Tour of California Stage 6: Solvang > Solvang, 24kms (Photos by Will Swetnam)

Andy Schleck was only able to take 38th - 2:15 off the pace.

American Time Trial National Champion Taylor Phinney finished 21st today, 1:37 off the pace...

Grischa Niermann took 20th at 1:34.

Laurens Tan Dam took 19th today, 1:34 off the pace.

Stannard of Sky was 18th on the day, 1:32 back.

Lazlo Bodrogi of Team Type 1 was 17th on the day, 1:31 back.

Brent Bookwalter took 16th at 1:27 off the pace.

Linus Gerdemann took 15th for Leopard TREK, 1:27 off the pace.

Sagan sprinted to 14th today, 1:15 off the pace.

Tom Danielson took 13th today - 1: 13 back...

Danny Pate was 12th today, 1:10 in arrears.

Andrew Talansky of Garmin was just outside the top ten, 11th at 1:10.

Christian Vandevelde cracked the top 10 - tenth at 1:01 back.

Rory Sutherland took 9th today, 59 seconds back.

Jeremy Vennell was 8th on the day, 59 seconds back.

Jakob Fuglsang was 53 seconds off the pace, good for 7th today.

Not known for his time trialing, Chris Horner was able to manage his losses and retain the lead in the GC... he finished only 51 seconds off the winning time for sixth.

Maarten Tjallingii took 5th on the day, 49 off the pace.

Peter Velits was 4th on the day, 48 seconds back.

The American upcomer Tejay Van Garderen powered his way to the podium, 40 seconds off the top step; third on the day.

Levi wanted the 4-peat at Solvang, and was up by 1 second at the split, but faded to finish 14 seconds off the pace for second.

Zabriskie was looking fast as he entered the last corner...

...and he powered his way to first place and a new course record of 30:32!

Dave Zabriskie's son Waylon received the kisses for the top step of the podium today.

Horner is all smiles, with 38 seconds in hand over teammate Leipheimer, and 1:38 over Sutherland - he's in a good position to win the overall.