Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe recovered from a nasty crash for their ‘engine room’ Matteo Sobrero to finish fourth in the stage 5 team time trial at the Vuelta a España, keeping Jai Hindley in the top 10 on GC.
Sobrero, Red Bull’s top TT rider present in Spain, came down heavily in second position mid-way through the team’s effort on the 24.1km course, which threatened to derail the strong time they were on course for.
“We wanted to win, and I don’t think we’re a million miles away, 12 seconds off. OK, down in fourth, but with Matteo and what he’s capable of – he’s our engine room and to put it simply, a bloody awesome team time trialler – to lose him at that point in the race obviously lost us performance.
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