Eric Zorn has a a few thoughts on the Tour de France. There is always the homegrown Race Across America, which I think is totally awesome (and exactly the sort of Cannonball Run he describes), but even a staggered start would be interesting. The problem is that you’d have to do a time trial to get the initial stagger, so you don’t have everybody starting at once.
Sounds more interesting than what you have now, I agree
CHEESE!
what an idiot….
Hey, why don’t those furners play football too?
On second thought, this would basically turn the Tour into a giant NASCAR race.
I guess it’s not such a good idea…