 In some stages (2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 12), the national teams started 10 minutes before the touriste-routiers.One of these "touriste-routiers" was Max Bulla.In the second stage, when the "touriste-routiers" started 10 minutes later than the national teams, Bulla overtook the national teams, won the stage and took the lead, the only time in history that a "touriste-routier" was leading the Tour de France.