Mexico’s Isaac Del Toro won the second stage of the 2026 Tour de France on Sunday afternoon, shepherded across the finish line by his UAE Team Emirates XRG leader Tadej Pogačar. The pair finished just ahead of Remco Evenepoel, the Belgian seeing his Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe co-leader Florian Lipowitz distanced by 10 seconds in the closing stages.Jonas Vingegaard finished fourth, and retains the yellow jersey, although his lead over Pogačar has been reduced to six seconds. Paul Seixas and Tom Pidcock finished ninth and 10th respectively, in a group that finished three seconds behind the front four, and which included Juan Ayuso, who came 12th.After a three-man breakaway made up of Felix Engelhardt (who won the day’s combativity award), Frank van den Broek, and Alex Molenaar (who will wear the polka-dot jersey tomorrow) spent the early part of the day out front, the three finishing circuits in Barcelona promised fireworks and they delivered, with UAE taking control of the race in the hilly latter stages thanks to some exceptional work on the front by Brandon McNulty and Adam Yates.Del Toro found himself two minutes behind the peloton with around 60 kilometres to go due to a mechanical — and having to be sorted out by UAE’s second team car after the first one had sped past him — but made his way back to the front of the bunch in time for the day’s dramatic finale. He’s only the second Mexican to win a stage at the Tour de France after Raúl Alcalá, who recorded one in both 1989 and 1990.Jacob Whitehead and Duncan Alexander analyse the day.