LUNACY IN LILLE | RaceTV 100th EP | Stage One, Tour de France | EF Pro Cycling

Alright RaceTV Fans, join us for a feat often predicted but never before achieved. A feat so grandiose no one was able to properly calculate the sleep deficit and effort involved to achieve it. A feat some are calling, “pretty cool, I guess” and “wow, really?” The 100th RaceTV episode. You heard that right, we have 100 RaceTV episodes live, right now, on our YouTube account. What better excuse to watch another!

Tonight we have Ben’s fan club, Lille facts with Soso, and some CHOTIC racing to kick off the TdF. We’re sad to see Marijn go down, and wish him the best in his recovery throughout the race.

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Stage one 2025 tour of to France and uh even more excitingly the 100th episode of Race TV. Race TV. Yeah. Yeah. Episode 100 episode. I am so excited for the 100th episode today. Episode 100. It’s the first day of the tour. What day is it? Start of a tour of France. Go. [Music] It’s special to be at the start of the tour. So, I’m excited. I’m feeling really excited and same time nervous for my first tour. Thank you. We are in Leo Metropole now. We’re making ourselves ready for stage one. A windy stage wind. Did you all look at it? 184 kilm. But the wind gives us the chance to come with a smaller group. And a smaller group means a chance for marine or depending on how small it is, a chance for somebody to clip off. a kilometer, 900 m to go and do something a bit more open, right? But in principle, we want a smaller group to sprint for Marine. And the fewer people we get there with, the more chances all of us have. Let’s go [Applause] education. [Music] [Applause] Yeah. Same same group of people. And it’s Jack. Grandad. We got M. Yeah, we got the additional cuz you got granddad this time. So, the the latest addition to the fan club is Ben’s granddad. We’ve broke this one in. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh so I’m his mom. Well, I’m losing my stickers. So, Ben’s um I’m I’m famous. I’m I’m known from base TV. So, I don’t need to label myself. The fans know me already. In fact, I have to take it off just I’m hassled less. These are basically Gentlegum style roads today. [Music] Bonjour. Welcome. So this is the first stage of the tour. And then Leil is a city in north of France close to Belgium. And then this city is really famous for this festival in September where everyone comes and eat muscles. I think it’s about 500 tons of muscles been eating over the weekend. So it’s pretty crazy. Muscles, French fries, and beers. And then when you eat the muscle, you just threw the shells on the straight. I guess he grew up. Nope. Never. Voila. Try to save as much as possible. And then I guess you also just follow your instinct then because yeah, it’s so hectic probably. So 28 riders lead. [Applause] Good work, Harry. Good work. [Music] 4Ks to go. There’s more direction changes. Take a chance whenever you get one, boys. Take a chance whenever you get one. Crash. Marine, [Music] we’re on the way. I’m coming with the car. Can you make it okay? Can you make it okay? Can you make it okay? Okay. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] We were always uh representing the team with three two actually six Seven people never less could have happened four or five times. All those times we would have been uh in the mix. Happened very late. We were in the mix with three. The person we wanted to race for he crashed which with Marine. Uh didn’t speak with him yet. Uh knock on wood right that nothing happened, nothing bad. And then uh we look forward to tomorrow and the next day. First day of the tour. How was it? Super super stressful all day from the start. Everyone was wanted to stay in the front and uh in the end uh we had split the last 20k but yeah it was a really stressful day. How are the crowds? Amazing. The the whole day you have just full of people on the road so yeah it’s uh it’s amazing. pretty stressful the whole day. I think every time it was open, the whole pelon was pushing to the front and like even in all the towns, it was just slamming on the brakes and sprinting when it really matters. The same way I could see it and I was like, can I jump across that? It’s like a bunch finish for 180k today. Yeah. I can’t even say can’t even remember how many times I did a just full gas sprint to make up like two positions in the bell time. So yeah, I don’t know. It’s a bummer. I think uh Marine went down in the end and yeah, hopefully we can find out how he is. I haven’t heard anything yet. No one. We will do good and we always knew we were going to do good, right? It’s just difficult to sprint against the fastest sprinter or to climb against the best climber if you have uh uh not carropass or if Marine crashes. But tomorrow is another day and uh we’re going to give it a go. [Music] Hello. Yeah.