On Sunday 10 May, the Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix returns for its 70th edition with a revised route, two vacant titles, and the weight of the domestic season gathered on the cobbles of Michaelgate. Britain’s longest-running one-day road race is the closest thing the UK calendar has to a monument — and, as the highest-scoring round of the Rapha Super-League, it is the race every contender has to bend their season around.
Craig Paterson (Edinburgh Bike Fitting RT) countered off the front in the closing kilometres of the Hugh Dornan Memorial on Sunday 3 May to take a solo win on Round 2 of the Alba Series
Anna Morris took a commanding solo victory at the Witham Hall Grand Prix on Sunday 3 May, while Jack Rootkin-Gray edged out Will Truelove (JAKROO Handsling) in a two-up sprint to win the Timmy James Memorial Grand Prix
At Hethel, Lotus is not only a memory of carbon monocoques, Chris Boardman and Olympic gold. It is also a Tuesday-night race league, kept alive by volunteers and stubborn belief. Now Dan Bigham has joined Ken Jolliffe in trying to give one of East Anglia’s few racing institutions a future.