Gallery: Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah stage 2

Matthias Friedemann keeps cool before the Champion System team sets out on the team time trial. Track temperatures exceeded 100 degrees during competition. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Peter Stetina looks over Garmin-Sharp bikes awaiting competition. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Christian Vande Velde contemplates the race ahead. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Garmin-Sharp riders meet before the team time trial. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Jacob Rathe readies his aero helmet before the team time trial. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Dave Zabriskie prepares to head out for pre-race course inspection. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies rides to seventh, 1:03 off the winning time. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Argos-Shimano sets the fastest time of the first teams, but slid to 14th by the end of the stage. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Omega Pharma - Quick Step couldn't find its rhythm and wound up at the bottom of the leader board at the end of the day. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Peter Velits leads the Omega Pharma - Quick Step team around the Miller Motorsports venue. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Team NetApp rides to the top the leader board early with a 23:45, but slid to 10th. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Blazing hot temperatures, winds from many directions and a complex parcours makes the Miller Motorsport venue a challenge. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

In the points jersey, Damiano Caruso leads Liquigas-Cannondale to 12th in the stage. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Rabobank rides a clean time trial to finish second and set up Steven Kruijswijk for the GC. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

By mid-stage, overcast skies offer some relief from the heat. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

U.S. time trial champion Dave Zabriskie leads the Garmin-Sharp team into the finish. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Dave Zabriskie takes one of many long pulls on the front in the last three kilometers of the time trial course. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

RadioShack-Nissan rides to a solid third, just 38 seconds off the winning time. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Joe Dombrowski leads the Bontrager-Livestrong team to a ninth-place finish. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Jens Voigt leads the RadioShack-Nissan team through one of the almost constant corners on the time trial course. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

BMC Racing starts second-to-last and finishes sixth. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

With Rory Sutherland in yellow, UnitedHealthcare is last out of the start house and rides to a fifth-place time. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

The Utah TTT goes much better for BMC Racing than the same discipline at the Eneco Tour, where the squad crashed on Tuesday. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Race leader Rory Sutherland takes UnitedHealthcare around the motor racing track. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Christian Vande Velde is the race leader heading into stage 3 of the Tour of Utah. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Christian Vande Velde, following the Garmin-Sharp victory. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Garmin-Sharp, atop the podium following its victory in the team time trial. Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com

Classification leaders heading into stage 3 of the Tour of Utah are (l-r) Rory Sutherland (sprint), Jesse Anthony (most aggressive), Ben Jacques-Maynes (KOM), Christian Vande Velde (general classification), Wilco Kelderman (best young rider), and Connor O'Leary (best Utah rider). Photo: Wil Matthews | VeloNews.com