Pogačar is Gobbling the Prize Money of the Tour de France. 1 Team Keeps Getting Fined.

Tadej Pogačar has won more than nine teams, one sport director is being naughty, and the race has suffered one high-profile DNF.

That’s the top-line summary of the prize monies, penalties, and abandons of the first block of the Tour de France.

Here’s who’s winning and losing as the Tour takes a rest after 9 stages of unprecedently hot, stupidly fast racing.

Prize money: Pogačar and UAE pillage Tour de France coffers

Pogačar heads into the Tour’s first rest day with a whopper 2:42 GC lead over Jonas Vingegaard. Pogi’s UAE Emirates-XRG teammate Isaac del Toro is in third at 3:27.

ASO awards prize money daily and at the end of the Tour de France for stage placings, classification positions, and miscellaneous mid-race primes.

A total purse of €2,302,800 ($2,364,000 USD) is up for grabs.

With three stage wins, five days in yellow, and leads in the KOM and youth categories, it’s no surprise the UAE supersquad is raking in the prize money.

Pogačar’s team has won €69,980 ($80,000 USD). That’s more than the combined total winnings of the 12 lowest-earning teams.

Pogačar himself has netted just north of €40,000 – more than the nine lowest-earning teams.

Lidl-Trek is up next with €38,570 courtesy of Mads Pedersen’s stage win and time wearing the green points jersey. Visma-Lease a Bike is third with €31,700.

One surprise winner of week 1? Lotto-Intermarché.

The team looked doomed when its sprinter, Arnaud de Lie, abandoned, sick. But the team turned it around with breakaway artist Baptiste Veistroffer and sprint hopeful Huub Artz.

The scrappy Belgian team collected a total of €18,960 from miscellaneous primes and stage placings in the first “week” on Tour.

Lastly, spare a thought for the four teams that have not broken €5k at this Tour de France. That won’t even cover their petrol money.

See full prize money breakdown provided the ASO below – ed

Fines and yellow cards: Staffers keep getting sanctioned

ASO has doled out a total of €359,350 ($411,000 USD) in prize money as of the first rest day. Cycling’s governing body the UCI has clawed €9,850 ($11,000) of that away with fines.

A total of 28 infractions were noted by commissaires through the first nine stages of the race. And it seems that team staff were the baddies. Sport directors and mechanics accounted for 16 of the 28 punishments handed down by the UCI so far.

Of the remaining 12 offenses, eight were committed by riders and four by TV moto drivers in the convoy.

A total of eight yellow cards have been handed down.

Sticky bottles, littering, and illegal vehicle movement in the convoy were the most common themes in jurors’ daily reports.

One thing that’s not been cited by commissaires [yet]? Peeing in water bottles. Maybe the peloton wised-up after Victor Campenaerts made himself the center of “pee-gate” at the Giro d’Italia.

And no, we’ve not had any illegal nipples, either. Mathieu van der Poel was famously fined for showing his chest while on the TT “hotseat” at the Tour de Suisse last month.

Talking of MVDP – his staffers at Alpecin-Premier Tech keep being naughty.

Head DS Christoph Roodhooft owes €1,200 for three different offenses in nine days. He’s also been shown a yellow card. Roodhooft’s colleague Fredrik Willems is close behind with €1,000 for two infractions.

Just as well Van der Poel earned the team at least €11k with his thriller stage 9 win.

DNFs: Former yellow jersey wearer, sprint hopeful, GC aspirant leave in week 1

Eight riders have left the Tour de France early.

The most notable of those were former yellow jersey wearer Torstein Træen (Uno-X Mobility – concussion and fractures) and GC hopeful Cian Uijtdebroeks (Movistar – sickness).

De Lie (Lotto), Clément Berthet (Groupama FDJ), Kelland O’Brien (Jayco AlUla), Alex Molenaar (Caja Rural Saguaros RGA), Bert Van Lerberghe (Soudal Quick-Step), and Arvid de Kleijn (Tudor) are the remaining six who didn’t make the first rest day.

Tour de France prize money after stage 9 (€)