In a new feature, the Cyclingnews team pick their rider of the day from the Tour of California. Robin Carpenter (Holowesko-Citadel) is the eighth and final rider to be chosen.
Carpenter's day in the breakaway on the flat-but-windy course that started and finished in the state capitol of Sacramento earned the 23-year-old from Philadelphia the final Cyclingnews rider of the day honours.
Carpenter infiltrated a seven-rider group that got away early in the pancake-flat 138km stage that was buffeted throughout the day by winds that howled across the agricultural lands along the Sacramento River.
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The nervous peloton didn't give the leaders much leash during the stage, but Carpenter and his breakaway companions soldiered on, yo-yoing back and forth as the gap would go down and come up back down again.
The breakaway made it all the way onto the 3.5km finishing circuits with a 30-second gap, and Carpenter was one of the last riders caught, along with Krists Nielands (Axeon Hagens Berman), as they neared the final kilometre.
"Usually at these kind of races my M.O. is to get in a long break, and that's how I win stages, by sprinting from a smaller breakaway, and I really struggled to do that this week until today," he told Cyclingnews in the finishing straight of stag 8. "That's partly because I was trying to save a little bit for the time trial, because I knew I could do a good ride there. I was 13th. I wanted to be in the top 10, but I was happy doing that. And I guess I ended up 17th on GC, which is surprising for me, so I'm happy with it."
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