tour d'espagne 1965

1965 Tour de France

52nd edition: june 22 - july 14, 1965, results, stages with running gc, and photos.

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Map of the 1965 Tour de France

Les Woodland's book Dirty Feet: How the great unwashed created the Tour de France is available as an audiobook here .

1965 Tour Quick Facts:

4,177 km ridden at an average speed of 35.89 km/hr. 130 starters with 96 classified finishers,

Winner Gimondi was a last-minute addition to the Salvarani squad which expected their Vittorio Adorni to be the real competitor for victory.

Jacques Anquetil skipped the Tour, arguing that a sixth victory would do nothing to enhance his reputation and bankability.

Gimondi escaped in the third stage, gaining the lead.

Raymond Poulidor predicted his own victory in the stage eighteen Mont Revard timed hill climb, but Gimondi surprised everyone by winning the stage and cementing his Tour win.

Complete Final 1965 Tour de France General Classification:

• Raymond Poulidor (Mercier-BP) @ 2min 40sec
• Gianni Motta (Molteni-Ignis) @ 9min 18sec
• Henry Anglade (Pelforth-Suavage-Lejeune) @ 12min 43sec
• Jean-Claude Lebaube (Ford-France) @ 12min 56sec
• José Pérez-Francés (Ferrys) @ 13min 15sec
• Guide De Rosso (Molteni-Ignis) @ 14min 48sec
• Frans Brands (Flandria-Romeo) @ 17min 36sec
• Jan Janssen (Pelforth-Sauvage-Lejeune) @ 17min 52sec
• Francisco Gabica (KAS-Kaskol) @ 19min 11sec
• Karl-Heinz Kunde (Wiels-Groene-Leeuw) @ 19min 21sec
• Roger Pingeon (Peugeot-BP) @ 20min 32sec
• Valentin Uriona (KAS-Kaskol) @ 24min 34sec
• Henri Duez (Peugeot-BP) @ 25min 7sec
• Renzo Fontona (Molteni-Ignis) @ 25min 31sec
• Gilbert Desmet (Wiels-Groene-Leeuw) @ 28min 4sec
• André Zimmermann (Peugeot-BP) @ 29min 35sec
• André Foucher (Pelforth-Sauvage-Lejeune) @ 29min 53sec
• Arnaldo Pambianco (Salvarani) @ 32min 48sec
• Louis Rostolan (Ford-France) @ 34min 51sec
• Walter Boucquet (Flandria-Romeo) @ 34min 52sec
• Angelino Soler (Peugeot-BP) @ 36min 36sec
• Julio Jiménez (KAS-Kaskol) @ 36min 45sec
• Michael Wright (Wiels-Groene Leeuw) @ 40min 11sec
• Fernando Manzaneque (Ferrys) @ 40min 38sec
• Sebastian Elorza (KAS-Kaskol) @ 42min 0sec
• Gines Garcia (Margnat-Paloma) @ 43min 23sec
• Hans Junkermann (Margnat-Paloma) @ 43min 34sec
• Rik Wouters (Televizier) @ 43min 45sec
• Luis Otano (Ferrys) @ 47min 7sec
• Rik Van Looy (Solo-Superia) @ 47min 29sec
• Hubert Harings (Televizier) @ 47min 30sec
• Jean-Louis Bodin (Mercier-BP) @ 47min 49sec
• José-Antonio Momeme (KAS-Kaskol) @ 46min 1sec
• Michel Van Aerde (Solo-Superia) @ 49min 16sec
• Giuseppe Fezzardi (Molteno-Ignis) @ 50min 5sec
• Joaquin Galera (KAS-Kaskol) @ 50min 55sec
• Raymond Mastrotto (Margnat-Paloma) @ 52min 0sec
• Georges Vandenberghe (Flandria-Romeo) @ 52min 54sec
• Roger Swerts (Mercier) @ 53min 10sec
• Victor Van Schil (Mercier-BP) @ 53min 44sec
• Willy Monty (Pelforth) @ 54min 12sec
• François Mahé (Pelforth) @ 54min 29sec
• Eduardo Castello (Ferrys) @ 54min 49sec
• Auguste Verhaegen (Wiels-Groene Leeuw) @ 56min 11sec
• Juan-José Sagardy (KAS-Kaskol) @ 57min 9sec
• Benoni Beheyt (Wiels-Groene Leeuw) @ 57min 52sec
• Gilbert Desmet (Wiels-Groene Leeuw) @ 58min 8sec
• René Binggeli (Molteni-Ignis) @ 59min 12sec
• Henk Nijdam (Televizier) @ 1hr 2min 2sec
• Bas Maliepaard (Televizier) @ 1hr 2min 42sec
• Johnny Schleck (Pelforth) @ 1hr 4min 17sec
• Carlos Echevarria (KAS) @ 1hr 4min 19sec
• Guido Reybrouck (Flandria-Romeo) @ 1hr 5min 14sec
• Jo De Roo (Televizier) @ 1hr 5min 55sec
• Joseph Planckaert (Solo-Superia) @ 1hr 8min 36sec
• Gerben Karstens (Televizier) @ 1hr 12min 51sec
• Pietro Partesotti (Salvarani) @ 1hr 12min 53sec
• Roland Van De Rijse (Flandria-Romeo) @ 1hr 12min 58sec
• Henri Dewolf (Solo-Superia) @ 1hr 13min 45sec
• Frans Aerenhouts (Mercier-BP) @ 1hr 15min 10sec
• Jacques Bachelot (Margnat-Paloma) @ 1hr 16min 4sec
• Adriano Portaluppi (Molteni-Ignis) @ 1hr 17min 54sec
• Robert Cazala (Mercier-BP) @ 1hr 20min 18sec
• Esteban Martin (Ferrys) @ 1hr 20min 51sec
• Anatole Novak (Ford-France) @ 1hr 22min 8sec
• Cees Lute (Ford-France) @ 1hr 22min 22sec
• Italo Mazzacurati (Salvarani) @ 1hr 23min 33sec
• Joseph Timmermann (Wiels-Groene Leeuw) @ 1hr 24min 45sec
• Gilberto Vendemmiati (Salvarani) @ 1hr 25min 45sec
• Jean Gainche (Mercier-BP) @ 1hr 27min 6sec
• Noël Depauw (Solo-Superia) @ 1hr 27min 49sec
• Adriano Durante (Molteni-Ignis) @ 1hr 28min 5sec
• Remo Stefanoni (Molteni-Ignis) @ 1hr 28min 11sec
• Jean-Pierre Genet (Mercier-BP) @ 1hr 31min 7sec
• Rogelio Hernandez (Ferrys) @ 1hr 31min 39sec
• Jo De Haan (Televizier) @ 1hr 37min 16sec
• Ambrogio Colombo (Molteni-Ignis) @ 1hr 37min 26sec
• Francis Blanc (Salvarani) @ 1hr 40min 43sec
• Guillaume Van Tongerloo (Flandria-Romeo) @ 1hr 41min 28sec
• Yvo Molonaers (Flandria-Romeo) @ 1hr 41min 42sec
• Jean-Claude Lefebvre (Pelforth) @ 1hr 43min 26sec
• Michel Grain (Ford-France) @ 1hr 43min 26sec
• Edgar Sorgeloos (Solo-Superia) @ 1hr 43min 51sec
• Antonio Bertran (Ferrys) @ 1hr 45min 30sec
• Diego Ronchini (Salvarani) @ 1hr 46min 32sec
• Vin Denson (Ford-France) @ 1hr 46min 36sec
• François Le Her (Margnat-Paloma) @ 1hr 48min 48sec
• Giacomo Fornoni (Molteni-Ignis) @ 1hr 49min 12sec
• Leo Van Dongen (Televizier) @ 1hr 49min 28sec
• Mario Minieri (Salvarani) @ 1hr 53min 24sec
• Hubert Ferrer (Pelforth) @ 2hr 3min 47sec
• André Darrigade (Margnat-Paloma) @ 2hr 14min 18sec
• Jean Lilesi (Margnat-Paloma) @ 2hr 22min 38sec
• Raul Rey (Ferrys) @ 2hr 23min 37sec
• Joseph Groussard (Pelforth) @ 2hr 37min 38sec

