Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing) needed just one stage to reclaim the Eneco Tour leader’s jersey he surrendered to Peter Sagan (Tinkoff), riding the wave of BMC’s team time trial win on Friday back to the top of the general classification.
Dennis and BMC covered the 20.9km course in a time of 23:11, six seconds faster than runner-up Etixx-QuickStep and 34 seconds faster than Tinkoff, which finished eighth.
Dennis now leads teammate Taylor Phinney in the overall by six 16 seconds and Tony Martin (Etixx-QuickStep) by 24. Sagan is fourth, 27 seconds back. Dennis has two more teammates win the top 10, with Manuel Quinziato and Greg Van Avermaet in seventh and eighth, respectively, 29 and 33 seconds behind.
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"We finished with eight riders and we showed that there is a reason why we are the number one team in the world when it comes to the TTT," Dennis said.
"We weren't too stressed about performing. It was more about how much time we would take out of Sagan and Tinkoff," he said. "I am pretty satisfied with how we did. It wasn't perfect today. We still have some stuff to work on, and you never win easily, so everyone in the team suffered a bit, but we worked really well together."
By contrast, Tinkoff finished the stage with just four riders in contact, the team’s time taken on the fourth rider across the line. With two road stages remaining, Dennis has a comfortable-but-not-unassailable lead and three teammates close enough to provide multiple options for the team.
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