5020 x 3346 px | 42,5 x 28,3 cm | 16,7 x 11,2 inches | 300dpi
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After a long transfer and rest day in Grenoble, the race heads into the Alps with the usual excitement and expectation swirling through the peloton. With almost 100km of flat roads preceding the first of two Cat. 1 climbs (the picturesque Cormetde-Roselend), there was plenty of time to contemplate the task ahead, particularly the long (22km) haul to the 6561-foot summit finish at Courchevel. In this picture you see the Devil giving encouragment to the riders climbing Courchevel. Didi Senft (born 1952 in Germany) is known as the Tour de France devil or El Diablo. Since 1993, he has been seen in the Tour's many stages wearing his red devil costume and painting a trifork on the road some miles before he'll show up. Senft attributes the inspiration for the costume to German cycling announcers who called the last lap of local criterium races, "the Red Devil's Lap."