Climbers' Competition:

• Frans Brands (Flandria-Romeo): 73
• Joaquin Galera (KAS-Kaskol): 68
• Felice Gimondi (Salvarani): 55
• Raymond Poulidor (Mercier-BP): 50
• Henry Anglade (Pelforth): 47
• Gianni Motta (Molteni-Ignis): 44
• José Perez-Frances (Ferrys): 43
• Rik Van Looy (Solo-Superia): 30
• Francisco Gabica (KAS-Kaskol): 25

Points Competition:

• Guido Reybrouck (Flandria-Romeo): 130
• Felice Gimondi (Salvarani): 124
• Rik Van Looy (Solo-Superia): 109
• Michael Wright (Wiels-Groene Leeuw): 98
• Georges Vandenberghe (Flandria-Romeo): 94
• Benoni Beheyt (Wiels-Groene Leeuw): 85
• Frans Brands (Flandria-Romeo), Julio Jiménez (KAS-Kaskol), Gianni Motta (Molteni-Ignis): 84

Team Classification:

• KAS-Kaskol: 349hr 29min 19sec
• Pelforth @ 16min 8sec
• Molteni-Ignis @ 16min 35sec
• Peugeot-BP @ 21min 36sec
• Wiels-Groene Leeuw @ 36min 3sec
• Salvarani @ 38min 17sec
• Ferrys @ 46min 51sec
• Mercier-BP @ 50min 21sec
• Televizier @ 54min 51sec
• Ford-France @ 1hr 3min 52sec
• Flandria-Romeo @ 1hr 10min 43sec
• Solo-Superia @ 1hr 17min 8sec
• Margnat-Paloma @ 1hr 31min 9sec

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Stage results with running GC:

Stage 1A: Tuesday, June 22, Cologne - Liège, 149 km

• Rik Van Looy: 4hr 6min 49sec
• Georges Vandenberghe s.t.
• Edward Sels s.t.
• Jo De Roo s.t.
• Bernard Vanderkerkhove s.t.
• Benoni Beheyt s.t.
• Gianni Motta s.t.
• Julien Haelterman s.t.
• Guido Reybrouck s.t.
• Jan Janssen s.t.

