Netflix's "Tour de France Unchained" editorial team will have to look for drama away from the Ineos Grenadier bus this July.

The recently released series depicted Tom Pidcock disobeying team orders as his teammate Carlos Rodriguez battled for the podium in the second week of the Tour de France.

By crossing the finish line of stage 4 in Valloire, the race's first high-altitude visit this year, in sixth place, the Spaniard appears to have regained his position as GC leader on the British team.

The 23-year-old was 37 seconds ahead of new leader Tadej Pogachar (plus a bonus 18 seconds). Two minutes later, teammates Egan Bernal and Geraint Thomas crossed the finish line, leaving Pidcock in 56th place, less than 12 minutes behind.

"In the end, it kind of saved the day," Rodriguez said after the stage. "I felt good on the last climb. I felt good on the last climb. I'm happy because I was able to get closer to the rest of the GC guys." [Sixth place is not a bad result. I definitely wanted to go higher, but I want to go better, step by step, day by day."

Pogachar's UAE Team Emirates team set a hellish pace on the final climb of the 140km stage, the Galibier Pass, shaking off riders like Tim Wellens, Joao Almeida, and Juan Ayuso left and right. As a result, Pidcock dropped out six riders at 26 km from the front, and Bernal dropped out three kilometers later.

Rodriguez led the pack along with Pogachar, two teammates Juan Ayuso and Joan Almeida, and the Soudal-Quickstep duo of Jonas Vingegaard, Primos Roglic, Remco Evenpoel and Mikel Landa.

At the top of the Galibier, after Pogachar escaped with the stage win, yellow, and a significant time gap, Rodriguez continued the chase with Roglic and Ayuso; the two collected a frightened Evenpoel on the long descent to the finish, 4 km from the Valloire and caught Vingegaard at 4 km from the Valloire.

Rodriguez later said that this was not the hardest stage he and his GC rivals would encounter in the Tour, but added that he was not surprised that UAE Team Emirates decided to go all out on this early stage.

"It was the first mountain day after all. Today and (another) "easy" day."

"It's never easy in the Tour, but the profile is not that hard.

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