2025 National Circuit Race Championships: domestic riders to watch
Tonight's National Circuit Race Championships gives domestic riders a real shot against WorldTour names. Serving this year as the next Rapha Super-League round and the last big test before the National Circuit Series opener in Otley, the race - and our latest piece - spotlights the domestic contenders best placed to cause an upset.
Having become integrated with the Time Trial and Road Race at the National Championships in 2021, the Circuit Race has since proved a fascinating battle between riders in the professional and development ranks and those plying their trade on the domestic scene; fast town centre chaos and technical laps of tight circuits the great leveller in a one-off championship race.
The beauty of criterium racing is not only the way it can light up a local community on any given summer’s evening, but its unpredictability. Tom Pidcock stunned the field as a junior, while few would have given Jo Tindley or Ollie Wood a chance when they embarked on their long breaks in 2021 and 2023 respectively, Groupama-FDJ proving that team tactics can still be a deadly weapon over the short format a year, Lewis Askey leading home an incredible 1-2-3.
The Circuit Race almost certainly represents the best opportunity for domestic riders to claim a medal during the Championships, and with the coveted blue and red banded jersey up for grabs ahead of the National Circuit Series, which starts next week, motivation couldn’t be higher. Aberystwyth the first stop on a white-knuckle ride taking place over the high summer.
Here is our guide to the riders to watch out for.
Featured image: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
Women’s race
Kicking off the action is the women’s race at 6:15, a relatively small field of 55 riders promising a fascinating battle between some of the WorldTour teams and their development squads’ best young talent, a host of Britain’s finest track riders, and criterium specialists hungry to make a mark on their season at the first opportunity, mixed with the combined strength of Britain’s UCI Continental teams, who will be wanting the jersey on one of their riders ahead of the start of the National Circuit Series next Wednesday.
2023 Champion Megan Barker leads the line for the London-based Tekkerz CC squad, the Welsh rider joined by teammate Josie Knight to form what could be a formidable duo; the pair are both double World Champions in the Team Pursuit. On the road, they offer a fast finish and the strength to change the race, the short efforts around the velodrome lending themselves to this style of racing.
Sophie Lewis (DAS-Hutchinson) is another track rider cut from the same cloth; a winner of National Circuit Series rounds in Otley, Colne and Beverley as well as the Tour Series in Guisborough, despite only being 23 years of age. Lewis has had her season disrupted by injury however, confined to the turbo she made her first appearance of the year at the Copenhagen Sprint last weekend, failing to finish the WorldTour race. With limited miles in the legs it is a big ask for Lewis to take the title, although the 50 minute format will play into her hands.
At 34, Neah Evans (Handsling Alba Development Road Team) is of a different generation of track stars to the likes of Lewis, although the former Madison and Points Race World Champion can still produce the goods on the road with a podium in the CiCLE Classic back in March. Having focused almost exclusively on the track for many years, Evans has little in the way of solid circuit race form to analyse, but brings a cool head and wealth of experience to Aberystwyth, as well as a strong team containing young rider Maddie Leech, a Commonwealth Games medallist on the track. A bronze medallist from the circuit race two years ago, Leech will have not only improved her strength since then, but also boasts an excellent time trial should she decide to take a risk and go it alone.
While the race has undoubtedly proved fruitful for track stars in recent years, Evans, Leech and Lewis will be backed up by some of the strongest road riders in the country, each with designs on taking the top step of the podium. Tour de Femenin winner Kate Richardson (Handsling Alba Development Road Team) is no stranger to the track, but proved her brute strength on the roads of Lincolnshire a year go, storming up Michaelgate, breaking away from the peloton with a lap to go to take a commanding win in the Lincoln GP. Having recovered from a horrific hit and run whilst out training last year, the Scot appears to be going from strength to strength and will want to make the race as difficult as possible for the sprinters on the coastal circuit.
Kate Richardson (Handsling Alba Development Road Team). Image: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com
Also lining up for Bob Lyon’s outfit are Amy Gornall, who waa second in the Sheffield GP two years ago after breaking away with Monica Greenwood early on in the race, and first year U23 MariPorton, who has proved effective in uphill bunch sprints at the end of road races throughout her short career, a top ten in Dudley last year an indication she can transfer her speed over to the criterium format.
