If you get stopped and your in the main field, tough luck. If you are in a breakaway, you get the same time advantage!
Nice dodging of the boom gates. Probably illegal though 🙂
The riders in a break only get to keep their time advantage if they are more than 30 seconds in front and the chasers catch up to them while they are stopped. If no-one catches up with them, it is still tough luck.
It was good riding to get under the boom gate though. You would have been fuming to have to wait the 4 minutes or whatever it was that the team cars had to sit for. Given the time gap from the leaders, it would have caused some more exclusions.