Every stage of this year's Tour has come down to seconds. That kind of racing isn't an accident. It's the byproduct of a fueling arms race that's changed the game. Here's what the Tour's fastest teams are actually eating out there.
This year's Tour has been one of the tightest in years. Gaps that used to open up in minutes are now measured in seconds, sometimes in photo finishes. Twenty years ago, that kind of margin didn't exist.
So what changed? Carbs. A lot of them.
Riders can now sit in a breakaway for hours in brutal heat and still have enough left to fight for the stage, because they're not hitting a wall like they used to.
Pogačar and UAE are fueled with Enervit, specifically the C2:1 line. We're obsessed with the mango flavor. Can't tell you if it actually tastes like mango (or what a mango gel is even supposed to taste like) but it's absolutely delicious. This one's personal for us, too: it's the gel that was still top secret last year, the one we fought to get into our warehouse in time for the Tour so you could try it.
After taking yellow in yesterday's stage, an interviewer told Pogačar he looked hungry. His answer:
"I take a gel every 30 minutes, so it's not that bad."
Every 30 minutes. That's the whole revolution in one sentence.
Vingegaard's Visma squad, the ones who won the Barcelona time trial by seconds, race on Amacx and treat fueling like an engineering problem.
Maurten's hydrogel is in the pockets at Uno-X and INEOS. Same tech that's been under more Tour winners than any fuel in history.
And Alex Baudin spent nearly all of stage 3 alone off the front and still had the legs to bring the polka dot jersey home. That's an EF rider eating every 20 minutes for five hours, on schedule, no matter what.
So we decided, why not build packs around exactly what each team is using? Now you can fuel like your favorite pros — from high-carb gels to post-race cherries.
