Ciao ragazzi! Welcome to live coverage of stage 6 of the Giro d'Italia - a massive (and yet not the longest) 238km schlep from Cassino to San Giovanni Rotondo.

Other obvious danger men in this break are Valentin Madouas, the young French puncheur, Fausto Masnada, the Italian who won twice on the Tour of the Alps, Valerio Conti, the Italian who could be in the maglia rosa tonight, Ruben Plaza, the Spanish veteran who has won stages in both the Tour and Vuelta before, and Andrey Amador, the Costa Rican who is a tidy all-round package.

It's good to see Sam Oomen in this break. The Dutchman will look to bring a smile back to the face of Sunweb following the successive withdrawals of Dumoulin and, today, Power. He's a decent climber and now finds himself in a leadership role for the first time. He was 5'49 down this morning so would rise up the standings if this group stays out.

And here's Mikel Landa, who also went down. He's been in the wars, has the Spaniard: he went down in that crash which effectively ended Tom Dumoulin's race two days ago.

We're getting some photos through the wires of the earlier crash which saw many riders - including the race leader - hit the deck. It looks like it came in an enclosed bit of road where there was really nowhere to go to avoid a sprawling rider in front of you.

Ruben Plaza is in this group - and if the Spanish veteran wins today he'll complete his grand slam of Grand Tour wins. The gap is 4'10" and the clouds look really, really ominous and grey.

The gap is 4'25" with 150km remaining. Looking back to the intermediate sprint, it was Jose Joaquin Rojas who took the spoils ahead of Sam Oomen and Valentin Madouas.

More bad luck for Team Sunweb: they lost Tom Dumoulin yesterday and they're now down to six riders following the withdrawal of Rob Power. The Australian was involved in that earlier crash which saw Roglic hit the deck.

The riders are now approaching the next uncategorised climb - the third of four leg-stretchers ahead of the main test of the day, the Cat.2 climb which kicks off the finale. Jumbo-Visma control the tempo of the peloton, which trails the 13-man break by 3'47".

And after that sunny start, it's returned to form with the rain starting to fall on the peloton. Just a drizzle for now so let's hope that doesn't get worse.

Jumbo-Visma are on the front of the pack with their man Roglic, who seems to be fine despite that road rash on his right butt cheek. The gap is up to 3'40" for the 13 leaders. Bora also have some riders on the front, too.

The leaders have passed through the intermediate sprint with a gap of three minutes over the pack. The best-placed rider in this break is Valerio Conti of UAE Team Emirates who started the day 1'59" down on Roglic. So, the Italian is in the virtual maglia rosa right now...

It looks like this 13-man move could stick. They have two minutes over the peloton, who have now caught Wyss after the Swiss was dropped from the break. The leaders are: José Joaquim Rojas and Andrey Amador (Movistar), Nans Peters (Ag2R-La Mondiale), Pieter Serry (Deceuninck-QuickStep), Ruben Plaza (Israel Cycling Academy), Nicola Bagioli (Nippo-Vino Fantini-Faizanè), Valerio Conti (UAE Team Emirates), Fausto Masnada (Androni Giacattoli-Sidermec), Giovanni Carboni (Bardiani-CSF), Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ), Sam Oomen (Team Sunweb) and Amaro Antunes (CCC Team).

We now have 13 riders together on the front with a lead of two minutes on the pack and one rider - Danilo Wyss of Dimension Data - stuck in between. They're approaching Bojano and the first intermediate sprint.

The six leaders have about 25 seconds on a six-man chase group of Amador, Masnada, Carboni, Antunes, Madouas and Oomen. The peloton, which includes Roglic after that earlier crash, is 55 seconds back. The splits came near the top of that last uncategorised climb, with the riders now on the short descent towards the first intermediate sprint.

There's another move in the making as Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar), Nans Peters (Ag2R-La Mondiale), Pieter Serry (Deceuninck-QuickStep), Ruben Plaza (Israel Cycling Academy), Nicola Bagioli (Nippo Vini Fantini) and Valerio Conti (UAE Team Emirates) zip clear.

It's all back together on this uncategorised climb with the peloton rolling along leisurely following that earlier crash which brought down the maglia rosa. Expect things to get going again properly soon - with a second breakaway attempt surely on the cards after that earlier move came to nothing.

Meanwhile, Nicolas Roche has been joining the Eurosport team for the TV coverage this week - but he's had to keep his training up ahead of the Tour de France, where he'll be supporting Sunweb team-mate Tom Dumoulin, so he's been getting up early to do laps in Richmond Park.

We're hearing that Mikel Landa and Ilnur Zakarin were also involved in that crash which saw Roglic and Majka hit the deck. The peloton has eased up to allow everyone to return. That would have played into the hands of the break, but the incident happened just as that move was neutralised. Let's hope the race leader can get a new pair of shorts. 200km is a long way to have to ride with half your ass hanging out like that...

Cracking photo of the maglia rosa with a bit of his backside hanging out after that earlier crash...