Silence-Lotto start their Vuelta without Cadel Evans - and take a suitably low placing of 14th..!

The AG2R team took 13th place today...

David Moncoutie led the Cofidis team to a decent placing of 12th…

Damiano Cunego led Lampre to 11th place today - the little Italian looks hungry for success!

Davide Rebellin and Stefan Schumacher are in charge of a Gerolsteiner team that took 10th place...

Milram looked good in Granada - and took 9th place...

Alberto Contador led Astana to 8th place, with their cornering technique needing some attention...

The Rabobank team lifted itself to take 7th place in Granada...

The Tinkoff team looked fast and smooth on its way to 6th place...

Jurgen Van Goolen led the CSC-Saxo team to a fine 5th place...

With Paolo Bettini and Tom Boonen somewhere back there, Quick-Step scorched to 4th place...

The Caisse d'Epargne team took Alejandro Valverde into a respectable third place...

Egoi Martinez led Euskatel to an astonishingly good second-place!

The Liquigas team was the fastest of the day, they rode at over 55.320 kilometres-per-hour to win the opening stage!

Filippo Pozzato was first across the line and takes the leader's jersey of this Vuelta - shame about his dodgy moustache though..!