Alessandro De Marchi claims solo win at Luintra after an impressive ride

BMC Racing's De Marchi soloed away from his breakaway companions to win the longest stage of this year's La Vuelta as Simon Yates retained the Red leaders jersey

De Marchi was part of a big 19-rider breakaway that only formed after over 100km racing that saw several attacks, all of them brough back my Mitchelson-Scott and Movistar.

In the eventual breakaway and was GC favorite Thibault Pinot who went in the virtual race lead as the breakway's gap went over 4 minutes.

With 25 kms to go EF-Drapac upped the pace in the peloton causing it to fracture.

In the breakaway BMC Racing's Alessandro De Marchi went on a long range solo attack with Jhonatan Restrepo (Katusha Alpecin) chasing him down at the top of the final big climb.

The Italian dropped Restrepo in the final kilometres in the pouring rain to win alone some 28 seconds ahead of Restrepo.

The remains of the break spread across two minutes and Pinot at 1m 50s, however the main favorites finished just 12 12 seconds behind Pinot after a late acceleration and so Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) kept the red leader's jersey, one second ahead of Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) and 14s ahead of Valverde's Teammate Nairo Quintana.

VIDEO: 2018 La Vuelta Stage 11 Highlights by GCN

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2018 La Vuelta Stage 11 Top 10

1 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) BMC Racing Team 4:52:38 
2 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:28 
3 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:59 
4 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:24 
5 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:01:45 
6 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:01:46 
7 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe   
8 Nicolas Roche (Irl) BMC Racing Team 0:01:48 
9 Sergio Henao (Col) Team Sky 0:01:50 
10 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ  

2018 La Vuelta GC after Stage 11 Top 10

1 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 45:57:40 
2 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:01 
3 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:00:14 
4 Ion Izagirre (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:17 
5 Tony Gallopin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:24 
6 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe   
7 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 0:00:27 
8 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:00:32 
9 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:00:43 
10 George Bennett (NZl) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:00:47