Vuelta a España leader Nairo Quintana said he was untroubled by the presence of two of Chris Froome's teammates in the break of the day during stage 12, despite the potential threat to Movistar's control of the race.
Sky's David Lopez and Peter Kennaugh, the latter 15th overall and a former Vuelta leader, both made it into the five-man break which stayed away for 130 kilometres and was only caught after Astana had joined forces with Movistar to reel them in.
Lopez explained later on Spanish television that after Tinkoff had done the bulk of the leader's team work on stage 11 to Peña Cabarga, the idea of he and Kennaugh getting in the break "was to make Movistar work behind."
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"We thought that more riders would come across and that the break would stick, but in the end, there just weren't enough riders there for it to stay away."
The break was finally caught 18 kilometres from the line.
"We weren't worried at all," Quintana said later. "We'd had Imanol [Erviti] and Rory [Sutherland] keeping things under control on the flatter part and then other teams that were looking for the stage win began helping us, too. We handled it absolutely fine, without losing our nerve."
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