GC after Stage 1A:

• Rik Van Looy: 4hr 5min 49sec
• Georges Vandenberghe @ 30sec
• Edward Sels @ 1min
• Joo De Roo s.t.
• Bernard Venderkerkhove s.t.

Stage 1B: Tuesday, June 22, Liège 22.5 km Team Time Trial.

Times of each team's first three riders were added together to calculate times. Each rider's time was added to his individual GC.

• Ford-France 1hr 28min 12sec
• Peugeot-BP @ 3sec
• Solo-Superia @ 18sec
• Pelfort-Sauvage-Lejeune @ 42sec
• Televizier @ 57sec
• Salvarani @ 1min 27sec
• Mercier-BP @ 1min 33sec
• Wiel's-Groene-Leeuw @ 2min 12sec
• Margnat-Paloma @ 3min 15sec
• Flandria-Romeo @ 5min
• Ferry @ 6min 24sec
• Molteni-Ignis @ 6min 54sec
• KAS-Kaskol @ 9min

GC after Stage 1B:

• Rik Van Looy: 4hr 35min 19sec
• Arie Den Hartog @ 54sec
• Lucien Aimar s.t.
• Louis Rostollon s.t.
• Anatole Novak s.t.
• Jean-Claude Lebaube s.t.
• Pierre Martin s.t.
• Michel Grain s.t.
• Pierre Everaert s.t.
• Tom Simpson @ 55sec

Stage 2: Wednesday, June 23, Liège - Roubaix, 200.5 km

• Bernard Vanderkerkhove: 5hr 27min 45sec
• Felice Gimondi s.t.
• Victor Van Schil s.t.
• Guido Reybrouck @ 14sec
• Vittorio Adorni s.t.
• Julien Stevens s.t.
• Walter Boucquet s.t.
• Rik Wouters s.t.
• Arie Den Hartog s.t.

GC after Stage 2:

• Bernard Vanderkerkhove: 10hr 3min 4sec
• Felice Gimondi @ 53sec
• Arie Den Hartog @ 1min 8sec
• Julien Stevens @ 1min 14sec
• Rik Van Looy @ 1min 19sec
• Jan Janssen @ 1min 22sec
• Cees Haast @ 1mn 27sec
• Vittorio Adorni @ 1min 37sec
• Gilbert Desmet @ 1min 52sec
• Lucien Aimar @ 2min 13sec

Stage 3: Thursday, June 24, Roubaix - Rouen, 240 km

• Felice Gimondi: 7hr 6min
• Michael Wright @ 2sec
• Walter Boucquet @ 5sec
• Cees Haast s.t.
• André Darrigade s.t.
• Roger Pigeon @ 7sec
• Rogelio Hernandez @ 7sec
• Valentin Uriona @ 9sec
• Ferdi Bracke s.t.

GC after Stage 3:

• Felice Gimondi: 17hr 9min 15sec
• Bernard Vanderkerkhove @ 39sec
• Cees Haast @ 1min 39sec
• Arie Den Hartog @ 1min 47sec
• Julien Stevens @ 1min 53sec
• Rik Van Looy @ 1min 58sec
• Jan Janssen @ 2min 1sec
• Vittorio Adorni @ 2min 16sec
• Roger Pingeon @ 2min 28sec
• Gilbert Desmet @ 2min 31sec

Stage 4: Friday, June 25, Caen - St. Brieuc, 227 km

• Edgar Sorgeloos: 6hr 24min 33sec
• Cees Lute s.t.
• Willy Monty s.t.
• Henk Nijdam s.t.
• Tom Simpson @ 33sec

GC after Stage 4:

• Felice Gimondi: 23hr 34min 21sec
• Edgar Sorgeloos @ 1min 25sec
• Willy Monty @ 2min 6se

Stage 5A: Saturday, June 26, St. Brieuc - Chateaulin, 147 km.

• Cees Van Espen: 3hr 35min 39sec
• Leo Van Dongen @ 39sec
• Michel Van Aerde @ 50sec
• Frans Brands s.t.
• Henk Nijdam @ 1min 56sec
• August Verhaegen @ 2min 9sec
• Gerben Karstens s.t.

