It was a tough Vuelta a España stage 11 with a hard parcours in the Basque Country and some famous Rampas climbs. The stage was neutralised at 3 km before the finish due to Pro-Palestinian protests threatening the safety of the riders.
Vuelta a España stage 11 2025 profile
Cote de Pike was used in the 2023 Tour de France Grand Depart on stage 1 with Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard and Victor Lafay crossing the top together, climbing the steep section (1.5 km at 11.27%) in 4:24 min with 7.98 ᵉW/Kg. Today Jan Hirt before Cote de Pike spent 3208 kilojoules over 3:31h at a rate of 15.05 kj/kg/h, with attacks already coming from Joao Almeida while everyone stayed together.
Due to safety concerns the riders climbed Cote de Pike, but the GC time was taken 3 km before the finish without a stage winner or official results. Despite this there was still action on the climb, with Tom Pidcock launching a big attack and dropping everyone, including Jonas Vingegaard. Pidcock was the fastest on Cote de Pike with 8.16 ᵉW/Kg for 4:20 min, four seconds faster than Pogačar, Vingegaard and Lafay in the 2023 Tour. Vingegaard lost five seconds to Pidcock with 7.97 ᵉW/Kg, but caught the Tour of Norway stage winner later.
Vingegaard and Pidcock gained 10 seconds on the second GC group with Almeida, Jorgenson, Gall and Hindley. With Pidcock having a stronger sprint and Vingegaard as the GC leader potentially needing to do more work to extend the gap, Pidcock would have had a good chance to take his first La Vuelta stage victory. Pidcock is third in the overall classification, but with long climbs and hard stages still to come it will be interesting to see if he can avoid cracking and losing time to secure his first top 10 in a Grand Tour.
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