The Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah is about to shift the general classification battle into high gear as the race heads back into the mountains for the final two days of racing.
Lachlan Morton (Jelly Belly-Maxxis) currently leads the overall standings by nine seconds over Andrew Talansky (Cannondale-Drapac) and 34 seconds over Adrien Costa (Axeon Hagens Berman), who dropped from second to third after losing 27 seconds Friday in Bountiful.
Three riders sit 1:32 off the leader, with BMC Racing’s Joey Rosskopf and Darwin Atapuma tied on time with Rally Cycling’s Rob Britton. BMC stagiaire TJ Eisnehart is two seconds further adrift at 1:34.
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Robin Carpenter, in eighth place, is 2:11 down, followed by Kiel Riejnen (Trek-Segafredo) at 3:51 and Tao Geogheagn Hart (Axeon Hagens Berman) at 4:11. A group of six riders – including Holowesko’s Rob Squire, UnitedHealthcare’s Janez Brajkovic and Jonny Clarke, Trek’s Peter Stetina and Laurent Didier, and Cannondal’s Joe Dombrowski – are 4:07 down.
These gaps should grow and the names will likely change over the next two days, as riders face the Queen stage in Saturday and the final stage on Sunday. Saturday’s stage throws more than 3,000 metres of climbing at the peloton, including the climbs over Guardsman Pass and up Little Cottonwood Canyon to the finish at Snowbird. This stage has been the launching pad for multiple overall winners, including Dombrowski's solo win here last year.
While not having the volume of climbing as the previous day, stage 7 ends with the climb up Empire Pass, which some consider to be the toughest climb in US Racing. After summiting Empire Pass, a screaming, twisting descent into Park City leads to a new finish on Upper Main Street and the crowning of the 2016 champion.
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