GC after Stage 5A:

• Felice Gimondi: 27hr 12min 9sec
• Cees Van Espen @ 23sec
• Bernard Vanderkerkove @ 39sec
• Pierre Everaert @ 1min 33sec
• Michel Van Aerde @ 1min 39sec

Stage 5B: Saturday, June 26, Chateaulin 26.7 km Individual Time Trial

• Raymond Poulidor: 37min 43sec
• Felice Gimondi @ 7sec
• Gianni Motta @ 19sec
• Ferdi Bracke @ 24sec
• Vittorio Adorni @ 30sec
• Valentin Uriona @ 1min 1sec
• Francisco Gabica @ 1min 15sec
• Willy Planckaert @ 1min 17sec
• Antonio Gomez del Moral @ 1min 20sec
• Guido De Rosso @ 1min 22sec

GC after stage 5B:

• Felice Gimondi: 27hr 49min 49sec
• Bernard Vanderkerkhove @ 2min 20sec
• Vittorio Adorni @ 2min 49sec
• Ferdi Bracke @ 2min 57sec
• Raymond Poulidor @ 3min 6sec
• Cees Van Espen @ 3min 21sec
• Jan Janssen @ 3min 29sec
• Julien Stevens @ 3min 32sec
• Cees Haast @ 3min 49sec

Stage 6: Sunday, June 27, Quimper - Le Baule, 210.5 km

• Guido Reybrouck: 4hr 51min 19sec
• Roger Swerts s.t.
• Adriano Durante s.t.
• Leo Van Dongen s.t.
• Edward Sels (times were taken at velodrome entrance where Sels arrived 4 seconds ahead of pack)
• Rik Van Looy s.t.

GC after Stage 6:

• Felice Gimondi: 32hr 41min 8sec
• Cees Haast @ 3min 48sec

Stage 7: Monday, June 28, Le Baule - La Rochelle, 219 km

• Edward Sels: 5hr 4min 47sec
• Gustaaf Desmet s.t.
• Rolf Wolfshohl s.t.
• Gilbert Desmet s.t.
• Cees Van Espen s.t.
• Luis Otano s.t.
• Jean-Claude Lefebvre s.t.
• Sebstian Elorza s.t.
• Gerben Karstens @ 2min 43sec

GC after Stage 7:

• Bernard Vanderkerkhove: 37hr 48min 15sec
• Cees Van Espen @ 1min 1sec
• Gilbert Desmet @ 1min 56sec
• Felice Gimondi @ 2min 10sec
• Rolf Wolfshohl @ 3min 4sec
• Luis Otano @ 4min 58sec
• Vittorio Adorni @ 4min 59sec
• Ferdi Bracke @ 5min 7sec
• Raymond Poulidor @ 5min 16sec
• Gustaaf Desmet @ 5min 25sec

Stage 8: Tuesday, June 29, La Rochelle - Bordeaux, 197.5 km

Times were taken at the entrence to the velodrome where the stage ended.

• Jo De Roo: 4hr 56min 14sec
• Roger Pingeon s.t.
• Julien Haelterman @ 54sec
• Han Janssen @ 59sec
• Jo De Haan s.t.
• Henk Nijdam @ 54sec
• Willy Bocklandt @ 59sec
• Tom Simpson @ 54sec

GC after Stage 8:

• Bernard Vanderkerkhove: 42hr 45min 28sec
• Felice Gimondi @ 2min 5sec
• Roger Pingeon @ 4min 51sec

Stage 9: Wednesday, June 30, Dax - Bagnères de Bigorre, 226.5 km

• Julio Jiménez: 6hr 49min 19sec
• André Foucher @ 2min 48sec
• Gianni Motta @ 3min
• André Zimmermann s.t.
• Felice Gimondi @ 4min 5sec
• Guido De Rosso s.t.
• Esteban Martin @ 4min 6sec
• Raymond Poulidor s.t.
• Tom Simpson @ 4min 40sec

GC after Stage 9:

• Felice Gimondi: 49hr 40min 57sec
• Raymond Poulidor @ 3min 12sec
• André Foucher @ 4min 23sec
• Gianni Motta @ 4min32sec
• Cees Haast @ 6min 28sec
• Tom Simpson @ 6min 39sec
• Guido De Rosso @ 6min 40sec
• Karl-Heinz Kunde @ 6min 55sec
• André Zimmermann @ 7min 21sec

Stage 10: Thursday, July 1, Bagnères de Bigorre - Ax les Thermes, 222.5 km

• Guido Reybrouck: 6hr 44min 18sec
• August Verhaegen @ 3sec
• Arnoldo Pambianco @ 4sec
• Eduardo Castello @ 1min
• Cees Haast @ 1min 11sec
• Fernando Manzaneque @ 1min 12sec
• Juan-José Sagarduy @ 2min 30sec

GC after Stage 10:

• Felice Gimondi: 56hr 27min 45sec
• Gianni Motta @ 4min 32sec
• Cees Haast @ 5min 9sec
• Rik Van Looy @ 5min 41sec

Stage 11: Friday, July 2, Ax les Thermes - Barcelona, 240.5 km

• José Pérez-Francés: 6hr 55min 59sec
• Georges Vandenberghe @ 4min 23sec
• Victor Van Schil @ 4min 35sec
• Joaquin Galera @ 4min 37sec
• Francisco Gabica @ 4min 45sec

GC after stage 11:

