How do Tour de France teams use stage-specific fuelling strategies? Ineos Grenadiers shares its tactics

SiS and Team Ineos share their stage-specific fuelling strategies ahead of the toughest opening week in decades

Ineos Grenadiers rider carrying a musette in a stage of the Tour de France
(Image credit: SiS)

The men's edition of the 2023 Tour de France is just about to start, with the toughest first week we’ve seen in about half a century! This means that we may well see some substantial GC gaps as early as Stage 6 and the first summit finish. And this means that teams will need to make sure everything is optimised from day one. 

We spoke with Ineos Grenadiers rider Luke Rowe, Lead Performance Nutritionist at Ineos Grenadiers, Aitor Viribay Morales, and SiS’s Commercial Director for Performance Solutions, Sam Driver, to understand how the World Tour team and its riders will prepare for each stage of the 2023 edition of the Tour de France. 

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