Team CSC holds onto the lead as JJ Haedo takes his first stage of the 2008 Tour of California. This is his fifth stage win at the race, and his he has his victories in the inaugaral 2006 race to thank for getting him on Team CSC.

The day started with Jackson Stewart of BMC attacking with some others at around the 15km mark. The other attacks were short lived, but Stewart hung on, building a lead of as much as thirteen minutes while the field was content to let him suffer.

BMC took the Most Aggressive and KOM jerseys for the day, and he was finally caught at the bottom of the mountain, setting up the peloton for a fast final 30km into the field sprint.

The action really started to pick up when the race came into the final 3 circuits in Santa Rosa. Slipstream was working to get their sprinter, Tyler Farrar into place, while CSC, Quickstep and BMC were also working for their riders. In the end it was Haedo led out by Fabian Cancellera, who came across the line first.

George Hincapie had a minor wreck a little back from the finish, but is expected to be okay for tomorrow’s stage.

Today’s Results:

1 Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Team CSC 4.03.29 (38.37 km/h)2 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) High Road 3 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 Dominique Rollin (Can) Toyota - United Pro Cycling Team 5 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step 6 Tyler Farrar (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented by H30 7 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 8 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9 Freddie Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing 10 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank

General classification after stage 1

1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC               4.07.20

2 Tyler Farrar (USA) Slipstream/Chipotle H30        0.02

3 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) High Road                   0.04

4 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana                      0.06

5 David Millar (GBr) Slipstream/Chipotle H30        0.07

6 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Team CSC                     0.08

7 David Zabriskie (USA) Slipstream/Chipotle H30 

8 Benjamin Jacques-Maynes (USA) Bissell             0.09

9 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) High Road                       

10 Christian VandeVelde (USA) Slipstream/Chipotle   0.10