2023 Vuelta a España Stage 6 Results & Recap
Stage 6 of the 2023 Vuelta a España is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Kuss wins stage 6
Jumbo Visma's super domestique Sepp Kuss stormed to victory on the sixth stage of the Vuelta a Espana after attacking out of the large break of the day on the final climb to solo to the win ahead of 20-year-old Lenny Martinez (Groupama-FDJ) and Romain Bardet (Team dsm-firmenich) finished third.
"The whole day, I felt super super good," Kuss said after the stage. "I was only thinking about when to go, when to try and make a difference. The whole climb, I was just enjoying the environment that we have in the Vuelta. It was an incredibly hard stage. We wanted to try and go in the breakaway just to test Quick-Step. We knew it would be a hard day to control. That was the primary objective. We were in there with Dylan [van Baarle], Jan [Tratnik], Attila [Valter], and they rode super, I have to thank them a lot for the work they did. The whole day, I felt super, super good. I was only thinking about when to go, when to try and make the difference. The whole climb I was just enjoying the environment that we have in the Vuelta. It’s always a special race for me. No, no, I’m not here to win La Vuelta! For me, to win a stage is amazing. Durango is a town of mountain bike legends so I knew Lenny Martinez’s father. It’s very cool to be racing with his son, but it’s also a realization of how much older I am than this young guy!"
After being on the receiving end of attacks from Kuss's teammates Jonas Vingegaard and Primoz Roglic, Remco Evenepoel (SOQ) conceded the red jersey to Martinez and is now sitting in 9th place, 2:47 down on Martinez - who is the youngest-ever leader of the Vuelta.
“When the others went, I just went at my own pace and in the end, it was 30 seconds slower than the fastest guys,” Evenepoel told reporters after the race.“I didn’t feel like I was going really all out, it felt more like a controlled pace, but I just could not go over that limit. You just have some days like that, and today it was my turn to not have the best legs."
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