in my opinion teams like portugal, spain and other have to endurance the pace to difficult sprinters arrived with the bests. rui costa is a ig favourite but in my opinion sagan, valverde and kristoff are the favourites.

i dont think it suits pure sprinters – look at overall climbed meters: more than 4200. that is equal to vueltas hardest king stage 16. i think even classical types of riders like cancellara will have problems.

my bet on top10 is valverde, sagan, purito, (although those 2 will be death after vuelta), kwiatkovski, stybar, lobato, navardauskas, gerrans, van avarmaet, geraint thomas, vanmarcke, terpstra, wiggins, vanendert,pozzovivo, trentin

It is probably to difficult for a sprinter like Cavendish. It fits better for persons like Valverde and Sagan.

Flying to Oviedo, Santander or Santiago de Compostella are probably the best options. Madrid is about 390 km away.