• Felice Gimondi: 63hr 28min 32sec
• Jean-Claude Lebaube @ 4min 55sec
• José Pérez-Francés @ 5min 14sec
• Cees Haast @ 5min 41sec
• Guide De Rosso @ 6min 40sec

Stage 12: Sunday, July 4, Barcelona - Perpignan, 219 km

• Jan Janssen: 6hr 7min 52sec
• Angelino Soler s.t.
• Carlos Echevarria s.t.
• Valentin Uriona s.t.
• Désiré Letort s.t.
• Georges Vandenberghe @ 32sec

GC after stage 12:

• Felice Gimondi: 73hr 43min 15sec
• Jean-Claude Lebaube @ 3min 10sec
• Cees Haast @ 3min 56sec

Stage 13: Monday, July 5, Perpignan - Montpellier, 164 km

• Adriano Durante: 4hr 4min 34sec
• Michael Wright s.t.
• Henri De Wolf s.t.
• Johnny Schleck s.t.

GC after stage 13:

Stage 14: Tuesday, July 6, Montpellier - Mont Ventoux, 173 km

• Raymond Poulidor: 5hr 47min 31sec
• Julio Jiménez @ 6sec
• Henry Anglade @ 1min 29sec
• Felice Gimondi @ 1min 38sec
• Joaquin Galera @ 1min 43sec
• Guido De Rosso @ 1min 50sec
• Jean-Claude Lebaube @ 1min 55sec
• Jan Janssen @ 2min 13sec
• Tom Simpson s.t.
• José Pérez-Francés @ 3min 14sec

GC after Stage 14:

• Felice Gimondi: 79hr 32min 24sec
• Raymond Poulidor @ 34sec
• Jean-Claude Lebaube @ 3min 27sec
• José Pérez-Francés @ 6min 50sec
• Guido De Rosso @ 6min 52sec
• André Foucher @ 6min 58sec
• Cees Haast @ 7min 6sec
• Gianni Motta @ 7min 10sec
• Tom Simpson @ 7min 14sec
• Jan Janssen @ 7min 35sec

Stage 15: Wednesday, July 7, Carpentras - Gap, 167.5 km

• Giuseppe Fizzardi: 4hr 37min 57sec
• August Verhaegen @ 35sec
• Raymond Mastrotto @ 38sec
• José-Antonio Momene @ 2min 10sec
• Leo Van Dongen @ 2min 14sec
• Jan Janssen @ 3min 16sec

GC after stage 15:

• Felice Gimondi: 84hr 13min 37sec

Stage 16: Thursday, July 8, Gap - Briançon, 177 km

• Joaquin Galera: 5hr 46min 32sec
• Gianni Motta @ 45sec
• Felice Gimondi @ 1min 1sec
• Julio Jiménez @ 1min 4sec
• Frans Brands @ 1min 6sec
• Karl-Heinz Kunde s.t.
• Henry Anglade s.t.

GC after Stage 16:

• Felice Gimondi: 90hr 1min 10sec
• Raymond Poulidor @ 39sec
• Jean-Claude Lebaube @ 4min 25sec
• Gianni Motta @ 6min 24sec
• Guido De Rosso @ 6min 57sec
• Cees Haast @ 7min 11sec
• José Pérez-Francés @ 7min 35sec
• Henry Anglade @ 8min 33sec
• André Foucher @ 8min 40sec
• Jan Janssen @ 11min 14sec

Stage 17: Friday, July 9, Briançon - Aix les Bains, 193.5 km

• Julio Jiménez: 5hr 43min 13sec
• Frans Brands @ 1min 39sec
• Joaquin Galera @ 1min 40sec
• Gines Garcia @ 4min 3sec
• Karl-Heinz Kunde @ 4min 5sec
• Jan Janssen @ 4min 45sec
• Juan-José Sagarduy s.t.

GC after Stage 17:

• Felice Gimondi: 95hr 49min 8sec
• André Foucher @ 10min 59sec
• Frans Brands @ 11min 6sec
• Karl-Heinz Kunde @ 11min 8sec

Stage 18: Saturday, July 10, Aix les Bains - Mont Revard 26.9 km Individual Timed Hill Climb

• Felice Gimondi: 59min 50sec
• Raymond Poulidor @ 23sec
• Roger Pingeon @ 1min 40sec
• Henry Anglade @ 1min 45sec
• Gianni Motta @ 1min 54sec
• Francisco Gabica @ 2min 21sec
• José Pérez-Francés @ 2min 31sec
• Victor Van Schil @ 2mn 56sec
• Henri Duez @ 2min 58sec
• Gines Garcia @ 3min 22sec

GC after Stage 18:

• Felice Gimondi: 96hr 48min 38sec
• Raymond Poulidor @ 1min 12sec
• Gianni Motta @ 8min 38sec
• Jean-Claude Lebaube @ 9mn 59sec
• José Pérez-Francés @ 10min 26sec
• Henry Anglade @ 10min 39sec
• Guido De Rosso @ 12min 9sec
• Karl-Heinz Kuinde @ 14min 59sec
• Jan Janssen @ 15min 1sec
• Frans Brands @ 15min 22sec

