Orica-Scott Cycling Team Car | Tour de France 2017

GCN’s Matt Stephens takes a look around the team car of the Australian cycling team, Orica-Scott.

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The car has 8 bikes on the roof, 4 of them ready to ride and 4 of them with the front wheel missing.
There is a strategy for placing the bikes on the roof to help mechanics service the team leaders first. Bikes have been put into a gear that is easy to ride in instantly if needed
6 spare wheels are stored on the roof too.
Also on the roof are aerials for both television and radio communications.

The mechanic sits in the back and two sports directors in the front.
The car doors storage pockets are filled with energy products, sweets and suncream.
Women’s stockings are also in the car, these are used as an ice pack. Fill them with ice-cubes and give them to riders to put down their jersey when the temperature is high!

The mechanic has a full portable toolkit in the back seats as well as spare race radios and a TV screen and diagram of where each rider has their spare bike on the roof of the car.

In the boot/trunk of the car, each rider has a “wet bag” which contains spare clothing items for different weather conditions. Nice and simple! As well as some spare helmets.

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– Teams cars are the nerve centre of a professional cycling team on a Grand Tour so let’s have a closer look at the Orica Scott Team Car. (light music) First up let’s have a look at the outside of the car on the roof rack. Now Orica Scott’s got eight bikes on top, four complete bikes and four bikes with the front wheel removed. Now if you look a little bit closer these bikes aren’t put on the roof in any particular order. Oh no, there is actually a strategy for putting bikes on the roof so all of the protected GC riders will have their bikes on the outside. Now on this side of the car we have Roman Kreuziger’s bike also have Estaban Chaves’. As you can notice Chaves’ bike is just that little bit more accessible being on the outside of Roman Kreuziger’s. Now if you just head around the back here as well as the eight bikes we have three front wheels and three back wheels as well. And moving around to the other side, Simon Yates, unsurprisingly, on the outside, easiest to get to as I mentioned before and then we Daryl Impey’s complete bike as well. And on the inside that need the front wheels we’ve got Matt Hayman’s and Michael Albasini’s. As well as accessibility of the bike being vitally important as you can see gears have been preselected for nice easy gear for the rider to pull away in so this one on Simon Yate’s bike, big ring, third at the back so it’s like 53×19. Nice and easy to accelerate. No worries about selecting gears and thus losing vital seconds. As with most team cars at this level they’ve also got a full on satellite system so they can watch the race as it unfolds on the TV inside the car. Another couple areas as well, we got race radio and of course, rider radios for talking between the teams themselves. (soft music) Well we’ve had a look outside the car let’s have a little look inside. This of course is where the directeur sportif will sit. Quite often there will be another directeur sportif sat just here whilst the mechanic sits in the back. It’s focus on this, essentially the nerve centre of the car. Now interestingly, right in the centre of the steering wheel here is the profile for yesterday’s stage and that was actually Stage 9. It’s not only where the climbs are but they’ve actually got the points on the road where the soigneurs are going to be strategically placed so at 16K there’s a soigneur at the side of the road giving bottles also at 67K after the climbs, feed, sprint then another two places on the road where they’re bottles. And quite often if there’s any spares that can be picked up from the side of the road after the rider has gone past the team car will pick those up to make sure they give them to the riders who’ve missed out through those extra little feeds. So a little bit of a strategy marked on the middle of the steering well there. All teams of course, will have race radio. I think this is the race radio. Then they’ll also have this one as well and this is the intercom that basically the directeur sportif or whoever decides to speak to the riders will actually communicate with the riders and they can actually talk back. And quite often cars or some team cars will have a third radio system as well just to talk between team cars. Let’s have a closer look at what is in the side of the door here. Unsurprisingly lots of suntan cream and then really easy access, loads of gels, Etixx gels here. There’s also lots of bars and stuff. Also little packets of sport