Samu 12th in Québec

Samu took a good but sligthly disappointing 12th place in yesterday night's inaugural GP Québec. Euskaltel missed out on the break of the day, meaning they were left with the responsibility of towing them back in for the majority of the day. The team got some help from the likes of Sky and Caisse d'Epargne in their work, which helped, but still the likes of Javier Aramendía, Jorga Azanza, Miguel Mínguez and Gorka Izagirre spent an awful lot of time on the front of the peloton, setting the pace. It was solid, concerted team work, it's just a shame they didn't get their just reward at the end of the day. Rubén Pérez finished back in 85th, at 2:33, Alán Pérez and Jonathan Castroviejo were 91st and 92nd respectively, both at 3:40, while Azanza ended up in 99th place at 8:26. The remainder of the team were all DNFs.