Robyn Clay and Lucy Lee are riders who will look to employ similar tactics to Kate Richardson in their hunt for the jersey, the depth in their DAS-Hutchinson squad unable to natch that of their Scottish rivals, however. Clay in particular has been in excellent form of late, picking up a stage in the Tour de Femenin and winning a brutal edition of the Alexandra Tour of the Reservoir on Sunday in a two up sprint. A fast finisher herself, Clay has the strength to break the race open, a tactic she has used very effectively in each of her three National Road Series wins so far.
Hoping to put the road and track riders in their place are a host of circuit race specialists, Isabel Darvill (CJ O’Shea Racing) hoping to take the top step of the podium after a bronze medal last year. A consistent performer in the National Circuit Series over the past couple of years, the Nottinghamshire rider suffered a season ending crash at the Sheffield GP last year but looks to have made a solid recovery, putting in a number of race days this year; this race her number one target for the season.
Lucy Glover (Smurfit Westrock CT) hasn’t raced a National level race in Britain so far this season but heads to Wales with a fearsome sprint finish and reputation to match after winning the Dudley GP in 2023 at just 16 years of age. Now a first year U23, Glover will be able to lean on her vastly more experienced teammate Jo Tindley, a relative veteran who shocked everyone back in 2021 with a stunning long-range solo victory around the streets of her home city, Lincoln, to take the national title. Her competitors may be more wary of letting Tindley go after her heroics that night, but she remains one if the strongest riders on the circuit and can certainly have more than a passing influence the race.
Amy Perryman (Private Member) is lightly raced off the back of a winter of cyclocross, although demonstrated that she heads to the Championships in excellent shape, finishing second to Zoe Roche in the VIA Criterium around King’s Cross on Saturday. A place behind her was Charlotte Broughton-Kulset (Torelli), a rider whose lack of racing over the past couple of years has seen her slip down to a 3rd category licence, a handful of races in Belgium the sum of her efforts in the past 18 months. However, Broughton-Kulset did win the Otley GP back in 2022, a result which reminds everyone exactly what she can do when given the opportunity.
Georgina Oakley (Loughborough Lightning) is something of a wildcard on this list, having shown little in the way of National A form since 6th place in the Colne GP back in 2022. However, having taken six National B circuit race wins so far this season, Oakley clearly knows how to cross the line first, can she do so again on the biggest stage of them all?
Men’s race
With defending champion Lewis Askey and his Groupama-FDJ juggernaut sitting the Circuit Race out this year, the door is open for Tekkerz CC, Alex Briggs‘ London based collective to dominate a race where the criterium specialists dominate the startlist.
Clad in their distinctive dinosaur laden skinsuits, Tekkerz have assembled a team including some of the finest criterium riders the UK has produced, coupled with exceptional young talent. While Ribble Rebellion’s mission to disrupt the global crit scene was derailed at this point last year, Tekkerz could begin their campaign having taken hold of the UK scene in style.
Matt Bostock leads the line, the Manxman needing little introduction. Champion in 2022 and winner in Otley, Dudley, Colne, and Beverley – four of the seven rounds in last year’s National Circuit Series, he possesses a wicked turn of speed at the end of a race, as well as excellent tactical awareness and years of experience.
Matthew Bostock (TEKKERZ CC). Image: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com
By his side is another new signing for 2025, the 2023 Champion Ollie Wood, a strong rouleur and mainstay of the National track programme, as well as 17-year-old Milo Wills, a prodigious talent who claimed a gold medal as part of the Mixed Team Relay at the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in in Lieven back in January. Impressing at Crystal Palace this summer, he was second to Briggs himself in one of the races, these Championships representing the team owner’s best oppurtunity to claiming the national title he holds so dear.
Briggs is a criterium specialist who has made no secret in the past of his desire to make the blue and red bands his own; a win in the National Circuit Series finale in Newark two years ago a demonstration of his bike handling and speed in a quality field. Now with an outstanding team alongside him to take hold of the race, Briggs proved he is capable of finishing the job, defending his VIA Criterium title last weekend in King’s Cross, leading a Tekkerz podium lockout. Could the squad repeat that feat on the biggest stage?
While Tekkerz start the race with the weight of expectation firmly on their shoulders, Wheelbase-CabTech-Castelli could be the beneficiaries of that and the team to watch out for in Aberystwyth.
Tim Shoreman (Wheelbase CabTech Castelli). Image: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com
Scot Tim Shoreman sprinted to a surprise bronze medal amongst WorldTour company two years ago in a breakthrough ride, and has since used his brutal turn of speed to take the win in the Colne round of the National Series a year later; his power and fast finish a trump card for the Cumbrian Elite Development Team.
