Tour de France 2013: Chris Froome wins his third stage of this year's race to consolidate hold on yellow jersey But where Contador stuck with his road bike throughout, Froome had changed to his time trial bike midway through the stage and was 20 seconds quicker than his rival over the final 13 kilometres. As well as increasing his overall lead, the victory makes Froome only the second Briton to have won more than two stages in any one Tour, with Mark Cavendish the other. There were clear reminders of the dangers posed by the course and the conditions on it. Jean-Christopher Peraud of AG2R La Mondiale began the stage despite suffering a small fracture to his clavicle when he came off during a practice ride of the route this morning, and he then crashed again two kilometres from the finish, forced to abandon the Tour from ninth place overall. The same corner saw Mollema crash into the barriers but remain upright, while Roman Kreuziger had a major wobble before his team-mate Contador took it much more carefully. With the weather easing before the main contenders attacked the course, the lead changed several times late on. Alejandro Valverde had sent the standard which Contador beat by less than a second before in turn being trumped by Froome. Mollema could only manage 11th place, two minutes nine seconds behind Froome's time of 51m 33sec, and drops to fourth overall behind Contador and Kreuziger. Tour de France 2013, Chorges, France Leading positions after Stage 17 (Embrun - Chorges (ITT), 32km): 1 Christopher Froome (Gbr) Sky Procycling 51mins 33secs, 2 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Team Saxo-Tinkoff at 9secs, 3 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha at 10, 4 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Team Saxo-Tinkoff at 23, 5 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team at 30, 6 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team at 1.11, 7 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-Quick Step at 1.33, 8 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team at 1.34, 9 Andrew Talansky (USA) Garmin-Sharp at 1.41, 10 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team at 1.51, 11 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team at 2.09, 12 Maxime Monfort (Bel) RadioShack Leopard at 2.17 Selected Others: 56 David Millar (Gbr) Garmin-Sharp at 4mins 45secs, 78 Geraint Thomas (Gbr) Sky Procycling at 5.34, 145 Peter Kennaugh (Gbr) Sky Procycling at 7.04, 160 Mark Cavendish (Gbr) Omega Pharma-Quick Step at 7.35, 172 Ian Stannard (Gbr) Sky Procycling at 8.4 General classification after Stage 17: 1 Christopher Froome (Gbr) Sky Procycling 66hrs 07mins 09secs, 2 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Team Saxo-Tinkoff at 4mins 34secs, 3 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Team Saxo-Tinkoff at 4.51, 4 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team at 6.23, 5 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team at 6.58, 6 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha at 7.21, 7 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team at 8.23, 8 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team at 8.56, 9 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-Quick Step at 11.10, 10 Daniel Martin (Irl) Garmin-Sharp at 12.50 Selected Others: 81 Peter Kennaugh (Gbr) Sky Procycling at 1hr 44mins 14secs, 99 David Millar (Gbr) Garmin-Sharp at 1.56.47, 141 Mark Cavendish (Gbr) Omega Pharma-Quick Step at 2.33.49, 148 Ian Stannard (Gbr) Sky Procycling at 2.40.32, 158 Geraint Thomas (Gbr) Sky Procycling at 2.45.17