The UCI regulates the Tour de France, imposing penalties for riders who violate the foundations for street racing, with fines and the lack of UCI factors for something from driving and not using a helmet to getting right into a fistfight.
In 2025, the UCI will impose a ‘yellow card’ system for repeat offenders to discourage riders from purposely breaking guidelines and simply taking the punishment. Two or extra infractions will result in riders being ejected from the race and suspended for every week, three will get a two-week ban from racing and if riders get six in a 12 months, they are often suspended for 30 days.
The fines and yellow playing cards can even apply to anybody on the race, together with media bike drivers and group employees, too.
Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was fined and docked 13 factors towards the inexperienced jersey classification on stage 6 for deviating from his line within the dash into Dijon, whereas Astana acquired 4 separate fines for serving to Mark Cavendish get again after a mechanical late within the stage.
Here’s a full listing of the fines and punishments for every stage of the 2024 Tour de France.
Stage 2
- Christoph Roodhooft (Alpecin-Deceuninck DS) – Breach of rules concerning car motion in the course of the race (km 14) – 500CHF*
- Gianni Meersman (Alpecin-Deceuninck DS) – Failure to respect directions of commissaires – 200CHF*
- Raul Garcia (Arkéa-B&B Accommodations) – Inappropriate behaviour – 200CHF
Stage 5
- Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) relegated for deviation from dash line – 500CHF*, -13 factors in factors classification
- Jarrad Drizners (Lotto Dstny) inappropriate behaviour – 200CHF
- Davide Ballerini (Astana Qazaqstan) inappropriate behaviour – 200CHF
Stage 6:
- Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) – sheltering within the slipstream of a car – 200CHF*, 40 second penalty, 15 UCI factors, -10 factors in factors classification
- Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan) – sheltering within the slipstream of a car – 200CHF*, 20 second penalty, 15 UCI factors, -10 factors in factors classification
- Dmitriy Fofonov (Astana directeur sportif) – 500CHF* for the above and 500CHF* for disposing of waste exterior waste zone
- Mario Aerts (Astana DS) – 500CHF* for disposing of waste exterior waste zone
- Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) relegated for deviation from dash line – 500CHF*, -13 factors in factors classification