Stage 19: Sunday, July 11, Aix les Bains - Lyon

• Rik Van Looy: 4hr 1min 37sec
• Bas Maliepaard s.t.
• René Binggeli s.t.
• Sebastian Elorza s.t.
• Gerben Karstens @ 4min 59sec

GC after Stage 19:

• Felice Gimondi: 100hr 55min 14sec
• Jean-Claude Lebaube @ 9min 59sec
• Karl-Heinz Kunde @ 14min 59sec
• Frans Brands @ 15min22sec

Stage 20: Monday, July 12, Lyon - Auxerre, 298.5 km

• Michael Wright: 8hr 42min 3sec
• Michel Grain @ 2sec
• Henk Nijdam @ 18sec
• Jean Milesi @ 24sec
• Jan Janssen @ 45sec
• Jacques Bachelot s.t.

GC after Stage 20:

• Felice Gimondi: 109hr 38min 2sec
• Jan-Claude Lebaube @ 9min 59sec

Stage 21: Tuesday, July 13, Auxerre - Versailles, 225.5 km

• Gerben Karstens: 6hr 12min 42sec
• Rik Van Looy @ 45sec
• Geroges Vandenberghe s.t.

GC after Stage 21

• Felice Gimondi: 115hr 51min 29sec

Stage 22 (Final Stage): Wednesday, July 14, Versailles - Paris 37.8 km Individual Time Trial

• Felice Gimondi: 50min 57sec
• Gianni Motta @ 30sec
• Raymond Poulidor @ 1min 8sec
• Walter Boucquet @ 1min 19sec
• Henry Anglade @ 1min 44sec
• Frans Brands @ 1min 54sec
• Ronchini Ronchini @ 1min 58sec
• Luis Otano @ 2min 3sec
• Francisco Gabica @ 2min 5sec
• Roger Pingeon @ 2min 16sec

Complete Final 1965 Tour de France General Classification

Photos from the 1965 Tour de France:

Stage 9: Motta Poulidor and Gimondi on the Tourmalet

Stage 14: Poulidor & Jimenez on Mt. Ventoux

Stage 16: Gimondi on the Izoard

Oral history. In February 2005, 1965 Tour winner Felice Gimondi sat down with Valeria Paoletti and discussed the 1965 Tour in detail.

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Vuelta a Espana 1965

The 20th Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 29 April to 16 May 1965. It consisted of 18 stages covering a total of 3,410 km (2,120 mi), and was won by Rolf Wolfshohl of the Mercier cycling team. Julio Jimenez won the mountains classification while Rik Van Looy won the points classification.

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When the 1965 Ford Mustang Won the Tour de France Automobile

Martyn Goddard Photographer Dale Drinnon Writer Oct 16, 2014

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A half-century ago, the Ford Mustang went to Europe and claimed its first ever motorsport victory, in the Tour de France. And the French have never really let it leave.

'65 Mustang — Reims-Gueux

There wasn't a soul on the public highway dividing the grandstands from the pits at the old Reims road circuit when I pulled our 1965 Ford Mustang to a stop along the pit-side shoulder. Before I'd even switched off the ignition, the first excited passers-by on that highway had already spotted the tidy blue notchback, swerved to an abrupt halt up ahead, and scurried back with their camera phones primed and ready. It was a routine that would rapidly become very familiar.

The simple fact is the French, and not just French car enthusiasts, absolutely love Ford Mustangs. Mustang lust strikes as many different kinds of people in France as it does back home in the States, and for as many different reasons. One episode in particular vaulted Ford's groundbreaking ponycar into the complete, collective French consciousness, and it started here at Reims, in northern France, in September 1964, when the brand-new Mustang took on the country's biggest motorsport event, the Tour de France Automobile.

The TdF Automobile genuinely was big, in every respect. Founded in 1899, four years before the famous bicycle version, it covered more time and distance than the Mille Miglia, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, or the Rallye Monte Carlo, and had equal if not greater international status. As the name implies, the format involved a driving tour of France, in which competitors stopped to race at each of the major circuits, filling the miles between with kamikaze mountain climbs and forest road sprints. Precise timing was applied even to the transit runs linking the speed sections (which is probably why some accounts describe it solely as a rally). Overall event winners were decided on aggregate results—more than half the field typically didn't finish.

The 1964 Tour, encompassing 10 days and close to 4000 miles, would be epic, the last of the bare-knuckled manufacturers' battles before the complications of safety and money saw the event progressively downsized to extinction. Ford, pursuing its gutsy worldwide Total Performance policy, was spoiling for the fight. Based on pure potential, its Cobra Daytona coupes had an honest chance of dislodging seven-time winner Ferrari in the GT category. (Alas, they didn't. All three Cobras DNF'd, and Ferrari GTOs finished 1-2.)

It was the Mustang's first major-league racing victory, and it became a French PR gold mine for Ford.

