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mcflute-
Yes (well nearly, made an error trying to do the sums on my phone):
Jonas Vingegaard: 32 mins 36 secs = 1,956 secs
Tadej Pogacar: + 1 min 36 secs = + 96 secs = 2,052 secs
2052/1956 = 1.049 = 104.9%
So Pogacar’s time in second place was 104.9% of Vingegaard’s.
Edited to say I even made another error on this one: according to the BBC results JV was 1 min 38 secs ahead of Pog so the advantage was 2054/1956=105.01 so a fraction over 5%.
The perils of trying to remember numbers from one tab to another …
tertius
Surely that cannot be, err, shall we say, quite right … Vingegaard beats Pogacar by 108 seconds in 22.4km, that’s 4.8 secs per kilometre! And Pogacar in turn beats van Aert by 73 seconds (another 3.25 secs per km) … meaning Vingegaard was more than 8 seconds per km faster than WVA!
Put it another way Pog’s time was 105.5% of Vingegaard’s. Compare with 2022 - WVA’s winning margin last year (on a longer TT) was 19 secs, less than 0.7%.