Supporting Shoreman will be TomArmstrong, the Lancastrian one of the domestic scene’s most consistent performers, finishing third in both the National Road and Circuit Series last season. Top ten finishes in almost every National Circuit Series round last season demonstrates his ability to follow the right wheels and make the winning move, a valuable asset to have in what is likely to be a very agressive 50 minutes of racing. While Armstrong may be a crucial lieutenant to Shoreman, Max Bufton, Aaron King and Dexter Leeming-Sykes have all hit form at different times this season and will play their part in a line up showing little in the way of chinks in their armour. Stu Reid’s team will start the race with the jersey in their sights.
Outside of the Tekkerz and Wheelbase battle lies Dylan Hicks, another fine sprinter but the sole Raptor Factory Racing entrant. Hicks proved his speed in a bunch sprint when winning a stage at the Tour of Hellas last season, his racecraft shining through when taking to the podium in this year’s CiCLE Classic. Inexperienced at this level of criterium racing, having failed to finish the only two National A circuit races he’s started, the Brighton puncheur is very much a dark horse, but has all the ingredients to surprise a number of riders at the finish.
Another dark horse is Frank Longstaff (DAS-Richardsons), no one able to hold their speed for longer than the reigning National Madison Champion, as Matt Bostock himself found out at the Cambridgeshire Criterium last August. A pure sprinter tipping the scales at 90kg, the Colchester rider needs a flowing course to arrive in position to unleash his devastating burst of speed, his track instincts make him very difficult to beat in a bunch gallop. Three times a National B criterium winner this season, if Longstaff finds the course to his liking he has the form to add another national title to his collection. His teammate WillPerrett could be a vital boost to his chances, the tenacious track rider a master of his craft on the boards and able to transfer that skill to the hectic nature of a coastal circuit race, acting as the perfect foil, or lead out rider for Longstaff should it come down to a sprint.
William Perrett (DAS Richardsons). Image: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com
George Kimber is better known as a rider to look out for in road races, having defied the odds to win the 2024 National Road Series. However, the Spirit Racing Team rider, now residing in Wales, earned his first National A podium at the Ilkley GP two years ago, work commitments limiting hs criterium appearances since. Kimber is stronger, faster, and more tactically astute now, earning a reputation as a rider to watch in any race he enters, a medal a real possibility despite his lack of a teammate.
Will Roberts and Rhys Britton (Dolan Factory Racing) have both scored podiums in the Dudley GP in the past, their track skills coming to the fore on the figure of eight circuit. Neither have lit up the domestic scene this season, their time now on the horizon as we reach the National Circuit Series, Roberts showing excellent early season potential in the format with a 4th place in the Independent Dodecanese Circuit Race in Greece against an international field.
Will Tidball (Private Member) joins his Saint Piran alumni in looking forward to the advent of the criterium season, the former Scratch Race World Champion showing his form is coming along nicely with two top-6 stage finishes in the Ràs Tailteann last month. The 25-year-old is still relatively inexperienced in the format, although brings a lot of international experience from the road and track; his rainbow jersey a reminder of his ability, and potential to play a part on Friday evening.
Ben Chilton (Mayenne-V and B-Monbana) may not be a domestic rider anymore, but deserves a mention here after dominating the 2023 National Circuit Series, his epic solo win in Guildford setting him up for the overall win and his move to France. Taking to the French scene like a duck to water, Chilton looks a far superior rider to the one that moved there 18 months ago, his last appearance in Britain yielding a surprise silver medal at the National Cyclocross Championships. That result indicated he still has the punch that made him such a force two seasons ago, the rangey figure of the Derby rider will be easy to spot near the head of the race in his team’s distinctive pink kit.
Jim Brown (Golden State Blazers) played an active role at the Lincoln GP in May, his last race before these championships, the 24-year-old now making a career out of criterium racing in the USA. Having been a key member of the Ribble Rebellion team last year, Brown is one of the riders looking to rival his long time teammate Matt Bostock, the Yorkshireman showing he is in good form with his new team by putting in a number of excellent performances across the Atlantic so far this year, including a UCI win in the Redlands Cycling Classic and victory in Belize’s Annual Holy Saturday Cross Country Race. An aggressor with a fast sprint finish, Brown will be taking a leaf from his former employer’s book and looking to disrupt proceedings around Aberystwyth.
