Three editions ago the Tour de France offered it’s last cobbles and Tony Martin powered to a rather clean victory. The year before that, La Grande Boucle offered stretches of pavé too, and, in rainy conditions, the race turned out to be much more dramatic. Both pre-race favourites Chris Froome and Alberto Contador were forced to abandoned, while Lars Boom soloed to the win and Vincenzo Nibali rode a perfect race, which ultimately led to the overall that year.
The cobbled stage in the 2018 Tour de France features fifteen stretches of pavé. Totalling at 21.7 kilometres this is the greatest distance of cobbles included in the Tour’s last five ventures onto the pavé.
The highest cobble density is between kilometre 84.5 and kilometre 137 as this section takes in eleven stretches of pavé with the last one Camphin-en-Pévèle. In that same order the sections were included in the 2017 edition of Paris-Roubaix, but while the riders continued to Carrefour de l’Arbre after Camphin-en-Pévèle, they now head for Willems à Hem, which is the final pavé of this year’s Tour de France. It amounts to 1.4 kilometre before the riders leave the cobbles behind with 8 kilometres remaining. The finish is not inside but just outside the Roubaix Velodrome.
The first three riders on the line take time bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds, while the first intermediate sprint (at kilometre 59) is for green jersey points and the second (at kilometre 138.5) for time bonuses of 3, 2 and 1 seconds.
Read also: results/race report 9th stage 2018 Tour de France.
Tour de France 2018 stage 9: Route maps, height profiles, and more
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Video: highlights 2017
i think this year tour de france is not hard
Any update on Stage 9 start time?
Hi Gary,
you can find the scheduled times at the bottom of the text.
Hendrik
Do you know what time the stage starts? I’m trying to figure out when they’ll be on the pave. Thanks.
We do not have the official times yet, but the start is probably around 13:30. They will hit the first cobbles probably around 14:30 and the finish is expected around 17:15.
We will post the scheduled times as soon as they are available, hopefully the end of June.
When will daily race schedule times be available- where?
Gary
Probably in the beginning of June.
Do you know when the detailed routes of each stage will be made available
Hi,
we will add some more information later today, but the exact details of the routes will come somewhere at the end of June.
Hendrik