Evenepoel briefly held up by Tour cars on Col du Haag

Traffic disrupts Evenepoel’s climb

Remco Evenepoel’s already uneven Tour de France rhythm nearly took another hit on Saturday when he was briefly held up on the Col du Haag by race traffic.

According to road.cc, Evenepoel said after the stage that a Tour de France organisers’ car and a Shimano neutral service vehicle slowed him down during what was described as a chaotic climb. The incident did not come with a stated time loss or confirmed race-changing consequence in the report, but it is still the kind of detail that matters in a race where pacing and positioning are tightly controlled.

The bigger point is not just that Evenepoel met traffic. It is that a climb already defined as chaotic became harder to manage because vehicles were in the wrong place relative to a rider trying to maintain momentum. For a rider using a yo-yo approach at this Tour, even a brief interruption can complicate the rhythm of closing gaps, settling effort, and staying connected to the race situation.

Full details are at the linked road.cc source.