Hoping to draw extra global festival, American cyclocross race collection USCX has added the two-event TREK CX Cup because the collection finale on October 4th – sixth, making a race block of 4 consecutives UCI race weekend on U.S. soil.
Trek has stepped up as collection sponsor in addition to the host of the overall race weekend with its Trek CX Cup, colloquially referred to as the “Fight Some of the Livestock”, happening at its Waterloo, Wisconsin – primarily based headquarters.
That is the primary time within the collection’ four-year historical past the place the race collection options all 4 of its race weekends consecutively, beginning in Roanoke, Virginia, in mid-September and finishing on the October Trek CX Cup occasion. Up to now, breaks so long as a month sat between races. All of the occasions will function UCI-registered races for elite riders, C1 on Saturdays and C2 on Sundays, in addition to novice occasions.
The hope is this consecutive layout will lure extra Ecu racers to wait the collection in complete and spend a while around the pond within the U.S. racing cyclocross. Moreover, North American athletes who hope to additionally compete on the Cyclocross Global Championships in Belgium will now have the ability to whole their U.S. season smartly prior to desiring to move to Europe.
There shall be a $15,000 overall prize handbag for the person and girl who most sensible the standings on the finish of the 4 week collection, cut up frivolously between the 2. Final yr, Canadian Maghalie Rochette (Canyon Collective) and American Curtis White (Steve Tilford Basis Racing) received the ladies’s and males’s elite USCX titles, respectively.
The 2024 USCX calendar:
