The French Champion CLM Elite 1 and his teammates pulverized the time and turned the ranking upside down; By taking more than a minute on the second team, the VC Villefranche, Mathias Ribeiro Da Cruz removes the red jersey of the shoulders of Gabriel Salon. Everything will be played on the heights of Creusot and Breuil.
Our analysis, rankings and our photo report.1’12 ” On the VC Villefranche in just 20 km, the VC Corbas struck hard, very strong. The specialists had predicted it, the bookmakers will not have made a fortune this Sunday morning, all know that Mathias Ribeiro Da Cruz is a formidable roller, his record speaks in his favor. Champion of France CLM in reigning, in elite 1, the highest category of amateurs, above, they are the pros. Moreover, even at this level, the Lyonnais was excellent since it is the 8th French of the discipline. Did you say favorite?
The Varennois route proposed a palette of difficulties which largely made it possible to widen the differences. A narrow and winding road to follow the Château de Brandon, a female-level climbing between Bouvier and Saint-Émiland, chicane with complicated recovery and Epiry descent where the best teams exceeded 90 km/h.
As expected, the VC Corbas has outlined the event, well led by its leader, the French champion CLM Mathias Ribeiro Da Cruz. A little more than 49 km/h on average (49.301), the Lyonnais put 1’12 ” on the team of the leader and the wearer of the polka dot (Gabriel Salon and Cyprien Maisson) of the VC Villefranche-Beaujolais, or 3 km/h more on average.
The Caladois, they, beat the jurassians of Dôle on the thread, for 2 tenths, a nothing. Note the very beautiful race of the Creusot Cyclisme which takes 7th place in 2’18 ” of the first and an average of almost 45km/h. Well done.
To general, everything is changed, you had to expect it. Mathias Ribeiro Da Cruz endorses the leading red jersey and can manage his advance which goes up to 1’04 ” on Gabriel Salon, yesterday’s winner. The French CLM champion will have to be wary anyway. Besides Gabriel Salon, the VC Villefranche is, at the start of this last step, more than well represented since three Caladois follow the leader, all around the minute.
The heights of the Creusot are also likely to create large deviations, the white paths too. It will be added that the fatigue of the weekend and the weather, more than humid, because stormy, will obviously decide the best. The winner will be the strongest, certainly.
Appointment around 5.30 p.m. Route de Couches, at Breuil.
Vincent BRUCCI
(Photos Manon Bollery
and Vincent Brucci)
CLM classification by teams
Individual CLM times
The general classification after the CLM
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