However, the Touring category, where everything that wasn't a two-seater raced, looked to be a long shot. The dominant Jaguars had won five years in a row, and the same crew that had claimed the last four victories would drive the factory-backed lead car. Ford's primary weapon against Jaguar was the Mustang, which had been introduced not quite five months before and with no racing credentials whatsoever.

Above: Haute Wheels: In 2014, we cruise along the pit straight at the Reims circuit, scene of past Mustang glory, in a 1965 coupe owned by French Mustang fanatic Nicolas Blanche.

Ford wasn't completely clueless, though. The four red Mustang coupes shipped from Detroit for the event were prepped by Alan Mann Racing, a British firm that had become an official Ford factory team, with an emphasis on rallying the Falcon Sprint. The Sprint was already more or less a proto-Mustang, sharing the same platform. As with the Falcon, Mann beefed up the Mustangs' running gear, brakes, and electrics and tossed the 260-cubic-inch V-8s in favor of race-ready 289 engines, reputedly worth 285 hp, purpose-built by Holman & Moody. Mann entered three of the Mustangs in the TdF, holding the fourth in reserve for parts.

Kickoff that year was a one-hour blast on the Reims circuit, established in 1926 on public roads. Also known as the Circuit de Reims-Gueux, because some earlier track configurations nipped into the village of Gueux, Reims by 1964 was pure car killer. The narrow, 5-mile track was basically triangular, composed of two endless, flat-out straightaways and one virtually flat-out stretch of sweepers, linked by three crawling-speed turns, with no barriers anywhere. Launching your virgin race car there was surely mechanical trial by fire.

The Mustangs barely broke a sweat. They romped home 1-2-3, showing the Touring field nothing but tire smoke and taillights. Then, as if to prove it was more than a matter of brute American horsepower, they went to the fast, winding Rouen hill circuit and did the same.

Above: Pony Pride: Brits Andrew Cowan (left) and Peter Procter with the winning car.

All told, Mustangs won 13 of the 17 speed stages and took first and second in the TdF final Touring results, eighth and ninth overall, with Brits Peter Procter and Andrew Cowan co-driving the frontrunner. The third Mann car might have handed Ford a clean sweep, had it not been disqualified, allegedly for unauthorized help with a battery problem; instead, third place was Jaguar's consolation prize.

It was the Mustang's first major-league racing victory, and it became a French PR gold mine for Ford. Mustangs were instantly cool, and in that circular logic of coolness reinforcing coolness, French pop culture fell for Mustangs because Mustangs were cool, and Mustangs were cool because French pop culture fell for them. Not that the French really needed a push; they were eminently ready to jump. Forget the xenophobic prattle we've all heard; most French people are actually quite enamored of things American—which likely has something to do with two centuries of shared national founding principles.

French pop culture was already sweet on Mustangs before the '64 TdF sealed the romance. The car's global cinematic debut was in the French comedy "Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez," three days before the Reims win, and a week in advance of a Mustang appearance in the possibly better-known "Goldfinger." Far more influential, however, was the 1966 art-house classic, "Un Homme et Une Femme" ("A Man and a Woman"), which some call the greatest Mustang movie ever, starring not one, but three Mustangs, plus a GT40. Oh, and some French dude playing a racing driver. And a woman.

Above: Mustangs clip an apex at another 1964 Tour de France track.

Music naturally contributed as well. Johnny Hallyday, in addition to being France's favorite '60s rock star and media idol, was also its favorite Mustang owner, and with a little encouragement from Ford France, rallied one on the Monte. That definitive dirty bad boy, Serge Gainsbourg, recorded " Ford Mustang ," either paying homage to American society or ripping it to shreds; with Serge, it was always hard to tell. Either way, the MOOSE-taahng , as the Francophone world delightfully knows it, rapidly came to mean something, and whatever that was, the French liked it, and wanted some. Unfortunately, French Mustang fans have had to largely rely on the gray market. The 2015 Ford Mustang , however, will be the first officially offered through European Ford dealers since 1979.

Nicolas Blanche, owner of the 1965 notchback we've brought to Reims-Gueux, saw his first Mustang, a '66 fastback, at age 10 and bought this one five years ago from the couple who imported it in 2007. He's never had other special interest cars, never wanted any, only the Mustang. "I waited a long time," he says, and laughs, "Why settle for anything but the best?"

Blanche uses the car a lot, driving it to Mustang Club of France gatherings all over the country. He picked a good example for the purpose. In my faraway youth it would have been considered the perfect daily driver: a 289 automatic, with the deluxe Pony Interior, power steering, and air conditioning. It's box-standard, retaining the non-assisted drum brakes. After coming over from America, it had a thorough going-through by Fred Mustang Garage near Reims, and it's never let him down. Blanche says he cruises easily on the French autoroute (speed limit: 81), and he's won club show trophies, too.

Driving it on the remnants of the old track is a stark reminder of how much the whole world has changed since 1964. Technically, none of the original circuit remains except the main-straight grandstand, the pits opposite, and some associated structures, now under restoration by local volunteers (see below). The racing surface, as a public thoroughfare, has obviously been re-laid and widened many times, the corners have been re-contoured, and the longest straightaway is now four lanes.

