Jonas Vingegaard solos to Victory atop the Col du Tourmalet in Jumbo-Visma 1-2-3

On a crazy day of climbing at the Vuelta a Espana, Jonas Vingegaard soloed to the stage 13 victory as Remco Evenepoel completely cracked leaving Jumbo-Visma in a position of complete and utter dominance

Stage 13 was a very difficult day in the mountains, the Vuelta a Espana reached the Pyrenees and with it plenty of climbing, including the Col du Tourmalet.

The drama began early on with both Joao Almeida and Remco Evenepoel among the riders dropped by the peloton on the first climb of the day with 90km left to race.

The most worrying part was that the pace being set wasn't even incredibly high with over 30 riders cresting the climb in the leaders group being paced by Jumbo-Visma.

Ahead of the peloton including race leader Sepp Kuss and the rest of the remaining GC riders were just four from the breakaway; Kenny Elissonde, Michael Storer, Andreas Kron and Cristian Rodriguez. With Jumbo-Visma keen to keep the likes of Almeida and Evenepoel distanced though, they didn't last long out front.

By the time the race reached the second climb of the day, another four riders had gone on the attack. Sepp Kuss, Jonas Vingegaard, Damiano Caruso and Mikel Landa.

UAE Team Emirates, working for Juan Ayuso and Mark Soler were not having that and set a brutal pace that disintegrated the peloton but did catch them.

Lenny Martinez became the next GC contender to drop away, his teammate Michael Storer took maximum points at the second climb of the day to move into the virtual lead of the King of the Mountains classification.

Reaching the infamous Col du Tourmalet, 22 riders were left in the Red Jersey group. That number soon began to dwindle though as they started climbing.

With 8km to go, Vingegaard went on the attack again and this time managed to get a gap as the chase behind stalled.

Enric Mas was leading the charge behind as Vingegaard built up a 40-second lead with 5km to go.

There was no catching the reigning Tour de France champion however and Jumbo-Visma were looking like having a one-two-three in the general classification.

With just over 1km to go, Kuss launched a massive attack from behind leaving the rest of the GC chasers in the dust.

Vingegaard took the stage win, Kuss came home second with Roglic completing the one-two-three.

VIDEO: 2023 La Vuelta Stage 13 Highlights

2023 La Vuelta Stage 13 Top 6

1  VINGEGAARD Jonas Jumbo-Visma 3:51:10
2  KUSS Sepp Jumbo-Visma 0:30
3  ROGLIC Primož Jumbo-Visma 0:33
4  AYUSO Juan UAE Team Emirates 0:38
5  UIJTDEBROEKS Cian BORA - hansgrohe 0:38
6  MAS Enric Movistar Team 0:40

2023 La Vuelta GC after stage 13

1  KUSS Sepp Jumbo-Visma 46:42:54
2  ROGLIC Primož Jumbo-Visma 1:37
3  VINGEGAARD Jonas Jumbo-Visma 1:44
4  AYUSO Juan UAE Team Emirates 2:37
5  MAS Enric Movistar Team 3:06
6  SOLER Marc UAE Team Emirates 3:10
7  LANDA Mikel Bahrain - Victorious 4:12
8  VLASOV Aleksandr BORA - hansgrohe 5:02
9  UIJTDEBROEKS Cian BORA - hansgrohe 5:30
10  ALMEIDA João UAE Team Emirates 8:39