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Yep, I expect they'll announce the exact time penalties once they've been able to observe how much extra time (on average) it's taking riders to go via the suggested detour.
Jonas is about 8h behind Bjorn so the smaller time penalty should be less than that otherwise it's going to lose Bjorn a place through no fault of his own (the road wasn't banned when he used it).
Skinny took about 3.5h to go between Turda and Sebes (where he slept). Can't work it out simply for Bjorn as his overnight stop was part way through that stage (in Aiud).
Bjorn has lost about 25 minutes to Skinny on the Transfăgărășan climb so far, time gap is up to 3h40.
Geoffroy (93) looks like he's taking the E81.
Greenbank
I'm guessing the idea is the earlier time penalties will be set in a way that it just evens out the time advantage/disadvantage, then on the basis of fair warning the later penalties will be punitive.