Rod Ellingworth, the brand new race director of the Tour of Britain, is hoping to persuade Olympic gold medalists Remco Evenepoel and Tom Pidcock to journey this 12 months’s race in early September.
The British stage race has been revived by British Biking after the earlier organisers declared chapter and even struggled to pay prices and prize cash from current editions of the race. Lloyds Financial institution has offered vital sponsorship for the race and British Biking, with the boys’s and ladies’s editions of the Tour of Britain thought of a key a part of a wider biking technique in Britain.
Lotte Kopecky gained the four-day version of the ladies’s Tour of Britain in june. The boys’s race might be over six phases between 3-8 September.
The boys’s Tour of Britain historically presents a really perfect path to the street race world championships, with earlier winners together with Wout van Aert, Mathieu van der Poel and Julian Alaphilippe.
Ellingworth hopes to see Evenepoel, Pidcock and others on the beginning line in Scotland, together with different big-name riders.
“We’d like to see Tom Pidcock towards Remco Evenepoel on the Tour of Britain. It would be cool to see two Olympic champions up towards one another,” he informed Cyclingnews.
“I feel the route would swimsuit Remco rather well and it’d be nice for British biking followers to see Tom race on house roads after he gained gold within the mountain bike race in Paris.”
Ellingworth is working for the Tour of Britain in a consultancy position after quite a few years as a efficiency director after which staff supervisor at Workforce Sky, Bahrain and Ineos Grenadiers.
He has visited a number of races and talked to groups to assist rebuild the repute of the Tour of Britain after the failures of earlier organiser Sweetspot. Some groups have deliberate race schedules with out the Tour of Britain however others are inquisitive about returning to British roads. The Tour of Britain has nonetheless to disclose the staff for this 12 months’s race.
“I don’t have any affirmation on riders but however we’ve been speaking to groups. I noticed that Remco’s staff supervisor Patrick Lefevere indicated that the Tour of Britain might be his first journey again after the Olympics. He’d be very welcome,” Ellingworth stated.
“A number of the groups have began to ship of their entry checklist, so we will see who’s coming, however there is not any affirmation on anyone but. A whole lot of riders have ridden the Tour of Britain previously to arrange for the World Championships and I feel this 12 months’s hilly course world once more.”
