I was suspicious about Visma-Lease a Bike’s Tour de France “Control Room” van from the start. The idea behind it was, apparently, to create a command post from which the team could monitor a race and make tactical decisions.
My doubts were aroused because normally when a team concocts a new marginal gain, they are at least a tiny bit secretive about it. It seemed unusual to write “Control Room” on the side of the van in letters as large as would fit, and then release several moody photographs of it posing in a grassy meadow as if it was auditioning for a shampoo commercial.
