Matteo Trentin won the very windy second stage of the Tour du Poitou-Charentes. We have already posted several reactions. Below you can read what Sebastien Chavanel (FDJ) and Rudy Kowalski (Roubaix) who took the mountains jersey, told Directvelo.

"I do not like to fight in the peloton," Kowalski told Directvelo. "When I saw the weather at the start and there was wind, I thought it would be better to spend the day in front again. I tried to take maximum points for the polka dot jersey. Only in the last GPM I was unable to score points since Etixx had already caught us. 

"I made ​​sure to have the jersey until Friday morning. Then we will see how the last stage pans out. There is no real strategy to have to keep the jersey. I may have to join the break on Fridau. I will first try to do a good TT, a race that I like. But we'll see if I will pay for the efforts of the past two days. I always enjoy myself especially late in the season."

"We had hoped to win this stage," Chavanel told Directvelo. "There will be tomorrow and Friday to try because without being pessimistic, it will be complicated in the TT. We will try to do well. 

"In this 2nd stage, Marc (Sarreau) wanted to play the card in the sprint but he was caught out.These are things that happen. We still had Mathieu (Landagnous) and Johan (Le Bon) in the leading group. 

"We see that this Tour Poitou-Charentes is not a sprint race but it is good for the show. Now we are no longer sure of anything, even regarding tomorrow morning. We're not sure there will be a sprint because with what happened on the first two days, it can give ideas. There will be a fight tomorrow which is pretty good. 

"There are no big sprinters in the race this year, so there are no teams to block the race. So it is an attacking race. It's rare, but it is also what people ask for. That's pretty good for everyone, it also shows that we can do something else than block races for sprint finishes or mountaintop finishes. We are riders who like action. "