Dust and drama: my day on the Tour de France gravel in a pink Cadillac

Dust and drama: my day on the Tour de France gravel in a pink Cadillac

With stage nine’s gravel roads providing a brutal challenge for riders, it was a mercy to watch from the passenger seat

Tom Southam is getting a sinking feeling. After four hours at the wheel of the EF Education EasyPost team car, guiding the Irishman Ben Healy through 14 sections of narrow, dusty farm tracks east of Troyes, the Holy Grail – a stage win in the Tour de France – is within touching distance.

I’m sitting in the passenger seat alongside Southam, one of the American team’s three sports directors, for stage nine of the 2024 Tour. It’s like sitting in the dugout at the Euros, dreading penalties, but without the existential angst.

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