Can anyone on this thread supply me with any numbers for the tour,as what goes on behind the scenes must be mind blowing. In yesterdays T/T each rider had a car following them,so thats 150 + motors. Then you have the motorbikes/mechanics with trucks/race officials,the press etc,etc.
How do they all find fuel for their motors. Then for 21 nights you need maybe up to 1,000 hotel rooms at each overnight stop. The numbers must be mind blowing !!
If anyone can post figures i would be very interested.
Mista h
I don't have any exact numbers, but it takes several hours for the whole caravan to pass a single point on the race course. The race goes at 40 - 50 km/hr, so the whole show is about 150km to 200km long. On some shorter stages, the head of the caravan will be finished before the race starts. First some police motorcycles. Then the promotional caravan 50-100 vehicles, bit of a break, then more police and officials checking and clearing the course. Perhaps 50 motorbikes doing this. Then the race itself with following team and race official/referee cars. At least 3 team cars per team (maybe more) plus others likely totals about 100 cars. Camera and official and technical support motorbikes everywhere - another 100?. Many cars and motorbikes are seemingly pointless. Many official/VIP cars sprinkled in.
The support vehicles not involved in the actual racing (team buses, team trucks and race organizer trucks with the grandstands, barricades, signs, safety padding etc etc) go via alternate routes, so you'd want to add those on.
It is a big show.
(In the TT, the team cars re-cycle - they go back to the start for the next rider. It isn't 1 car per rider). In the event that a team can't get one of their cars back in time (they know ahead of time with the starting order), they'll use a neutral support car (those yellow Mavic ones). You don't see this that much on TV as the teams schedule the team cars so the "important" riders always will have one, you know, for the cameras.
