This summer the UK’s top professional cycling teams will do battle in an all-new 10-date town- and city-centre race series across the UK, which aims to bring the top UK race teams to crit races around the UK and is based on team performance for overall victory.
After months of preparation, Britain’s top professional cycling teams are set to go into battle to find the fastest, most tactically astute and stamina driven team of cyclists in the UK when the series begins at Milton Keynes on 21 May.
Unlike any other cycling series in the world The Tour Series is not based on individual athletic performance, but instead on team performance. 10 teams of five highly-tuned professional cyclists will engage in combat against each other to become overall Tour Series champions. With 50 cyclists racing for the best top three positions over one hour of fast-paced and attacking racing around a 1-1.5km city centre circuit, there are guaranteed to be thrills and spills.
The Tour Series team line-up contains the UK’s best elite cycling teams and within those teams are some of the greatest road and track racing talent that the UK has produced in the last 20 years. From Olympians Chris Newton, Rob Hayles and Ed Clancy, to domestic-dominator Russell Downing. Former national road champ and Giro d’Italia rider Matt Stephens leads the powerful Sigma squad and world silver medallist and former national track champ Tony Gibb leads the Plowman Craven – Madison boys out to engage with the UK’s best.
“With the awe inspiring venues, the excitement of the crowds and the fast and furious racing against the best teams in the UK, the Tour Series has to be the pinnacle of the BMC UK Racing Team’s season,” says BMC UK Racing Team manager Alan Rosner. “The riders have been training hard in preparation for the battles to come. The BMC UK Racing Team may not be the biggest or the most established of the teams on the domestic circuit but we will be taking the racing to the larger teams and looking to entertain the crowds and gain some fans with our passionate, aggressive style of racing.”
Dates and venues
- 21 May Milton Keynes
- 28 May Exeter
- 2 June Woking
- 4 June Peterborough
- 9 June Blackpool
- 11 June Southport
- 16 June Stoke on Trent
- 18 June TBC
- 23 June Chester
- 25 June Southend on Sea
Find out more at www.tourseries.co.uk
