On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 04:20:19 +1000, Jeff Jones wrote:
high value Spanish teams place on team classification.

It is (or used to be) in the grand tours,

Right, that's what I meant.

'cos the team that wins gets an invite to next year's.

I think there's more to it than that; they place an intrinsic value on
team ranking that we (Dutch, Belgian, but more general probably:
non-Spanish...) just don't understand.