gummies. So obviously easy access the directeur sportif can wind the window down, rider comes along side, hand them straight out the window. Let’s have a look in the centre console here. We’ve got some breath mints in there. Now, I wonder what these are? These are numerous pairs of women’s stockings. Now basically what these are used for they’ll take them out, they’ll have a cool box in the back, fill these with ice on really hot stages of which we’ve seen several already on this year’s Tour de France, fill them up with ice, tie a know in them hand them through the window and the riders will stick them down the back of their jersey and it will slowly melt and cool them down as they ride along. Got some more suntan cream and energy products on the side there, a race manual. So now let’s head into the back where the mechanic lives. So we’re in the back where the mechanic sits. Now one thing that is absent because we are on a rest day today is two sets of wheels. They’ll generally have two fronts and two back wheels here. What we do have is (zipping) first off a full, portable mechanics tool set as well. So everything they would need out on the road. That’s just there. A couple of towels, some spare radios as well. Next up on the head rest directly in front of where the mechanic sits is firstly a TV screen so they can watch the race unfold. Now they’ll learn a lot of information from that as well. And secondly, just on top of the headrest itself is a map of where the bikes are situated on the roof so basically the mechanic can jump out of the car and know exactly where the bike is of the rider that’s just suffered a mechanical or a puncture. Just in the foot well to the back of the driver here there’s another cool box it’s absolutely jam packed full of energy products to hand out to the riders and of course the people in the car if they get particularly hungry on a long stage. And just down here we have, well an oily rag. No mechanic’s area is complete without of course an oily rag. We’ve got the spare bin liners for the rubbish to keep the car nice and tidy. We’ve got some chain lube as well. Often see bikes needing lubrication especially midway through a wet stage when things dry out. You don’t want a squeaking chain out on the road. And some more tights to put some ice in. And finally, or in French, en finalement, let’s have a look in the boot. Okay well straight away inside we’ve got all of the wet bags. There’ll be two team cars in a race convoy, Team Car #1 and Team Car #2 but in both of the team cars will be a wet bag for every rider. Now this is Team Car #2 so unsurprisingly they’re all marked 2. So this is the wet bag of Roman Kreuziger. Of course, pretty hefty. Clearly marked out wet bag so if Roman Kreuziger were to ride alongside and want some gloves who’s ever in the back can have a look go straight to the glove section and get out a nice pair of thick gloves to keep him warm. Again one of the main things about the team car is easy and rapid access to all of the things that the riders need whilst out on the road. I love these. Super cool. Let’s have a look at what else Roman’s got in there. Here we’ve got spare glasses in there, overshoes, gloves, even spare socks and importantly as well the riders generally in these bags will also have a spare pair of cycling shoes. They’ll have two pairs of shoes whilst out on the road. All you need is a nasty tumble, break the cleats off your shoe. Unless you’ve got a spare pair of shoes it’s game over. Now whilst noseying around the back in the boot I’ve spotted this. Now believe it or not, I think this is a hank or is it a bodge. It’s a towel taped together with some electrical tape and I think it’s a lumbar support for the mechanic on those long days sat in the back seat. Also back here, if we just move some of these wet bags out of the way, we’ve got another fully fledged mechanic’s toolbox as well. And also, although it isn’t here today, there generally will be an enormous cool box filled with ice and filled with cold drinks, generally cans of Coke and beat ons for the riders on the long stage as well. Also just to my left in this webbing got a couple of spare Scott helmets. Two in there. Again you just never know what’s going to happen out on the road and of course, the ubiquitous musette. So there you go. A look at what makes and helps a team tick on a Grand Tour Stage. Now if you don’t want to miss another Global Cycling Network Video then click on the globe and you won’t and it’s absolutely free. Now for another team car tour how about clicking just down here. For team car tour at this year’s Giro d’Italia of the Team Sunweb Mini or if you click just down here you can see me going along on a rest day ride at last year’s Giro d’Italia with Orica Scott.