When Netcompany joined Ineos as title sponsors of the British WorldTour team just a couple of months ago, it came with a stated ambition of winning the Tour de France within the next five years. 18 stages into the first edition of this new era, and the AI systems powering this new era for the team may well be forced into some recalculations.
Ineos have had a rotten Tour so far, and time is rapidly running out to salvage anything from it.