Thibaut Pinot will never win the TdF - he doesn't have the right temperament for top level bike racing.
Dangerous statement to make (with such a young guy), because personally I do feel he has the climbing skills for it... and in his defense, he seems to have (mostly) worked out his fear for descending in 1 year time, so it shows he has resilience
Anyway... only if a nobber like me remembers this statement of you it won't come back to bite you in the...
By the way, I agree with
@Crackle that he had lost too much time already, so he had no way to come back to the first group speeding away and he would be eventually caught by the next group anyway.
He definitely lost his temper, but when you're really going for something is it that abnormal that there is frustration to be seen at the moment that you see your season's goal disappearing? (haven't we seen many other cyclists in the past get angry on their bikes or others riders when things weren't going in their favour?)
Hats off to Quintana not to lose any time. Didn't look comfortable at all and bit isolated in times? Didn't see many of his team around... but he made it which is the most important fact.
Was quite obvious as well that Valverde wasn't in any way bothered to look if Quintana was still around (since he was mostly in the front and Quitana struggling in the back)
