cesar Vaquera (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 48.04 61 Edmundo Robledo (Mex) San Marcos 48.28 62 Yasuharu Nakajima (Jpn) Meitan Hompo - GDR 49.04 63 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus - Simplon 49.16 64 Ismael Ponce (Mex) Code Jalisco 49.45 65 Jaime Robles (Mex) Rica Burguer 49.58 66 Hernandez Manuel (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 50.16 67 Jose Carlos Valdez (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 50.33 68 Uriel Rayo (Mex) Code Jalisco 51.15 69 Jose R. Aguirre (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 54.17 70 Oscar Barron (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 57.25 71 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 58.18 72 Gilberto Porras (Mex) Rica Burguer 58.25 73 Francois Parisien (Can) Team R.A.C.E. Pro 59.02 74 Alberto Benitez Roman (Spa) Scott - American Beef 59.43 75 Irving Aguilar (Mex) San Marcos 1.00.48 76 Ryan Roth (Can) Team R.A.C.E. Pro 1.01.58 77 Intxausti. Benat (Spa) Scott - American Beef 1.02.50 78 Eduardo Greciano (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 1.04.21 79 Juan Francisco Mourón Doldán (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 1.04.33 80 Masaaki Kikuchi (Jpn) Meitan Hompo - GDR 1.04.37 81 Delio Fernández Cruz (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 1.05.01 82 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 1.05.03 83 Juam M. Sansoval (Mex) Code Jalisco 1.05.11 84 Caleb Fairley (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 1.05.27 85 Björn Thurau (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 1.08.32 86 Mario Costa (Por) Benfica 1.13.10 87 David Abal Diego (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 1.13.29 88 Uriel Clara (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 1.13.53 89 Alberto Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 1.14.17 90 Abundio Guerrero (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 1.14.22 91 Raul Vazquez (Mex) Code Jalisco 1.15.13 92 Gilberto Gutierrez (Mex) Code Jalisco 1.15.33 93 Uriel Chavez (Mex) San Marcos 1.16.05 94 Samuel Espinoza (Mex) San Marcos 1.18.36 95 Joel Dion Potras (Can) Team R.A.C.E. Pro 1.20.21 96 Antonio Velazquez (Mex) Rica Burguer 1.24.48 97 Cesar Barragan (Mex) Rica Burguer 1.24.57 98 Edgar Mendez (Mex) Chihuahua-UACH 1.31.56 99 Daniel Duarte (Mex) Chihuahua-UACH 1.46.26 100 Edgar Barragan (Mex) Rica Burguer 1.50.11 101 Jose A. Sanchez (Mex) Chihuahua-UACH 1.54.19 Points classification 1 Francois Parisien (Can) Team R.A.C.E. Pro 18 pts 2 Oscar Barron (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 18 3 Diego Nosotti (Ita) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 13 4 Björn Thurau (Ger) Elk Haus - Simplon 11 5 Juan P. Magallanes (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 10 6 Jose R. Aguirre (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 6 7 Francisco Matamoros (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 5 8 Bernardo Colex Tepoz (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 5 9 Gorka Izaguirre (Spa) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 5 10 Luis Fernando Macias Hernandez (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 5 11 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 5 Mountains classification 1 Jonathan Patrick McCarty (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 47 pts 2 Byron Guama (Ecu) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 33 3 David Vaz (Por) Fercase - Rota dos Móveis 30 4 Francisco Matamoros (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 29 5 José Mendes (Por) Benfica 26 6 Bernardo Colex Tepoz (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 24 7 Francois Parisien (Can) Team R.A.C.E. Pro 19 8 David Salomon (Mex) Canel's Turbo Mayordomo 18 9 Juam M. Sansoval (Mex) Code Jalisco 18 10 Oscar Barron (Mex) Orven Nuevio Leon 12 11 Juan P. Magallanes (Mex) Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 12 Best U23 rider classification 1 Thomas Peterson (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 2 Javier Etxarri Marin (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 3 Sergio Dominguez (Spa) Contentpolis - Murcia 4 Gorka Izaguirre (Spa) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 5 Uri Martins (Mex) San Marcos
