Casar´s move bothered nobody

“Even if he had pulled on the maglia rosa he wouldn’t  have kept it for a long time,” said the Astana leader who dropped to sixth place overall as Casar and Roman´s friend Santaromita from BMC have moved ahead of him in the GC. “It wasn’t definitely an easy stage because we reached an average speed of 51km/h after the first hour of racing. We didn’t have anybody up front in the breakaway but it wasn’t our priority today. We tried to save as much energy as possible for the weekend´s stages. For this reason, we didn’t even chase the escapees. At first, Katusha did the pace-setting but then they dropped it. Liquigas did most of the work towards the end but I think it was just because they wanted to play it safe on the downhill,” Roman revealed.12th stage (Seravezza-Sestri Levante, 157 km): 1. Bak (Den) 3:58:55, 2. Casar (Fra), 3. Amador (Cost), 4. Bakelants (Bel), 5. Santaromita (Ita), 6. J. Rodríguez (Ven.) +11, … 24. Roman Kreuziger (Cze/Astana) +3:34. Overall standings: 1. Rodríguez (Spa) 51:19:08, 2. Hesjedal (Can) +17, 3. Casar (Fra) +26, 4. Tiralongo (Ita) +32, 5. Santaromita +49, 6. Roman Kreuziger +52.