{"id":193789,"date":"2023-08-25T12:46:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T12:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=193789"},"modified":"2023-08-25T12:47:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T12:47:49","slug":"the-car-boys-that-keep-the-la-vuelta-espana-skoda-fleet-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2023\/08\/25\/the-car-boys-that-keep-the-la-vuelta-espana-skoda-fleet-going\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Car Boys&#8221; that Keep the La Vuelta Espa\u00f1a \u0160koda Fleet Going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Just seconds before the first stage of La Vuelta Espa\u00f1a, thousands of people feel butterflies in their stomach. But among all the fans, spectators, punters, and even participants, there are two whose attention stands out: race director Javier Guill\u00e9n and a man whose eyes remain fixed on the Velvet Red Leading car. &#8220;It is the same every year, no matter how careful we are, I always get nervous asking myself if either of the cars will run properly,&#8221; says Petr Ku\u010dera, the man responsible for all the \u0160koda cars in the peloton of the famous Vuelta.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His team looks after the cars at all \u0160koda events, ranging from the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship and motor shows to cycling events like the Tour de France and the Vuelta. They call themselves the Car Boys, a crew that can do the seemingly impossible: changing the livery of a fleet of more than one-hundred cars within a few days, or catching up to repair a badly damaged car overnight, a task that would employ an average garage for a week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does it take to prepare all the \u0160koda cars and make them ready for the Vuelta? To answer that question, we must go back in time, since preparations begin right after the Tour de France is over. The fleet of director Enyaq cars is summoned to Mlada Boleslav, the hometown of \u0160koda, where the Car Boys crew, in cooperation with the organising agency Unipublic, choose the cars that will go to the Vuelta.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_193793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193793\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-4.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-193793 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-4.webp\" alt=\"\u0160koda Enyaq\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-4.webp 990w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-4-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-4-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-4-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-4-272x182.webp 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-193793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The brilliant Velvet Red Leading Car, with its distinctive add-ons and custom decals, is like a mobile beacon of order in the tumult that is the famed Spanish Grand Tour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-193789 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-2.webp'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-2.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\u0160koda Enyaq\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-2.webp 990w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-2-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-2-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-2-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-2-272x182.webp 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-3.webp'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-3.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-3.webp 990w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-3-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-3-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-3-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/Enyaq-2023-Vuelta-3-272x182.webp 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mechanics then pore over each car meticulously, keeping an eye on every detail, never missing even the tiniest screw. Time is running fast of course, reminding everyone that the Vuelta is getting nearer, though the Cars Boysnever slacken in their effort to change every worn part for a new one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The velvet red cars get priority, but close behind them, the service team pays attention to each of the rest. Despite the time pressures, the maintenance runs both thoroughly and conscientiously. In only three weeks, the mechanics need to recover every car from their previous shift on the French Tour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a spacious hall, we can see the the Leading \u0160koda Enyaq, which served Frenchman Christian Prudhomme well, and soon will host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2022\/08\/26\/the-leading-car-of-la-vuelta-a-espana-as-seen-by-race-director-javier-guillen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vuelta boss Javier Guill\u00e9n.<\/a> Another red Enyaq is being prepared for the race&#8217;s chief commissaire, while a third will travel with the peloton as a show car for \u0160koda\u2019s static presentation. Then, there are a dozen \u0160koda Superb iVs wearing velvet red coats, followed by other cars in the fleet. &#8220;We are restoring 97 cars all together for the next event. Some of them require only simple maintenance, yet others ask for more,\u201d Ku\u010dera says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How much wear and tear did nearly 3,500 kilometres in three weeks put on each car following cyclists stage by stage? According to Ku\u010dera, the rate of damage suffered during the Tour de France or the Vuelta depends mostly on theweather. &#8220;When it pours, the number of accidents increases,&#8221; he says, adding that this year&#8217;s Tour was one of the luckier years. As usual, several oil pans, bumpers and side mirrors were damaged or destroyed, yet the worst harm was suffered by one of the French teams, whose six cars were caught in a storm with hailstones the size of golf balls. &#8220;It took us two days to get six new Enyaq windscreens to replace the broken ones,&#8221; Ku\u010dera says.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190434\" style=\"width: 1022px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2022\/08\/Javier-Guillen.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190434\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2022\/08\/Javier-Guillen.webp\" alt=\"Javier Guill\u00e9n\" width=\"1022\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2022\/08\/Javier-Guillen.webp 1022w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2022\/08\/Javier-Guillen-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2022\/08\/Javier-Guillen-768x511.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2022\/08\/Javier-Guillen-272x182.webp 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Vuelta\u2019s race director Javier Guill\u00e9n overlooking La Vuelta from \u0160koda Enyaq. \u00a9\ufe0fBaixauliStudio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Our team leaves nothing to chance. All the cars must be 100% throughout the race because they drive within reach of cyclists and spectators. There&#8217;s no space for a mistake, so we can\u2019t allow the comfort of overlooking any technical malfunction. Instead of questioning any part, we replace it instantly. Even the smallest dent in the windscreen makes us remove the original part and replace it with a new one,&#8221; Ku\u010dera says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the cars are ready, they are loaded onto trucks and sent on an 1,800-km journey. While the Leading Cars travel on a covered trailer, the others are shipped on an open truck six to eight at a time. This way, the risk of something happening to them along the way is eliminated. In Spain, the cars undergo a final inspection, and their radios get tuned so every channel works correctly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few days before the first stage, the team travels around all the tracks, checking the state of the charging station network. &#8220;The coverage is improving year by year, but in the past, it happened a few times that we arrived, and there was just a cable sticking out of the ground or a burnt-out charger,&#8221; Ku\u010dera says, adding that even in the most remote villages, they have always managed to find a place where the cars can be connected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team doesn&#8217;t stop day and night for more than three weeks of racing. During the event, the mechanics can do almost anything, receiving cars with crushed bumpers in the evening and returning them unscratched in the early morning. What&#8217;s his worst nightmare for them? That someone will drive an uncharged car. Or that someone on the team won\u2019t recharge the batteries that power the internal systems, including the radio and sunroof.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;And when it&#8217;s all over? I&#8217;ll breathe a sigh of relief for a moment, but then I&#8217;ll immediately switch to the next event. There are always many things done but more to do,&#8221; Ku\u010dera says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just seconds before the first stage of La Vuelta Espa\u00f1a, thousands of people feel butterflies in their stomach. 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