The secrets of Jonas Vingegaard's extravagant helmet in Tirreno Adriatic

the spanishl Juan Ayuso won this Monday in the first stage of the Tyrrhenian-Adriatic, ua 10-kilometer time trial around Lido di Camaiore (Italy), in which the Dane Jonas Vingegaard He had to be content with ninth place, but the Dane was the protagonist for something else.

Ayuso (UAE) finished in 11 minutes and 24 seconds, at an average speed of 52 km/h, with only one advantage over the great local specialistl Filippo Ganna (Ineos), winner of the initial times of this race in 2022 and 2023.
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Italian Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) was third, 12 seconds behind.

The helmet

“I still have to work,” said Ganna, world reference against the clock, 'touched' after being beaten by Ayuso.

He was defeated by a cyclist who knocked loudly on the door. Ayuso, partner of Tadej Pogacar, At the age of 21, he already has a third place in the Vuelta a España in 2022 and a fourth in 2023.

“It is a very emotional victory for me, an important success against Ganna that will motivate me to fight for the general classification,” declared Ayuso, this year's winner of the Ardeche Classic.

However, another topic of the day was the helmet he wore as a team Visma, a species of shark, which gave something to talk about.

The explanation

“The new aerodynamic element, which does not yet have a commercial name, has been baptized by some as the Tiburon model. It has a substantially larger and higher front than that of traditional chrono models,” said Elñ Diario de Navarra.

And he added: “The cyclists had transferred to the biomechanics the problem that the support of the forearms – increasingly higher – with the face, the neck, and sometimes problems with good visibility and loss of a point, offered on time trial bikes. reference”.

“In the wind tunnel tests the results are very good. The helmet creates a fairing between shoulders, handlebars, head and face which turns everything into a kind of very aerodynamic ball “but now we have to land it in the races, so that the cyclists get used to using it and analyzing the data,” was the explanation of the Spanish Jon Iriberri.

“The laboratory results are one thing, and then you have to see the response on the road and in competition. Now we have to analyze the data, guarantee that we are going to obtain an aerodynamic advantage and get the riders used to it and see the advantages that its use can bring,” Iriberri said.

The newspaper warned that Now the work of analyzing the performance data remains. To do this, the video images of the runner on a bike will be crossed with the helmet, with the power he develops (if it is greater or less than the numbers he usually moves) and his CX, the aerodynamic coefficient of each runner, and compare it with other helmets. that are used. And from there the work of polishing details will begin for the big events on the calendar such as the Giro or the Tour.
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