Tour of California, stage 2 summary

Stage 2 : May 17, Davis - Santa Rosa, 177.2 km

1 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Cervelo Test Team 4.38.48
2 Peter Sagan (Svk) Liquigas-Doimo
3 Lars Boom (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team
4 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Unitedhealthcare Presented by Maxxis
5 Andre Steensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank
6 Francois Parisien (Can) SpiderTech Powered by Planet Energy
7 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team Radioshack
8 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin-Transitions
9 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team HTC-Columbia
10 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team HTC-Columbia


Changes in stage 2 compared to stage 1 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+113 Thomas Rabou
+111 Karl Menzies
+105 Lars Boom
+86 Scott Zwizanski
+86 Brett Lancaster
+85 Jens Voigt
+84 Francois Parisien
+81 Steve Morabito
+81 Heinrich Haussler
+80 Jurgen Van De Walle

Biggest losers by position :
-86 Mark Cavendish
-86 Thomas Leezer
-82 Guillaume Boivin
-80 Robert Hunter
-79 Nikolas Maes
-78 Martin Gilbert
-77 Andreas Stauff
-74 Manuel Quinziato
-73 Mark Renshaw
-72 Alexander Kristoff
-72 Tejay Van Garderen

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Brett Lancaster
+0:06 Peter Sagan
+0:06 Karl Menzies
+0:04 Thomas Rabou
+0:04 Lars Boom

Biggest losers by time :
-17:58 Javier Megias Leal
-17:40 Sebastian Langeveld
-17:28 Oscar Pujol Munoz
-17:20 Aldo Ino Ilesic
-17:20 Andreas Stauff
-17:20 Andy Jacques-Maynes
-17:20 Bernhard Eisel
-17:20 Bruno Langlois
-17:20 Cody O'Reilly
-17:20 Daniel Holloway
-17:20 Elia Viviani

Favourites by position :
+85 Jens Voigt
+64 Lars Ytting Bak
+51 Lance Armstrong
+51 Andy Schleck
+31 Levi Leipheimer
+27 Fabian Cancellara
+27 David Zabriskie
+25 Ryder Hesjedal
+13 Stef Clement
+13 Michael Rogers
+11 Janez Brajkovic
+4 Stuart O'Grady
+4 Jakob Fuglsang
-2 Tony Martin
-10 Yaroslav Popovych

Favourites by time :
-1:17 Tony Martin
-1:17 Stef Clement
-2:47 Jakob Fuglsang
-9:58 Yaroslav Popovych
-15:02 Fabian Cancellara
-17:20 Stuart O'Grady

Top 3 and favourites standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Brett Lancaster 8:43:24 (was 87th at 0:10)
2 Peter Sagan 0:04 (was 16th at 0:10)
3 Karl Menzies 0:04 (was 114th at 0:10)
.....
8 Michael Rogers 0:10 (was 21st at 0:10)
9 Janez Brajkovic 0:10 (was 20th at 0:10)
10 Ryder Hesjedal 0:10 (was 35th at 0:10)
11 Levi Leipheimer 0:10 (was 42nd at 0:10)
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16 David Zabriskie 0:10 (was 43rd at 0:10)
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18 Lance Armstrong 0:10 (was 69th at 0:10)
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20 Lars Ytting Bak 0:10 (was 84th at 0:10)
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23 Andy Schleck 0:10 (was 74th at 0:10)
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26 Jens Voigt 0:10 (was 111st at 0:10)
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32 Tony Martin 1:27 (was 30th at 0:10)
33 Stef Clement 1:27 (was 46th at 0:10)
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47 Jakob Fuglsang 2:57 (was 51st at 0:10)
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58 Yaroslav Popovych 10:08 (was 48th at 0:10)
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83 Fabian Cancellara 15:12 (was 110th at 0:10)
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120 Stuart O'Grady 17:30 (was 124th at 0:10)

Retirements to date : Stage
Andrew Pinfold (Can) Unitedhealthcare Presented by Maxxis 2
Sean Mazich (USA) Jelly Belly Presented by Kenda 2
Total retirements : 2