More
You can watch the race live on the British Cycling Youtube channel, with the Women’s race live from 18:05 and the Open race live from 19:55. You can also watch on Discovery+ and TNT, plus a full highlights programme will be broadcast on Discovery+ TNT2 on Monday 30th at 7pm.
Having become integrated with the Time Trial and Road Race at the National Championships in 2021, the Circuit Race has since proved a fascinating battle between riders in the professional and development ranks and those plying their trade on the domestic scene; fast town centre chaos and technical laps of tight circuits the great leveller in a one-off championship race.
The beauty of criterium racing is not only the way it can light up a local community on any given summer’s evening, but its unpredictability. Tom Pidcock stunned the field as a junior, while few would have given Jo Tindley or Ollie Wood a chance when they embarked on their long breaks in 2021 and 2023 respectively, Groupama-FDJ proving that team tactics can still be a deadly weapon over the short format a year, Lewis Askey leading home an incredible 1-2-3.
The Circuit Race almost certainly represents the best opportunity for domestic riders to claim a medal during the Championships, and with the coveted blue and red banded jersey up for grabs ahead of the National Circuit Series, which starts next week, motivation couldn’t be higher. Aberystwyth the first stop on a white-knuckle ride taking place over the high summer.
Here is our guide to the riders to watch out for.
Featured image: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com
Women’s race
Kicking off the action is the women’s race at 6:15, a relatively small field of 55 riders promising a fascinating battle between some of the WorldTour teams and their development squads’ best young talent, a host of Britain’s finest track riders, and criterium specialists hungry to make a mark on their season at the first opportunity, mixed with the combined strength of Britain’s UCI Continental teams, who will be wanting the jersey on one of their riders ahead of the start of the National Circuit Series next Wednesday.
2023 Champion Megan Barker leads the line for the London-based Tekkerz CC squad, the Welsh rider joined by teammate Josie Knight to form what could be a formidable duo; the pair are both double World Champions in the Team Pursuit. On the road, they offer a fast finish and the strength to change the race, the short efforts around the velodrome lending themselves to this style of racing.
Sophie Lewis (DAS-Hutchinson) is another track rider cut from the same cloth; a winner of National Circuit Series rounds in Otley, Colne and Beverley as well as the Tour Series in Guisborough, despite only being 23 years of age. Lewis has had her season disrupted by injury however, confined to the turbo she made her first appearance of the year at the Copenhagen Sprint last weekend, failing to finish the WorldTour race. With limited miles in the legs it is a big ask for Lewis to take the title, although the 50 minute format will play into her hands.
At 34, Neah Evans (Handsling Alba Development Road Team) is of a different generation of track stars to the likes of Lewis, although the former Madison and Points Race World Champion can still produce the goods on the road with a podium in the CiCLE Classic back in March. Having focused almost exclusively on the track for many years, Evans has little in the way of solid circuit race form to analyse, but brings a cool head and wealth of experience to Aberystwyth, as well as a strong team containing young rider Maddie Leech, a Commonwealth Games medallist on the track. A bronze medallist from the circuit race two years ago, Leech will have not only improved her strength since then, but also boasts an excellent time trial should she decide to take a risk and go it alone.
While the race has undoubtedly proved fruitful for track stars in recent years, Evans, Leech and Lewis will be backed up by some of the strongest road riders in the country, each with designs on taking the top step of the podium. Tour de Femenin winner Kate Richardson (Handsling Alba Development Road Team) is no stranger to the track, but proved her brute strength on the roads of Lincolnshire a year go, storming up Michaelgate, breaking away from the peloton with a lap to go to take a commanding win in the Lincoln GP. Having recovered from a horrific hit and run whilst out training last year, the Scot appears to be going from strength to strength and will want to make the race as difficult as possible for the sprinters on the coastal circuit.
Also lining up for Bob Lyon’s outfit are Amy Gornall, who waa second in the Sheffield GP two years ago after breaking away with Monica Greenwood early on in the race, and first year U23 Mari Porton, who has proved effective in uphill bunch sprints at the end of road races throughout her short career, a top ten in Dudley last year an indication she can transfer her speed over to the criterium format.
Robyn Clay and Lucy Lee are riders who will look to employ similar tactics to Kate Richardson in their hunt for the jersey, the depth in their DAS-Hutchinson squad unable to natch that of their Scottish rivals, however. Clay in particular has been in excellent form of late, picking up a stage in the Tour de Femenin and winning a brutal edition of the Alexandra Tour of the Reservoir on Sunday in a two up sprint. A fast finisher herself, Clay has the strength to break the race open, a tactic she has used very effectively in each of her three National Road Series wins so far.
