Nina Lavenu (AG Insurance Soudal Development Team) and Matt Bostock (Rapha CC) took victory as domestic cycling returned to the Square Mile for the London Nocturne, Lavenu delivered by teammate Leonie Bentveld after a ten-rider move shaped the Elite Women’s race, before Bostock held off national champion Cameron Mason from a four-rider break in the Open race.
On Saturday 13 June, the City of London Nocturne returns after eight years away, bringing floodlit UCI criterium racing back to the heart of the capital. Rebuilt around a 1.3-kilometre circuit through Cheapside and Bank, with St Paul’s Cathedral at one end and the Bank of England at the other, the revived Nocturne is more than a city-centre spectacle: the elite women’s and men’s races also count towards the Rapha Super-League.
Eleven talking points from the 70th Lincoln Grand Prix, where Ollie Wood lit up Michaelgate, DAS-Hutchinson reasserted their authority, and one of British racing’s great institutions found fresh life on the cobblestones.
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.