Paris-Roubaix came to these farm roads in 1978, when the organisers were hunting cobbles to replace the ones vanishing under asphalt, and took the rue du Cimetière, the pavé du Blocus and the Croix Blanche, tracks the tractors go back to work on the day after the race. The race had climbed the same hill before by a different road, the Pas Roland, 1.1 km of cobbles at 4% where Felice Gimondi attacked to win alone in 1966, and which was tarmacked before the 1967 edition. Every edition since 1978 has used the sector except 2001, and in 1997, 2000, 2002 and 2003 only its first 1,100 metres. Classed five stars, one of three on the route with the Trouée d'Arenberg and the Carrefour de l'Arbre, and standing about 48 km from the velodrome, it keeps settling the race: George Hincapie's aluminium steerer tube snapped here in 2006 and he crashed out with a separated collarbone, Stijn Devolder's attack in 2008 set up the win for his Quick Step team-mate Tom Boonen, Boonen cut the lead group to six on it in 2009, Fabian Cancellara went away on it in 2010 to ride in alone, and in 2016 the five who came off it together, Mathew Hayman, Boonen, Ian Stannard, Sep Vanmarcke and Edvald Boasson Hagen, were the five who filled the top five at Roubaix while Cancellara crashed here out of contention. The stones are kept by hand: since 2002 pupils from the horticultural schools of Raismes and Lomme have relaid sectors each year alongside Les Amis de Paris-Roubaix, and from 14 to 28 March 2022 twenty-three Lomme students rebuilt about 120 m² of the Croix Blanche and the Blocus, some 3,600 cobbles over 80 metres, for 3,372 euros paid by the Pévèle Carembault community of communes, three weeks before the 2022 races came through.