In all the excitement of a Tour de France stage, the spotlight rarely falls on the team bus driver. Except in 2013, when the driver for Orica-GreenEdge, Garikoitz Atxa, endured the infamy of getting the team bus wedged beneath the finish gantry of Stage 1, with the peloton just kilometres from the finish and getting closer by the second.
‘Have you ever had bad luck like that?’ asks EF Education-EasyPost’s bus driver, Richard Romero. ‘Thankfully not,’ the Spaniard replies. ‘It looked very stressful. Mind you, so is driving a long and heavy vehicle up and down
