Breaks from the breakpublished at 15:34 British Summer Time 13 May 2018
Two Bahrain-Merida men in that break, Manuele Boaro and Giovanni Visconti, going for the old one-two attack - Boaro hunting down Masnada, 12.2km to go.
Summary
Britain's Simon Yates wins stage nine
Thrilling summit finish
GB's Chris Froome loses more time
Pesco Sannita - Gran Sasso d'Italia, 225km
Last day before rest day
Breaks from the breakpublished at 15:34 British Summer Time 13 May 2018
Big show from Michelton-Scottpublished at 15:27 British Summer Time 13 May 2018
Roman Kreuziger ajnd Mikel Nieve to the front of the peloton, Jack Haig working his way up to join them, Simon Yates the guard's van on that particular train. The gap to the denuded six-man break down to 2 mins 46, Fausto Masnada of Androni having a pop now.
Sky down to two men with Froomepublished at 15:21 British Summer Time 13 May 2018
Just Vasil Kiryienka and David De la Cruz ahead of the five-time grand tour champion, and 22km still to come - it's going to get spicy out there, Yates well protected by Michelton-Scott, reigning champ Tom Dumoulin nicely placed too.
Domestiques droppingpublished at 15:17 British Summer Time 13 May 2018
The fierce pace set by Astana for Miguel Angel Lopez is hurting what the locals refer to as gregarios - the peloton spitting spent riders out of the back like stalks from a threshing machine.
Break at 3' 23"published at 15:12 British Summer Time 13 May 2018
25km to go, and the break is splintering - big pressure coming from behind, but Hugh Carthy still in the remaining front six...
All about the final 4kmpublished at 15:10 British Summer Time 13 May 2018
It's a steady climb until then, albeit we end above 2,100m, but it's only the last three miles that kick up hard, and in that thin air that we could see big action among the big boys chasing the GC.
The battle for the maglia rosapublished at 15:02 British Summer Time 13 May 2018
General classification
1 Simon Yates (GB/Mitchelton-Scott) 31hrs 43mins 12secs
2 Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Team Sunweb) +16secs
3 Esteban Chaves (Col/Mitchelton-Scott) +26secs
4 Thibaut Pinot (Fra/Groupama-FDJ) +41secs
5 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita/Bahrain-Merida) +43secs
6 Rohan Dennis (Aus/BMC Racing) +53secs
7 Pello Bilbao (Spa/Astana Pro Team) +01min 03secs
8 Richard Carapaz (Ecu/Movistar) +01min 06secs
9 Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +01min 10secs
10 George Bennett (NZ/LottoNL-Jumbo) +01min 11secs
Il Pirata sails againpublished at 15:02 British Summer Time 13 May 2018
The last man to win on Gran Sasso d'Italia was local hero/tortured soul/infamous doper Marco Pantani, who soloed to victory in his trademark bandanna back in 1999. Still hugely popular in Italy despite what we now know about his EPO and cocaine use. Pick the moral and ethical bones out of that.
Astana pushing the pelotonpublished at 14:59 British Summer Time 13 May 2018
Team Sky there with them. Michelton-Scott keeping race leader Adam Yates out of trouble too.
Route profilepublished at 14:56 British Summer Time 13 May 2018
Image source, Giro d'ItaliaBreak away!published at 14:55 British Summer Time 13 May 2018
12 men four and a half minutes up the road - including Tim Wellens and Britain's Hugh Carthy. And now the climbing begins...
British rider Simon Yates retains the pink jersey in the general classificationpublished at 11:43 British Summer Time 13 May 2018
Image source, EPA