In 1929, he had removed the sponsors, but this had had no effect; the Alcyon team members still cooperated and managed to let Maurice Dewaele win the race, even though he was sick.

The trade teams used to supply food, transport and lodging for the cyclists during the race, but now the Tour organisation had to pay for all this.

[5] The most popular sponsor in the publicity was Menier chocolates, whose advertising manager had advised the Tour organisation to start the publicity caravan; 500.000 fans came to the Tour de France stages early to receive chocolate handouts.

The best touriste-routier in the general classification received the Maillot d'argent (French for silver jersey), which was 500 francs per stage.

Belgium, Italy, Spain, Germany and France each sent a team composed of eight cyclists.

For the 1930 Giro d'Italia, he was paid money not to compete, so he started in the Tour de France that year.

[5] The French team was captained by Victor Fontan, who had been leading the 1929 Tour de France until he had to abandon the race due to mechanical problems.

[9] The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,556 m (8,386 ft) at the summit tunnel of the Col du Galibier mountain pass on stage 16.

[3] Pélissier had also crossed the line first in the sixth stage, but was relegated because he had pulled Binda's jersey.

[14] Pélissier's eight stage victories in one Tour is still a record; it has since been equalled by Eddy Merckx in 1970 and 1974, and Freddy Maertens in 1976.

For the general classification, no big things happened, except for the fall of Alfredo Binda in the seventh stage, which caused him to lose one hour, and abandon his hopes for the Tour victory.

[6] In the ninth stage, touriste-routier Benoît Fauré led the race over the first mountains, and dropped many cyclists.

Learco Guerra, second placed in the general classification with a margin of more than 16 minutes, saw an opportunity and was away as fast as he could, together with Jef Demuysere.

Charles Pélissier made the victory of the French team even more glorious, as he won the last four stages.

The organing newspaper, l'Auto named a meilleur grimpeur (best climber), an unofficial precursor to the modern King of the Mountains competition.

It also helped that a French cyclist won the race, which increased newspaper sales for the organising news paper l'Auto.