Hoping to put the road and track riders in their place are a host of circuit race specialists, Isabel Darvill (CJ O’Shea Racing) hoping to take the top step of the podium after a bronze medal last year. A consistent performer in the National Circuit Series over the past couple of years, the Nottinghamshire rider suffered a season ending crash at the Sheffield GP last year but looks to have made a solid recovery, putting in a number of race days this year; this race her number one target for the season.
Lucy Glover (Smurfit Westrock CT) hasn’t raced a National level race in Britain so far this season but heads to Wales with a fearsome sprint finish and reputation to match after winning the Dudley GP in 2023 at just 16 years of age. Now a first year U23, Glover will be able to lean on her vastly more experienced teammate Jo Tindley, a relative veteran who shocked everyone back in 2021 with a stunning long-range solo victory around the streets of her home city, Lincoln, to take the national title. Her competitors may be more wary of letting Tindley go after her heroics that night, but she remains one if the strongest riders on the circuit and can certainly have more than a passing influence the race.
Amy Perryman (Private Member) is lightly raced off the back of a winter of cyclocross, although demonstrated that she heads to the Championships in excellent shape, finishing second to Zoe Roche in the VIA Criterium around King’s Cross on Saturday. A place behind her was Charlotte Broughton-Kulset (Torelli), a rider whose lack of racing over the past couple of years has seen her slip down to a 3rd category licence, a handful of races in Belgium the sum of her efforts in the past 18 months. However, Broughton-Kulset did win the Otley GP back in 2022, a result which reminds everyone exactly what she can do when given the opportunity.
Georgina Oakley (Loughborough Lightning) is something of a wildcard on this list, having shown little in the way of National A form since 6th place in the Colne GP back in 2022. However, having taken six National B circuit race wins so far this season, Oakley clearly knows how to cross the line first, can she do so again on the biggest stage of them all?
Men’s race
With defending champion Lewis Askey and his Groupama-FDJ juggernaut sitting the Circuit Race out this year, the door is open for Tekkerz CC, Alex Briggs‘ London based collective to dominate a race where the criterium specialists dominate the startlist.
Clad in their distinctive dinosaur laden skinsuits, Tekkerz have assembled a team including some of the finest criterium riders the UK has produced, coupled with exceptional young talent. While Ribble Rebellion’s mission to disrupt the global crit scene was derailed at this point last year, Tekkerz could begin their campaign having taken hold of the UK scene in style.
Matt Bostock leads the line, the Manxman needing little introduction. Champion in 2022 and winner in Otley, Dudley, Colne, and Beverley – four of the seven rounds in last year’s National Circuit Series, he possesses a wicked turn of speed at the end of a race, as well as excellent tactical awareness and years of experience.
By his side is another new signing for 2025, the 2023 Champion Ollie Wood, a strong rouleur and mainstay of the National track programme, as well as 17-year-old Milo Wills, a prodigious talent who claimed a gold medal as part of the Mixed Team Relay at the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in in Lieven back in January. Impressing at Crystal Palace this summer, he was second to Briggs himself in one of the races, these Championships representing the team owner’s best oppurtunity to claiming the national title he holds so dear.
Briggs is a criterium specialist who has made no secret in the past of his desire to make the blue and red bands his own; a win in the National Circuit Series finale in Newark two years ago a demonstration of his bike handling and speed in a quality field. Now with an outstanding team alongside him to take hold of the race, Briggs proved he is capable of finishing the job, defending his VIA Criterium title last weekend in King’s Cross, leading a Tekkerz podium lockout. Could the squad repeat that feat on the biggest stage?
While Tekkerz start the race with the weight of expectation firmly on their shoulders, Wheelbase-CabTech-Castelli could be the beneficiaries of that and the team to watch out for in Aberystwyth.
Scot Tim Shoreman sprinted to a surprise bronze medal amongst WorldTour company two years ago in a breakthrough ride, and has since used his brutal turn of speed to take the win in the Colne round of the National Series a year later; his power and fast finish a trump card for the Cumbrian Elite Development Team.
