{"id":1988582,"date":"2026-06-12T15:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1988582"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:04:54","slug":"dauphine-stage-6-red-bull-doubles-up-with-stage-and-gc-seixas-cant-gap-del-toro-in-mountain-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1988582","title":{"rendered":"Dauphin\u00e9 Stage 6: Red Bull Doubles Up with Stage and GC, Seixas Can’t Gap Del Toro in Mountain Final"},"content":{"rendered":"
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe won twice in a wild mountain stage in the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes on Friday.<\/p>\n
Maxim Van Gils won a sprint of three breakaway riders for his first win since a terrible injury, while his teammate Luke Tuckwell joined Isaac del Toro and Paul Seixas in the wunderkind party.<\/p>\n
Tuckwell finished third on Friday\u2019s 6th stage and moved to the top of GC of the race once called the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9. The 21-year-old Aussie animated the breakaway and pulled Van Gils, Tobias Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility), and Pablo Torres \u00a0(UAE Emirates-XRG) away from the move in the final 5km of the summit finish.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one of the most beautiful days in my career,\u201d stage-winner Van Gils said at the finish. \u201cI always stayed positive after the crash, to win in the Dauphin\u00e9, my girlfriend is from here, it\u2019s a region I really love.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful day for the team. Without a big GC leader \u2026 to take the yellow jersey is really big,\u201d Van Gils said.<\/p>\n
Seixas doesn\u2019t land GC strike<\/h2>\nSeixas couldn\u2019t drop Del Toro after the French favorite attacked on the final climb.<\/span> (Photo: Dario Belingheri\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Back in the peloton, Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM) pushed the accelerator at around 4km to go of the final climb to Crest-Voland but couldn\u2019t shake his GC rivals Del Toro (UAE Emirates-XRG) and Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike).<\/p>\n
Seixas and Del Toro crossed the line together, 3:15 back on Van Gils.<\/p>\n
Jorgenson finished 13 seconds further back after he was gapped in the final kilometers but chased hard to limit his losses.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was crazy from the start,\u201d Jorgenson said at the line. \u201cI watched the big group ride away at the start and thought it was going to be a hard day.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the start of the final climb, Decathlon went nuclear,\u201d Jorgenson continued. \u201cI held on as long as I could without totally blowing up, then I went my own pace.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Overnight race leader Alex Baudin (EF Education-EasyPost) crumbled out of the yellow jersey on Friday. He missed the early split that shaped the stage and was then gapped on the climb to the line.<\/p>\n
This was a wild day of racing that totally upended the battle for GC.<\/p>\n
Tuckwell leads the race for yellow by 1:12 over breakaway riders Bruno Armirail (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Guillaume Martin (Groupama-FDJ).<\/p>\n
Jorgenson heads up the pack of classification favorites at 2:34, with Seixas a further 30 seconds back.<\/p>\n
Two more huge stages in the Alps will test Tuckwell to the max.<\/p>\n
Seixas is swinging for the win as he works toward the Tour de France. The 19-year-old has to cut a 3-minute deficit to do it.<\/p>\n
Baudin and Decathlon drop the ball<\/h2>\nBaudin and Seixas missed out when the peloton split in two in the first hour of racing at the Dauphin\u00e9 \/ Auvergne-Rhones-Alpes. (Photo: Dario Belingheri\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The first installment of the Dauphin\u00e9\u2019s decisive triple-header through the Alps did not play per the script.<\/p>\n
A break of 60 riders \u2013 yes sixty \u2013 got away in a lightning fast first hour of racing and Decathlon CMA CGM and EF Education-EasyPost lost control.<\/p>\n
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The Decathlon team of overall favorite Seixas didn\u2019t get any riders into the break. Overnight race leader Baudin also missed a move that included a handful of GC threats. Tuckwell was a particular worry for Baudin after he started only 1:03 back.<\/p>\n
Decathlon and EF collaborated in the chase in the back-half of the stage, but it was too little too late.<\/p>\n
Van Gils, Tuckwell, and the attacking group hit the back-to-back climbs in the final 20km with almost 5 minutes of a gap, and the stage was set.<\/p>\n
Top Tour de France riders quit Dauphin\u00e9 tune-up<\/h2>\n
Several riders didn\u2019t start the stage Friday due to an illness sweeping the peloton.<\/p>\n
Two of the most notable non-starters were Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Michael Matthews (Jayco-AlUla).<\/p>\n
Van Aert is struggling with an elbow injury and faces questions ahead of the Tour de France. Matthews bailed out of his comeback race to focus on recovering for the Big Show next month.<\/p>\n
Josh Tarling (Netcompany Ineos) was another key name to leave the race. The big Welshman quit after he came down in a nasty crash. He\u2019s now racing to recover for the team time trial that opens Le Tour<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 stage 6 results<\/h2>\n\n
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2281244496-scaled-e1781277205998.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated June 12, 2026 09:56AM Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe won twice in a wild mountain stage in the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes on Friday. Maxim Van Gils won a sprint of three breakaway riders for his first win since a terrible injury, while his teammate Luke Tuckwell joined Isaac del Toro and Paul Seixas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-1988582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1988582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1988582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1988582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1988582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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