Overview
- Paul Seixas attacked 26km from the finish on Tuesday’s mountainous stage to win by 1:25 over Mattias Skjelmose, with Primoz Roglic third.
- The French teenager now leads the general classification by 1:59 over Roglic, with Florian Lipowitz nine seconds further back in third.
- He seized the race lead on Monday by winning the 13.9km time trial in Bilbao in 17:09, finishing 23 seconds ahead of Kevin Vauquelin.
- Stage 2 opened with a seven-man break and included a crash for Vauquelin, who got back on his bike before the key San Miguel de Aralar climb.
- The six-day, 809km WorldTour race features steep Basque climbs and technical finishes, leaving more chances for climbers to try to trim Seixas’s gap.