La Vuelta 2025 Stage 5 LIVE - David Gaudu and Jonas Vingegaard hoping their teams can deliver on TTT day as the Vuelta arrives in Spain

The good news is we've finally got ourselves a proper mountain stage. The bad news? We're heading for Andorra. I'll catch you bright and early.

1. Jonas Vingegaard 16'11'24"
2. Juan Ayuso +08"
3. Joao Almeida +08"
4. Marc Soler +08"
5. Giulio Ciccone +09"

Remarkable stuff from UAE to have three of the top five, and all of them level on the same time, even though we're still early in the race. Did someone say "power struggle"? 😈 (Yes, Matt Stephens just did.)

Gaudu is far from out of it in 6th place, 16 seconds down on Vingegaard.

Plus 24 seconds says the clock, which means he loses 16 seconds to Jonas Vingegaard. We'll wait to see where that puts him relative to the rest. That's either a very good recovery, or the timing was wrong.

Groupama FDJ are still several hundred metres from the finish. What will be the damage ultimately to David Gaudu's GC challenge?

And battled back in those final kilometres, crossing the line in 2nd place, seven seconds behind UAE Emirates. It looks as if Jonas Vingegaard is going back into red, even though he won't care all that much.

I can only conclude that the wind has picked up in that middle sector, because Gaudu's team has gone through in 15th place, having swung 20 seconds away from the race lead.

UAE EMIRATES GO QUICKEST

Marc Soler was wrestling his bike to stay in the wheels on the finishing straight, but what an excellent job that team has done. Nine seconds faster, we may be about to see a Spanish leader of the Vuelta.

Now 18 seconds behind Lidl-Trek at the second check, in 10th place. If they didn't have a camera on their bums, you'd think something had to have happened. Lidl-Trek are looking very happy in their Tissot chairs.

Remember, riders can drop off, but to continue the race, they need to complete the course, so that's good news.

Seven seconds down on Ineos' best time, more relevantly just four seconds slower than Visma. It's all about pacing now. It's still looking good for Giulio Ciccone's Lidl-Trek. Could the Italian be a surprise new red jersey?

Eleven seconds down at the second split, they pulled back eight of them by the line. Great ride, especially considering the incident.

But only by three seconds at check one. That tells us Groupama will need to be going very well to beat them.

Dead level with Ineos.

Whether or not he can hold on to rojo, and I think he's got a fighting chance, he has a terrible, terrible moustache.

I'm not sure what caused it but it looked like a heavy hit. Somehow he managed to avoid taking anyone with him, and the remaining riders are going very strong and done well to keep it together.

Though maybe subscribe ahead of tomorrow, rather than tuning in today.

Second place, six seconds down on Lidl-Trek, Egan Bernal will have no complaints, but it won't be the race lead for him. It was that final part of the course that it ran away from them.