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Luca Mozzato received stage 2 of the Tour du Limousin-Périgord in a busy dash in Trélissac and scored the primary skilled victory with Arkéa-Samsic.
Lewis Askey (Groupama-FDJ) pushed throughout the road in second, forward of Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën Crew), carrying the KOM jersey. Cosnefroy and Askey bumped within the last right-hand nook, with the Frenchman complaining with a raised arm for the disruption in his momentum that left him in third place.
Race chief Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) completed safely within the entrance group to retain the yellow jersey, now 19 seconds over Cosnefroy and 26 seconds over Michael Storer (Groupama-FDJ) in third.
A breakaway managed the stage for 150km, however the remaining trio from a five-rider lead group withered away simply 4.5km from the end to arrange the bunch dash.
Wednesday’s flat run from Excideuil to Trélissac included 4 intermediate sprints and a trio of small third-category climbs the place organisers supplied KOM factors. The space between the 2 cities is barely 30km, however the route looped by way of the slender nation roads of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine area for 185.6km.
After 30km of racing, the composition of the breakaway was set with Johan Jacobs (Movistar Crew), Vinzent Dorn (Bike Assist), Andrea Pietrobon (Eolo-Kometa Biking Crew) and the Van Rysel-Roubaix Lille Métropole pair Tom Mainguenaud and Kenny Molly. One other 10km on, they handed over the primary KOM, with a 4:10 benefit over the peloton.
After the second KOM, the quintet grew its result in 5:25, and with slightly below 100km to race, a couple of groups started to take an curiosity, Intermarché-Circus-Wanty, Arkéa-Samsic Groupama-FDJ starting so as to add a better tempo on the entrance of the peloton.
Throughout the lumpy, circuitous route the 5 labored collectively nicely till Dorn accelerated with 30km to go and sprinted to say the Corrèze trophy dash in Cornille. Pietrobon was then dropped from the entrance group and rejoined the peloton with 25km to go. Race chief Grégoire remained protected by Groupama-FDJ, using on the entrance of the peloton and bringing the margin right down to 1:55.
On the clockwise loop throughout the ultimate 2.4km climb at Côte de Sarliac, the 4 leaders noticed their margin dissolve to beneath 40 seconds, Intermarché-Circus-Wanty driving the peloton.
With 13km of flat terrain remaining till the ultimate uphill kick in Trélissac, Mainguenaud fell away from the leaders. Eight kilometres later, the peloton had the remaining trio of their sights and made the catch with slightly below 4.5km to go.
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