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.
Morven Yeoman led home a DAS–Hutchinson one-two at the women’s Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix, Sunday 10 May, while Ollie Ollie Wood (Rapha Cycling Club) won the 70th edition of the open race, attacking from a reduced front group on the final ascent of Michaelgate.
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.
We are really pleased to introduce Hope Inglis as the first of The British Continental’s new journal contributors for 2026. In her opening entry, she makes the case for what road cycling might learn from its muddier cousins – and why a trip to Cannock Chase rekindled her love of racing.