Race radios are a contentious topic, so we spent the day with Orica-GreenEDGE's Directeur Sportif Matt Wilson to find out how the team use them during the Vuelta.
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There are three radios in the team cars - one as the race feed from the organisers to let everyone know if something has happened, one to communicate between the two team cars on the rad and the one at the feed station and finally one for communicating to the riders.
The riders and the DS speak fairly regularly, however it is very, very hard to hear what the riders say with Matt saying he hears roughly 50% of what the riders say. This being the case, it is much easier for a rider to come back to the car to talk to the Directeur Sportif - and to pick up more drinks.
We were also amazed at the speeds at which the cars drive down narrow roads, avoiding all kinds of obstacles - really quite incredible!
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