Ciao ragazzi! Welcome to live coverage of stage 16 of the Giro d'Italia. We've had the second rest day and now it's business time: three summit finish remain in this race clustered around one day offering some scraps to the sprinters, then there's the small matter of the final time trial in Verona, which could be key.

Fausto Masnada wins the intermediate sprint for Androni ahead of Joe Dombrowski. Next up, the Mortirolo.

The break is back together and riding through a dense cloud of pollen. Lucky Wiggo is in the Eurosport studio and not out there in the break today, eh?

Nieve and Juul Jensen are on the front of the break and driving the pace, momentarily spliting things in two as they approach the intermediate sprint. Rain, meanwhile, is forecast for the Mortirolo...

The descent complete, the break is now on the small hill that precedes the Mortirolo, which they will tackle today from what is considered to be the harder side. Ventoso still has a small gap over the other escapees, who lead the pack by 5'17".

CRASH: Antonio Pedrero goes down on a tight bend near the front of the pack - just behind his Movistar teammate and man in pink, Carapaz. It's nothing serious but that could have been worse had they been in a different position.

Fran Ventoso has edged ahead of the break on the descent, the Spanish veteran taking these sweeping corners rather gingerly and almost riding into the wall on one of them. Back with the pack Movistar are down to five riders on the front. Jasha Sutterlin, who was doing tempo for a long time earlier in the stage, was dropped on that last climb.

The riders in the peloton are now jostling for position ahead of the descent from Aprica.

Once again it's Ciccone who takes the maximum 9pts going over the summit in Aprica with Androni duo Cattaneo and Masnada cresting just behind. Ventoso took the final point on offer when the others came through.

The peloton are over half way up this climb now and there's no change in the state of play with Movistar on the front of the pack and the leaders holding a gap of 5'15". It looks like this one will come down to the Mortirolo - both the climb and descent - and that final rose into Ponte di Legno.

Do you agree?

Joe Dombrowski is in the break - could he finally get his stage win today?

We're hearing that Frenchman Tony Gallopin (Ag2R-La Mondiale) has withdrawn. He'd been involved in a couple of breaks but Gallopin - who was 56 minutes down in 37th place - wasn't riding his best Grand Tour.

Our 21 escapees have hit the Cat.3 climb of Aprica, for which the official race site have not provided any information vis-a-via length and gradient. Onscreen graphics says that the KOM point is in another 10.5km - and it looks pretty steep right now - so let’s say that this one will be a bit of a pre-Mortirolo leg-sapper. The pack is 4’45” down.

The break ride through the feed zone with their gap up to 5’15”.

Masnada finishes ahead of teammate Cattaneo at the intermediate sprint at Edolo. More money for the Androni Giacattoli kitty.

Carapaz and Landa’s Movistar still front the peloton on this descent ahead of the yellow army of Primoz Roglic and the red Bahrain Merida troupe of Nibali. The break have reached the bottom with a gap of 4’25”. They’ll steadily rise now until the intermediate sprint, after which we will have the second part of this additional Gavia replacement scheme.

A few more raindrops now as the riders approach the summit and pick up bidons from the roadside soigneurs. When the summit comes it’s Ciccone who takes the maximum 8pts over the top ahead of Androni duo Cattaneo and Masnada.

Caruso, Schwarzmann and Bidard setting the tempo on the front of the break on this climb. The gap is fairly stable at 4’42”. Meanwhile, a gruppetto has formed including the maglia ciclamino Arnaud Demare, who will have a battle to make the time cut over the Mortirolo.

Caruso and Owsain drive the break through a forest on this delightful climb. I’m surprised it’s never been used before, but then again, when you stand right next to the Gavia and Mortirolo, I guess it’s easy to get overlooked.

The leaders are onto the first categorised climb of the day, the newly added Cat.3 Cevo climb (10.6km at 5.9%). This is the first time it has been used in the Giro. The road surface is pretty coarse and the gradient peaks at 13% in the first third. This climb and the next are being used instead of the Gavia, which has been ruled out owing to snow blocking the top.