Red Bull Timelaps, billed as the ‘world’s longest one day bike race’ has confirmed its return for 2021. Taking place over the weekend of October, 30th-31st, 2021, the event will see riders and teams of cyclists compete to ride the furthest distance over 25 hours.
New for 2021 – following on from the virtual Red Bull Timelaps event in 2020, this year’s race will have both a virtual/indoor category and outdoor category, with a separate competition for each.
This will allow teams of riders to ride the event on an indoor bike-trainer set up, compete against other teams outdoors, or do both, with separate race categories available based on a team’s preferred choice of getting involved.
The in-person experiences will consist of two locations where teams can race alongside other competitors – either riding outdoors on a closed race track, or indoors on bike trainers. The locations are: Goodwood Motor Circuit, and Red Bull Studios in London.
In addition, 2021’s race will have a solo category – for any ultra-endurance riders – alongside the traditional race for teams of four – broken down into categories for male, female, mixed and under-25s.
The virtual Red Bull Timelaps race will give riders the ability to take part from anywhere in the UK by collectively logging their distance on Strava, which will be populated into leaderboards during the event live – so competitors can track their positions.
Red Bull is also currently running a Strava training challenge giving entrants the opportunity to train and get some miles in before the race in October.
Red Bull Timelaps sees riders pitted against each other and the clock, and challenged to accumulate as much distance as possible over the weekend the clocks go back in the UK. In a twist, the Continental ‘Power Hour’ will be activated when 02:00 becomes 01:00 again and riders’ efforts are doubled for 60 minutes, helping boost their place on the 25-hour-long race’s leaderboard.
To celebrate the return of the event, Red Bull has joined forces with multi-disciplinary bike phenom and ambassador athlete Tom Pidcock to help kickstart riders’ training, in preparation for the event in October. Those completing the training challenge and signing up for the event will be in with a chance to win a signed Tom Pidcock jersey.
