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Bhop
Bhop Posts: 3
edited July 2009 in Pro race
Can anyone please explain the columns on the Horaires (timing) pages? I assume caravanne is when all the official and team cars come through but wha are the other 3 columns which seem to increase by 1 each day?

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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    It's the timing's based on the average speed of the peloton. Obviously, the organisers don't know in advance how fast the race will be going, so they give three schedules... today's was for 40, 38 and 36 km/ph.
  • Bhop
    Bhop Posts: 3
    Thanks Predictive time then ? So how come the predictive time is so much later than the caravanne?
  • Philip S
    Philip S Posts: 398
    The caravanne is the publicity caravan - freak advertising vehicles, throwing lots of free hats, sweets, glasses-cleaning cloths out to the spectators. They go through well ahead of the riders so there's no danger of them causing any problem for the race.

    Team vehicles tend to be just behind the riders.

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