Last Thursday at the summit finish of La Manzaneda when Kern Pharma's Pablo Castrillo managed to fend off the WorldTour teams to solo to Spain's first victory of the 2024 Vuelta a España, the 23-year-old Grand Tour debutant's ability to tear up the script and see off the giants of the sport could hardly fail to impress.
But - as it turned out - the increasingly rare magic of one of the lower budget teams defeating the top WorldTour squads in a Grand Tour didn't end at Manzaneda for Castrillo and Kern Pharma.
