In the early flat stages, the sprinters dominated. In the second stage, Austrian Max Bulla won the stage. He was a "touriste-routier", and had started ten minutes later than the A-class cyclists. He became the first, and only, touriste-routier to lead the Tour de France, and as of 2011 is the only Austrian to have led the race. Max Bulla was the only Austrian cyclist to win a stage in the Tour de France until 2005, when Georg Totschnig won the 14th stage.