Vauquelin questions decision to wait for Onley in TTT
Kévin Vauquelin and Oscar Onley were left wondering what might have been on Tuesday after Onley dropped his chain inside the last 10 km of the stage 3 team time trial at the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The Netcompany-Ineos squad waited for Onley after the mishap, losing a few precious seconds, and they ultimately finished second on the day behind Matteo Jorgenson's Visma-Lease a Bike team.
After the stage, Vauquelin weighed in on the decision to wait for his teammate.
“If we wait for someone, whether they’re supposedly strong or not, we lose a huge amount of time. As some commentators have pointed out, we might have lost 15 or 20 seconds, because you lose an enormous amount of time going from 80 kilometers per hour down to 55 kilometers per hour and then back up to 80 kilometers per hour, it’s really enormous," he said on camera. "I think that wouldn’t have been my strategy. We’ll have a debrief with the team afterwards and see how things go."
