The East Yorkshire Classic cycling weekend returns to Beverley on 20th and 21st July, bringing the country’s top professionals back to the town for the 6th round of the British Cycling Elite Circuit Race Series on Friday night and drawing 700 leisure riders together for the Big G Sportive rides on Saturday.
The Elite Circuit Race Series event, presented by the Hull Thursday Road Club, will once again treat the Beverley crowd to an evening of exciting bike racing in the town as a top class field drawn from Britain’s major cycling teams take part in fast and furious racing over a challenging circuit that includes sections of granite cobbles and sandstone block paving.
Amongst the riders to look out for will be the Elite Circuit Race Series leader Graham Briggs. The 29 year old from Doncaster has stamped his authority on the 2012 series with wins in the three of the rounds so far.
Briggs is no stranger to racing in Beverley as it was here in front of a huge crowd last year that he was crowned National Circuit Race Champion. There’ll be plenty of riders looking to put a stop to his dominance though, including Rico Rogers of Node4-Giordana who is currently 3rd in the series and last year’s series winner Dean Downing of Rapha Condor Sharp.
Andy Cawley, Race Organiser, looked forward to the event:
“We are looking forward to a great weekend of cycling in Beverley, East Yorkshire. The Elite Circuit Series race and support race will provide some intense racing around the technical 1.25km town centre circuit.
This is now the 6th year the town centre races have been held and the crowds continue to grow; spectators in their thousands turn out every year and we expect a similar number this year as the events come only a week before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Seven hundred leisure riders have entered the ‘Big G Sportive’ rides around the Yorkshire Wolds the following day.
We are very grateful for the terrific support we have received again from the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, EY Events team, the Police and Hull Thursday Road Club, as well as numerous local sponsors, in working together to deliver this free sporting spectacular.”
Racing will be contested over a 1.25km clockwise circuit that uses a mixture of open road and tight narrow sections. The race will start and finish in Beverley Town Centre in Saturday Marketplace, heading north and turning into Sow Hill before taking a right turn into Old Walkergate and into Wednesday Market and turning right into Lord Roberts Rd.
The race then turns right into Cross Street and onto the pedestrian zone before bearing left along Toll Gavel and continuing straight on into Saturday Market to complete the lap.
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