How the Rapha Super-League will be won: the scoring system revealed

This Sunday’s Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix does more than launch the domestic road-racing season – it fires the starting gun on the brand-new Rapha Super-League, a 16-round competition designed to find the best all-round riders across Britain’s most prestigious road races, crits and a two-day stage race. Riders don’t need to enter; simply finishing any of the listed events drops them straight into the league table.

Below we publish, for the first time, the full scoring matrix that will decide the inaugural champions, together with a quick explainer of the logic behind it.

The logic

• Prestige & discipline weighting – A committee made up of Rapha staff, current racers and The British Continental has graded each event. The more prestigious the race, the more points a win is worth. Road events pay points down to 20th; crits – which there are more of – pay to 15th. 
• Stage-race bonuses – The Ronde Van Wymeswold (14-15 June) is the only stage race. Overall GC points mirror a mid-tier road race, but every stage win carries a 5-point bonus, meaning a rider who sweeps the weekend can bank the same 65-point haul available at the National Circuit Race Championships.
• Final-round fireworks – The closing Cambridge Crit and Wentwood Woodhouse GP carry an extra 10 points for the top placings, keeping the title fight alive until the very last weekend. 
• Gender parity – Exactly the same scale applies to the women’s competition, creating two equal leaderboards. 

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At a glance: points on offer – race by race

Date	Race	Discipline	Pts for the win	Pts awarded down to
11 May	Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix	Road	70	20th
14-15 Jun	Ronde Van Wymeswold (GC)	Stage race	50 (+5 per stage win)	20th
21 Jun	VIA Criterium	Crit	45	15th
22 Jun	Tour of the Reservoir	Road	60	20th
26 Jun	National Crit Championships	Crit	65	15th
27 Jun	National Road Championships	Road	75	20th
2 Jul	Otley Cycle Races	Crit	65	15th
4 Jul	Ilkley Cycle Races	Crit	45	15th
9 Jul	Guildford Town Centre Races	Crit	45	15th
16 Jul	Sheffield Grand Prix	Crit	45	15th
22 Jul	Fort Vale Colne Grand Prix	Crit	45	15th
25 Jul	Dawlish Grand Prix	Crit	45	15th
27 Jul	South West Round	Road	60	20th
17 Aug	Curlew Cup & Beaumont Trophy	Road	65	20th
24 Aug	Cambridge Crit*	Crit	55	15th
31 Aug	Wentwood Woodhouse GP*	Road	70	20th

* Denotes the two bonus-point finales.

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What those numbers really mean

• Road vs crit specialists – Because first-place road and crit scores are balanced (75 vs 65 max, with 70 vs 65 for the finales), a crit ace can beat a road powerhouse – but only by scoring consistently throughout the summer.
• Consistency counts – Twenty riders pick up something at every road race; fifteen at each crit. Expect the GC to reward those who turn up week in, week out, not just the headline winners.
• Stage-race shake-up – Three 5-point stage bonuses mean the Ronde Van Wymeswold offers as many points as a national crit title if you dominate the weekend, potentially flipping the table early on.
• Late drama baked in – With an extra 10 points available at both Cambridge and Wentwood Woodhouse, no lead is truly safe – exactly what the organisers intended. 

The points in full

Keep up

Standings will be published here on The British Continental within 24 hours of every round, so bookmark our dedicated Super-League hub and settle in for a summer-long storyline. Bring on Lincoln – and let the points race begin.

Image: Joe Cotterill/The British Continental