[1] The race was won by Henri Pélissier with a convincing half-hour lead to his next opponent, Italian Ottavio Bottecchia.

[5] In the 1922 Tour de France, Hector Heusghem had lost the race because he received a one-hour penalty for illegally changing his bicycle.

[6] The rules about reparations were changed in the 1923 Tour: technical assistance from team directors was allowed.

[9] The sponsors, who had joined forces in the previous tours under the name La Sportive, were now financially stable enough to have their own teams.

The sponsor then decided that the marketing plan would not work with only one Italian cyclist, and wanted to send him back.

[5] In the fourth stage, Henri Pélissier received a two-minute penalty,[11] for throwing away a tyre.

[10] Although the race was neutralized on the Vars,[8] Henri Pélissier still won the stage with a large margin to Alavoine and Bottecchia, and took over the lead.

[8] In the eleventh stage, the Pélissier brothers left all other cyclists behind, with only Bellenger staying within ten minutes.

[16] Henri Pélissier was the first French winner of the Tour de France since 1911, and ended a series of seven Belgian victories.

[8] Desgrange, who had been in a fight with Pélissier for three years, wrote "The mountains seemed to sink lower, sunk by the victorious thrust of his muscle.

More than a score of times on the most vicious gradients, hands on the tops of the bars, he looked down at the valley bottoms, like an eagle staring at his prey".

The introduction of time bonuses for stage winners was considered a success and has been used for many Tours after 1923, although the details have changed since.