Tour of Britain Stage 3 TTT

Tour of Britain Stage 3 TTT

INEOS produced an unstoppable ride to win the AJ Bell Tour of Britain’s Carmarthenshire team time trial stage on Tuesday, a result that moves Londoner Ethan Hayter into the race lead after three days. The British squad posted a time of 20’22” for the 18.2-kilometre course from Llandeilo to the National Botanic Garden of Wales, finishing 17.5 seconds faster than runners up Deceuninck – Quick-Step.

British UCI Continental team Ribble Weldtite first of the domestic teams, a minute nine off the winners time.

Hayter takes a six-second lead over team-mate Rohan Dennis with stage one winner Wout van Aert a further 10 seconds in arrears, while overnight leader Robin Carpenter (Rally Cycling) drops to 12th overall, now one minute six seconds down. “It’s amazing,” said Hayter after the stage. “I’ve ended up in a few leader’s jerseys in the last few races now and it makes the racing great. You know to win the team time-trial is a really nice way to do it.

“Rohan [Dennis] and Kwiato [Michal Kwiatkowski] were the most experienced, and obviously guys like Richie [Porte] have done time trials hundreds of times so they took us out and started us as we meant to go on. It was quite a tough start, then everyone just did short turns and did what they could to hold the speed. Then we hit the last climb pretty hard and held it to the finish.”

Behind INEOS Grenadiers and Deceuninck – Quick-Step were a further three UCI World Tour teams in Team Jumbo Visma, Israel Start-Up Nation, and Team DSM, plus Alpecin Fenix as the only other teams within a minute of the leaders. With Stage Three being a team time trial there was no change in the other classifications with Hayter also holding the Sportsbreaks.com Points jersey while Canyon dhb SunGod rider Jacob Scott holds both the ŠKODA King of the Mountains and Eisberg Sprints jerseys.

The race continues in Wales on Wednesday 8 September with Stage Four from Aberaeron on the Ceredigion coast to the Great Orme above Llandudno. The 210-kilometre (130.6-mile) stage ends with a spectacular ascent of the Great Orme’s Marine Drive toll road before tackling the 1.9km, 9.8% average climb that runs parallel to the famous tramway up to the finish.

The colourful Ribble Weldtite team set off for their team time trial

RESULT

1. INEOS GRENADIERS 20:22
Ethan Hayter, Rohan Dennis, Carlos Rodriguez, Richie Porte, Owain Doull, Michal Kwiatkowski

2. DECEUNINCK-QUICK STEP + 17
3. JUMBO-VISMA + 20
4. ISRAEL START-UP NATION + 43
5. TEAM DSM + 57
6. ALPECIN-FENIX + 57
7. MOVISTAR TEAM + 01:08
8. RIBBLE WELDTITE PRO CYCLING + 01:09
James Shaw, Daniel Bigham, Matthew Gibson, Gruff Lewis, Charles Page (+ 3:46), Simon Wilson (+ 4:22)

9. TRINITY RACING + 01:24
Thomas Gloag, Christopher Blevins, Ben Healy, Max Walker, Luke Lamperti (+ 01:55)

10. ARKÉA-SAMSIC + 01:28
Connor Swift, Maxime Bouet, Daniel McLay, Lukasz Owsian

11. RALLY CYCLING + 01:32
12. GREAT BRITAIN + 01:57
Rhys Britton, William Tidball, Ethan Vernon, Oliver Stockwell, Robert Donaldson, (+ 03:11), Max Rushby (+ 03:51)

13. CANYON DHB SUNGOD + 02:02
Rory Townsend, Matthew Bostock, Jacob Scott, Max Stedman, Thomas Mein (+ 02:14), Ryan Christensen (+ 03:54)

14. TEAM QHUBEKA NEXTHASH + 02:21
15. CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA + 02:25
16. SAINT PIRAN + 02:32
Steve Lampier, Oliver Maxwell, Tom Mazzone, Bradley Symonds, Leon Mazzone, Ross Holland (+ 04:59)

17. SWIFTCARBON PRO CYCLING + 02:38
Christopher Latham, Ross Lamb, Ollie Peckover, Alex Peters, Andy Turner (+ 03:38), William Bjergfelt (+ 03:42)

18. GLOBAL 6 CYCLING + 02:56

OVERALL
1 Ethan Hayter INEOS Grenadiers 09:40:21
2 Rohan Dennis INEOS Grenadiers @ 06
3 Wout Van Aert Jumbo-Visma @ 16
4 Julian Alaphilippe Deceuninck-Quick Step @ 23
5 Mikkel Honore Deceuninck-Quick Step @ 23
6 Pascal Eenkhoorn Jumbo-Visma @ 38
7 Michael Woods Israel Start-Up Nation @ 49
8 Daniel Martin Israel Start-Up Nation @ 49
9 Kristian Sbaragli Alpecin-Fenix @ 01:03
10 Xandro Meurisse Alpecin-Fenix @ 01:03
11 Mark Donovan Team DSM @ 01:03
12 Robin Carpenter Rally Cycling @ 01:06
13 Gonzalo Serrano Movistar Team @ 01:10
14 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team @ 01:14
15 James Shaw Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling @ 01:15
16 Nicolas Roche Team DSM @ 01:15
17 Carlos Rodriguez INEOS Grenadiers @ 01:20
18 Matthew Gibson Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling @ 01:27
19 Richie Porte INEOS Grenadiers @ 01:28
20 Connor Swift Arkéa-Samsic @ 01:34
21 Maxime Bouet Arkéa-Samsic @ 01:34
22 Silvan Dillier Alpecin-Fenix @ 01:41
23 Michal Kwiatkowski INEOS Grenadiers @ 01:42
24 Yves Lampaert Deceuninck-Quick Step @ 01:42
25 George Bennett Jumbo-Visma @ 01:48
26 Colin Joyce Rally Cycling @ 01:50
27 Gavin Mannion Rally Cycling @ 01:50
28 Owain Doull INEOS Grenadiers @ 01:54
29 Lukasz Owsian Arkéa-Samsic @ 01:57
30 Thomas Gloag Trinity Racing @ 01:59
31 Rory Townsend Canyon DHB Sungod @ 02:08
32 Mason Hollyman Israel Start-Up Nation @ 02:11
33 Max Kanter Team DSM @ 02:25
34 Giacomo Nizzolo Team Qhubeka NextHash @ 02:27
35 Simon Clarke Team Qhubeka NextHash @ 02:27
36 Marc Soler Movistar Team @ 02:37
37 Alex Peters SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling @ 02:40
38 Joel Nicolau Caja Rural-Seguros RGA @ 02:43
39 Nickolas Zukowsky Rally Cycling @ 02:52
40 Joey Rosskopf Rally Cycling @ 02:59
41 Max Walker Trinity Racing @ 03:10
42 Michal Paluta Global 6 Cycling @ 03:14
43 Christopher Blevins Trinity Racing @ 03:14
44 Robert Donaldson Great Britain @ 03:17
45 Ethan Vernon Great Britain @ 03:25
46 Max Stedman Canyon DHB Sungod @ 03:30
47 Mauro Schmid Team Qhubeka NextHash @ 03:49
48 Sergio Martin Caja Rural-Seguros RGA @ 03:53
49 Steve Lampier Saint Piran @ 04:00
50 Ryan Christensen Canyon DHB Sungod @ 04:1