Preview GP Miguel Indurain 2025 | Thibau Nys starts road competition in Spanish one-day race!
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For people who have been pacing around the house since Thursday, counting down the minutes until the Tour of Flanders on Sunday: Good news! On Saturday, we will be racing with, in addition to the Volta NXT Classic, there will also be action in Spain. The GP Miguel Indurain serves as a warm-up for the Tour of the Basque Country, and IDLProCycling.com gives you a detailed preview.
Practical information GP Miguel Indurain 2025
- Saturday, April 5, 2025
- Participants
- Classification: 1.Pro
In this article:
- Latest winners
- Course, weather and times
- Favorites
- TV information
Latest winners GP Miguel Indurain
2024 Brandon McNulty
2023 Ion Izagirre
2022 Warren Barguil
Course, weather and times GP Miguel Indurain 2025
The GP Miguel Indurain is a tribute to the Spanish cycling legend, and of course, the course also meets his requirements. Indurain was the best climber, so a climbing course is also part of the program for the 34th edition. A total of 3,351 meters of altitude will be climbed over 203.9 kilometers, with the start and finish in Estella-Lizarra. However, the race will crisscross the region, with various loops and a real final circuit.
The first loop (or a return trip to Muruzabal) is 57 kilometers long and does not include categorized climbs. Nevertheless, it constantly goes up and down, and after we pass the finish line for the first time, we turn left towards Legaria. In that larger loop, the ascent of the Eraul is hidden for the first time: 3.9 kilometers at an average of 5.3 percent. It is the first encounter with the finale, which leads over the same roads to the finish over a two-stage, rocket-like climb-descent.
Before returning to the Eraul, we make a third, large loop in a northeasterly direction. Here, the riders tackle the Alto Guirguillano and Alto de Lezaun. Both climbs do not have a high average gradient, but they have incredibly steep sections and are irregular. After Lezaun, we descend to the third finish line before we make one more small loop over the Alto de Eraul and thus that difficult final.
Weather:
Although it will rain and there will be thunderstorms in the region in the days and nights before the race, the weather on Saturday will be nice. The riders will have to watch for wet roads, but the sun will shine during the day, and temperatures will reach 18 degrees. The west-northwest wind will hardly play a role.
Times:
Start: 06:10 AM EDT
Finish: around 11:30 AM EDT
Favorites GP Miguel Indurain 2025
The GP Miguel Indurain has never had the best line-up of the year, but some interesting names do turn up every year. 2025 will be no different. UAE Team Emirates-XRG will be competing with defending champion Brandon McNulty and will hope that Isaac Del Toro will once again have excellent legs. The young Spaniard Pablo Torres will also be competing.
The challengers for UAE are primarily in the Lidl-Trek race. We always mention Bauke Mollema for Spanish one-day races, but we are especially curious about Thibau Nys's season debut. After the cyclo-cross winter, the Belgian has prepared extensively for the road season and seems ready. Andrea Bagioli is also an interesting card for Lidl-Trek.
Continuing down the list, we come across Ben Healy at EF Education-EasyPost. The Irishman has already shown his strength this year, but a victory is still lacking. Can he strike on terrain that is perfect for him? At Cofidis, we wonder the same thing with home riders Jesús Herrada and Ion Izagirre, and what about the fast Alex Aranburu...
And that's not all, because Tudor is counting on Marc Hirschi, and Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe is counting on Finn Fisher-Black and Daniel Felipe Martínez. Martínez, as for Nys, it will be his debut this year. Are there others? At Jayco-AlUla, we mention Mauro Schmid, and at Picnic-PostNL, we are curious about Oscar Onley!
Who are the favorites for GP Miguel Indurain 2025, according to IDLProCycling.com?
Top favorites: Isaac Del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Thibau Nys (Lidl-Trek)
Outsiders: Marc Hirschi (Tudor), Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL), Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) and Finn Fisher-Black (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)
Long shots: Daniel Felipe Martínez (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), Jesús Herrada and Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Mauro Schmid (Jayco-AlUla), Andrea Bagioli (Lidl-Trek) and Brandon McNulty (UAE)
TV broadcast GP Miguel Indurain 2025
The race will be broadcast live on Saturday from 09:00 AM EDT on Eurosport and online via HBO Max.
Bram van der Ploeg (Twitter: @BvdPloegg | email: [email protected])
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Latest Comments
- Such negative comments that are truly inappropriate and actually ridiculous. He sounds like an old man, bitter that he can't race anymore. Why can't he just be gracious? Or just shut up. Instead of howling for attention, in such a rude manner. Must be Dementia creeping in. We are all living in the Now. Records are there, and some are being broken, some are unapproachable. If he doesn't like it, and it makes him sick, maybe he ought start watching some other sport. Don't want the old mans health to be upset.
reemmo031-03-2025 - Roger De Vlaeminck inspires me to create a new beer: "Bitter Old Twat Belgian".JackInhof31-03-2025
- Shoot, I'll ride it for 1/10 of what his pay for that day is😅Veganpotter30-03-2025
- What is this? The Lance Armstrong daily cheaters channel? I could care less about Johan and Lance the seven times cheater. Greg Lemond was right all along, Why don't you write about that instead of these two knuckleheads.velodrone28-03-2025
- Are we all doomed to hear from Lance Armstrong and Johan bruneel until the end of time? It's not enough the stain they left on cycling? Do we have to see that shadow forever?bigyakman26-03-2025
- I am not sure if it is the hardest to win. In Flanders and Roubaix well before the finish the Peleton will be decimated and the race will normally be won by the best rider of the day or maybe 2nd or 3rd in case of a mechanical or unlucky break especially in case of Roubaix. In San Remo just before the finish there will still be several riders in contention and they are hard to ditch. For the best riders it is a race hard to win since it is not so selective. But if you are not a top 5 rider but still a top 10 rider this race is your best change to win. You will see more Milan San remo Winners with only 1 monument win than any other monumentsJoostmehrtens19-03-2025
- "fap fap fap oh Lance oh oh OHHHHHHH" again. Does he pay you to dredge up people with nice things to say about him? He was an giant a$$hole to people. It is a fact. Whatever his contrition about the doping, he is unapologetic about being a giant a$$hole to people. (Why yes, I do only login to complain. *I* am however only a giant a$$hole to people who laud giant a$$holes.)ericjensenridesbikes25-02-2025
- Remco is still very young. And injuries can absolutely keep you from overdoing it and getting worse. The recent Remco accident didn't keep him from being able to ride a recumbent inside. Wout's knee is a different story thoughVeganpotter23-01-2025
- Van der Poel style is winning by a half a lap and leading the race from the end of the second lap.
Barnes127420-01-2025 - If she thinks talent alone will put her there she will not see many podium finishes much less a GC finish.....work as a team utilizing tactics to consistently be at the top.Germanrazor10-01-2025