PERUGIA, Italy (AP) — It looks as though no one will stop Tadej Pogacar from winning the Giro d’Italia on his debut, despite there being two weeks left of the Italian grand tour.

Pogacar blew everyone away on the seventh stage on Friday in winning the lengthy individual time trial, and strengthened his grip on the pink jersey.

The Slovenian star extended his overall lead to 2 minutes, 36 seconds over Daniel Martinez, and 2:46 over Geraint Thomas, who had been second at the start of the day, 46 seconds behind Pogacar.

“After the world championships last year, today was my first race on the TT bike again,” Pogacar said. “It was a lot of preparation for this and a lot of ups and downs since last year in the time trial so I’m super happy that today I felt good.

“I started a bit with an easier pace, I had to get used to the TT bike. Then I paced myself until the climb and I climbed full gas.”