If the details of the track have changed, its character hasn't, and all you need to grasp the concept of insanely fast, headlong charges into gut-busting right-handers is one strong launch from the head of the grandstand stretch. The hairpin there is gone, but the café where diners once watched the racing over lunch still remains, and so does the gentle slope running down to the stands.

A powerful car will be truly screaming along before the first seats; the Mann Mustangs could nudge 150 mph, and on the downhill toward the start-finish line, probably bettered it, with nothing but luck separating them from the busy pit lane.

Hold on tight after that, because even fast road cars get light over the following brow, and then you hope the brakes can scrub enough speed for yet another hairpin. The Mustangs' disc brake conversions probably didn't stop a whole lot better than drums and took just as much grunt to do it—they simply lasted awhile longer. Kick it through the corner, and start rushing toward 150 mph again, praying now that if you go off in these high-speed sweepers, you won't collect one of the concrete flag stations or route markers you can still see in the weeds beside the ditches lining the road.

I backed off about 200 yards after the café, put my elbow up on the door, and just listened to the lovely V-8 rumble. If I'd been here in 1964, I think I'd have been watching the action over a nice, long lunch in that café.

Les Amis of the Circuit Reims-Gueux

For 10 years, a group of French enthusiasts have fought the good fight, to save a piece of motor racing history for us all.

Grand Prix drivers of the pre-sponsorship era loved Reims-Gueux. It was fast and deadly, but the nearby city of Reims is the capital of the rich Champagne industry, and oceans of the stuff, and ample cash to match, were awarded for lap records, poles, and the like. For nearly half of the 20th century, it saw some of the finest pilots and the finest races, in not only GP, but sports cars and bikes as well.

In 1972, however, the lights went out forever, and slowly the place began returning to the dust. By 2004, only the pit straightaway building complex was left, and that was crumbling fast. That's when the all-volunteer, self-funding Friends of the Circuit Gueux was formed, and today the complex is a protected heritage site, safe from predation, preservation is in progress, and non-speed events are held on the site .

Special thanks to Mustang fan and French translator Fabien Daniel;the Mustang Club of France; andFred Mustang Garage.

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Classement par points - 12 mai 1970, classement de la montagne - 12 mai 1970, prologue - cadiz 6km - 23 avril 1970, 1ère étape - cadiz - jerez de la frontera 170km - 24 avril 1970, 2ème étape - jerez de la frontera - fuengirola 217km - 25 avril 1970, 3ème étape - fuengirola - almeria 249km - 26 avril 1970, 4ème étape - almeria - lorca 161km - 27 avril 1970, 5ème étape - lorca - calpe 209km - 28 avril 1970, 6ème étape - calpe - burriana 198km - 29 avril 1970, 7ème étape - burriana - tarragona 201km - 30 avril 1970, etape 8a - tarragona - barcelona 100km - 1er mai 1970, etape 8b - barcelona - montjuich 48km - 1er mai 1970, 9ème étape - barcelona - igualada 189km - 2 mai 1970, 10ème étape - igualada - zaragoza 237km - 3 mai 1970, 11ème étape - zaragoza - calatayud 118km - 4 mai 1970, 12ème étape - calatayud - madrid 204km - 5 mai 1970, 13ème étape - madrid - soria 221km - 6 mai 1970, 14ème étape - soria - valladolid 238km - 7 mai 1970, 15ème étape - valladolid - burgos 134km - 8 mai 1970, 16ème étape - burgos - santander 179km - 9 mai 1970, 17ème étape - santander - vitoria 191km - 10 mai 1970, 18ème étape - vitoria - san sebastian 157km - 11 mai 1970, etape 19a - san sebastian - llodio 104km - 12 mai 1970, etape 19b - llodio - bilbao 29km - 12 mai 1970, tour d'espagne - archives.

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Invincible, voilà un des nombreux mots pouvant qualifier le Bayer Leverkusen cette saison. En plus d’avoir réussi la prouesse de mettre fin à l’hégémonie du Bayern Munich en étant titré champion d’Allemagne, les hommes de Xabi Alonso sont restés invaincus en Bundesliga, après un dernier succès ce samedi 18 mai contre Augsbourg (2-1).

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Sacré champion de Bundesliga pour la première fois de son histoire, le Bayer Leverkusen peut encore faire mieux. Avec deux finales à disputer en Ligue Europa contre l’Atalanta Bergame (le 22 mai), et en Coupe d’Allemagne face à Kaiserslautern (le 25 mai), les coéquipiers de Florian Wirtz peuvent réaliser un triplé historique, et être invaincus toutes compétitions confondues.

Un tel exploit leur permettrait d’atteindre les 53 matchs consécutifs sans défaite toutes compétitions confondues. Un record déjà battu par les Allemands lors du match nul 2-2 arraché à la dernière seconde contre l’AS Rome le 9 mai, appartenant auparavant à Benfica , qui avait enchaîné 48 rencontres sans perdre de décembre 1963 à février 1965.

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