‘Would this happen in F1?’ asks Plugge after Van Baarle, Kruijswijk out of Critérium du Dauphiné and Tour de France with fractures from mass crash

Visma-Lease a Bike announced that Dylan van Baarle and Steven Kruijswijk will not continue in the Critérium du Dauphiné after falling in a mass crash on stage 5.

Richard Plugge, the team’s manager, reacted to a spectator’s video showing many riders in the peloton falling and sliding down the wet tarmac as if on ice, asking “would this happen in F1? Or would the safety organisation take measures upfront?”