S11 Ep74: Stage 4 | Dax – Nogaro | Tour de France 2023
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🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast at the 2023 Tour de France. |
| 0:05.0 | Today we're in Nogaro. |
| 0:16.0 | Where are we from? |
| 0:18.0 | We're in the circuit in Nogaro, that's a model racing race course. |
| 0:23.0 | It's one of the oldest circuits in tracks in France, actually. |
| 0:29.0 | It started to be really operative in the 1960s. |
| 0:32.0 | I mean, in this shape, it's now its called Paul Armagnac, |
| 0:37.0 | which is rather raw, I mean, it's named after a local driver |
| 0:43.0 | who competed in a number of Grand Prix. |
| 0:45.0 | At the time, from the one you had World Championship Grand Prix |
| 0:48.0 | and others that were not in the World Championship. |
| 0:50.0 | In this case, they were not in the World Championship, |
| 0:53.0 | but Paul Armagnac died tragically in Montlering, 1962. |
| 0:57.0 | And the circuit took his name. |
| 1:01.0 | I mean, he had a typical name of the area, |
| 1:04.0 | because as everybody knows, Armagnac is the local drink here |
| 1:08.0 | and Paul Armagnac bore the name of the most famous drink of the area. |
| 1:13.0 | And the circuit was built itself because it was a response to |
| 1:17.0 | the number of casualties in street racing motor racing. |
| 1:21.0 | So they built the circuit here at Nogaro and the Tour de France |
| 1:24.0 | finished here, and by my reckoning, the first Tour de France stage |
| 1:27.0 | to finish on a motor racing circuit since 1989 in Spa, |
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