Liberty Seguro's Michele Scarponi lost five minutes in today's stage, and any chance of contending for a good place in the general classification after a fall stopped both him and team-mate Daniel Navarro until the team car could reach them.
Descending the Guglionesi, with about 20km to go, Scarponi and Navarro both hit a pothole and damaged their rear wheels. The double mechanical prevented Navarro from simply giving Scarponi his wheel so they both had to wait. Also waiting, further down the road, were their team-mates Javier Abeja, Serguei Yakolev and Marcos Serrano, who had assumed Navarro was helping Scarponi.
