As advertised, the stage 6 Folsom time trial at the Tour of California reshuffled the general classification heading into the final two days of racing, sorting out who could realistically contend for the final yellow jersey over the next two days of racing.
Stage winner Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing) climbed to second overall, while his teammate, Brent Bookwalter, moved from fourth to third. The BMC riders trail overall leader Julian Alaphilippe (Etixx-QuickStep) by 16 and 38 seconds, respectively, while stage runner up Andrew Talansky (Cannondale) made the biggest jump among the GC contenders, moving from 11th to fourth, just 47 seconds behind.
Dennis stormed over the course in 24:16.04, beating Talansky by 17 seconds and BMC's Taylor Phinney by 20, but Alaphilippe's eighth-place effort, just 45 seconds down on Dennis, saved his jersey. Dennis heaped praise on Alaphilippe for his Friday result.
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"He's not a pure time trialist, but today he really did ride well, and hats off to him," Dennis said in the post-race press conference, which Alaphilippe did not attend. "We underestimated him a little bit when it came to the time trial. I thought I could take a minute out – on a really good day a minute and a half.
"It was 43 seconds or so in the end," Dennis said. "He rode really well, but it's not over yet. There are still two stages to go, but 16 seconds isn't easy to bring back when he's put the time in over Brent and myself, or everyone really. It's all about trying to see the best way to make him crack, and hopefully we can do it. If not, then I guess we have to battle it out for second."
Among the other riders who started the day in the top 10, Trek-Segafredo's Peter Stetina fell the furthest out of contention. Stetina started the day second overall, just 22 seconds behind Alaphilippe, but he finished 2:25 down on the stage and dropped to 13th, now 2:02 down on Alaphilippe in the general classification.
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