Supporting Shoreman will be Tom Armstrong, the Lancastrian one of the domestic scene’s most consistent performers, finishing third in both the National Road and Circuit Series last season. Top ten finishes in almost every National Circuit Series round last season demonstrates his ability to follow the right wheels and make the winning move, a valuable asset to have in what is likely to be a very agressive 50 minutes of racing. While Armstrong may be a crucial lieutenant to Shoreman, Max Bufton, Aaron King and Dexter Leeming-Sykes have all hit form at different times this season and will play their part in a line up showing little in the way of chinks in their armour. Stu Reid’s team will start the race with the jersey in their sights.
Outside of the Tekkerz and Wheelbase battle lies Dylan Hicks, another fine sprinter but the sole Raptor Factory Racing entrant. Hicks proved his speed in a bunch sprint when winning a stage at the Tour of Hellas last season, his racecraft shining through when taking to the podium in this year’s CiCLE Classic. Inexperienced at this level of criterium racing, having failed to finish the only two National A circuit races he’s started, the Brighton puncheur is very much a dark horse, but has all the ingredients to surprise a number of riders at the finish.
Another dark horse is Frank Longstaff (DAS-Richardsons), no one able to hold their speed for longer than the reigning National Madison Champion, as Matt Bostock himself found out at the Cambridgeshire Criterium last August. A pure sprinter tipping the scales at 90kg, the Colchester rider needs a flowing course to arrive in position to unleash his devastating burst of speed, his track instincts make him very difficult to beat in a bunch gallop. Three times a National B criterium winner this season, if Longstaff finds the course to his liking he has the form to add another national title to his collection. His teammate Will Perrett could be a vital boost to his chances, the tenacious track rider a master of his craft on the boards and able to transfer that skill to the hectic nature of a coastal circuit race, acting as the perfect foil, or lead out rider for Longstaff should it come down to a sprint.
George Kimber is better known as a rider to look out for in road races, having defied the odds to win the 2024 National Road Series. However, the Spirit Racing Team rider, now residing in Wales, earned his first National A podium at the Ilkley GP two years ago, work commitments limiting hs criterium appearances since. Kimber is stronger, faster, and more tactically astute now, earning a reputation as a rider to watch in any race he enters, a medal a real possibility despite his lack of a teammate.
Will Roberts and Rhys Britton (Dolan Factory Racing) have both scored podiums in the Dudley GP in the past, their track skills coming to the fore on the figure of eight circuit. Neither have lit up the domestic scene this season, their time now on the horizon as we reach the National Circuit Series, Roberts showing excellent early season potential in the format with a 4th place in the Independent Dodecanese Circuit Race in Greece against an international field.
Will Tidball (Private Member) joins his Saint Piran alumni in looking forward to the advent of the criterium season, the former Scratch Race World Champion showing his form is coming along nicely with two top-6 stage finishes in the Ràs Tailteann last month. The 25-year-old is still relatively inexperienced in the format, although brings a lot of international experience from the road and track; his rainbow jersey a reminder of his ability, and potential to play a part on Friday evening.
Ben Chilton (Mayenne-V and B-Monbana) may not be a domestic rider anymore, but deserves a mention here after dominating the 2023 National Circuit Series, his epic solo win in Guildford setting him up for the overall win and his move to France. Taking to the French scene like a duck to water, Chilton looks a far superior rider to the one that moved there 18 months ago, his last appearance in Britain yielding a surprise silver medal at the National Cyclocross Championships. That result indicated he still has the punch that made him such a force two seasons ago, the rangey figure of the Derby rider will be easy to spot near the head of the race in his team’s distinctive pink kit.
Jim Brown (Golden State Blazers) played an active role at the Lincoln GP in May, his last race before these championships, the 24-year-old now making a career out of criterium racing in the USA. Having been a key member of the Ribble Rebellion team last year, Brown is one of the riders looking to rival his long time teammate Matt Bostock, the Yorkshireman showing he is in good form with his new team by putting in a number of excellent performances across the Atlantic so far this year, including a UCI win in the Redlands Cycling Classic and victory in Belize’s Annual Holy Saturday Cross Country Race. An aggressor with a fast sprint finish, Brown will be taking a leaf from his former employer’s book and looking to disrupt proceedings around Aberystwyth.
More
You can watch the race live on the British Cycling Youtube channel, with the Women’s race live from 18:05 and the Open race live from 19:55. You can also watch on Discovery+ and TNT, plus a full highlights programme will be broadcast on Discovery+ TNT2 on Monday 30th at 7pm.
Provisional startlists are here.
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