Jonas Vingegaard lost 22 seconds to Juan Ayuso in the opening time trial of Tirreno-Adriatico but the Tour de France winner and his Visma-Lease a Bike team always had a plan to attack on the key San Giacomo climb of stage 5 and executed it with precision on Friday.
The Dane took flight after some superb high speed chasing and tempo work from his teammates, surging away from Ayuso and the rest with 5.6km of the climb to go and still some 29.5km from the finish.
