Benji Naesen

But to go beyond the Kafl and UAE here for a second, I do want to go to the top two teams because those are very relevant ones to talk about.

And I want to start off with Net Company Ineos because they were looking fantastic their entire team time trial.

I'm talking best time here, best time there, beating Visma, EF, and so forth at every single time check.

Then they get just before they hit the final hill,

Now, to me, mentally, it's shit for the Dauphine that this happens.

Let's be clear about that.

But on the other hand...

This Dauphiné team time trial is for 90% of these teams

mostly trying to figure out if everything's looking fine for the team time trial at the tour de france because it's the dress rehearsal is that a nice way to to say it because that company in eos can take from this stage that if only's mechanical does not happen they probably win this team time trial so their setup and pacing plan and whatever looks pretty fantastic for the tour de france for example now if i if i lie

They're Shimano, right?

Maybe this is a dumb question.

I'm pretty sure the one buy they had in the team time trial had one of those chain guards.

What was the second rider?

yeah and the funny thing with watson to me was that when he had his mechanical gary thomas jumps out of the car and just stares at him just just aura farming it's so funny probably just to like say calm down there's no point in hurrying anymore but it was really funny though i think any of us would go into the tour as ttt favorites if they have ghana in kviakovsky in and you assume no mechs probably good for them that they have the mechs here and then they sort it out for the tour

So he's got some work to do before the Tour de France.

We'll see if he gets to that required level for that.

But when it comes to the rest of the team, I'm pretty sure Tollett had a mechanical in the downhill as well.

Oh no, future Jonas Vingegaard has dropped out of GC, Patrick.

Yeah, and both teams had issues.

The Watson mechanical matters a lot in a team time trial, I believe.