The leaders today aren't your 1hr+ behind breakaway-hoping-for-some-points-guys, they're the top domestiques of the teams, set to monitor & control any breaks for their leader. Other teammates w/ the teamleaders in the peloton stand ready to lead their man to the front, & up the climbs, when the time is right. Really quite a ballet...
Interesting that both Landis and the Yellow jersey both have riders in the break
To answer your mail question Freddy, I am looking at the Gap function on letour.fr as well. I am just typing pretty fast, which is amazing when you consider I am pretty much a three finger typist. (two on my right hand, one on my left)
Hincapie's group (my label) are 4:17 ahead of the peloton.
The chase group's gap on the peloton is decreasing, down to 0:55. Phonak is picking it up.