The Miami Nights and Denver Disruptors lead the roster of 10 co-ed groups which have accepted invites to race within the second season of the NCL Cup Sequence, males’s and ladies’s points-based, criterium-style races owned and operated by the Nationwide Biking League.
The Miami Nights received the inaugural three-event race collection in 2023, with the Denver Disruptors taking second general with a large factors lead over the third-placed mixed crew of Goldman Sachs ETFs Racing (ladies) and Texas Roadhouse Biking (males). New to the lineup is the brand new Atlanta Rise franchise, which can also be owned by the NCL. A reputation change for Roxo Racing now sees the ladies’s squad, Boneshaker p/b Orange Seal, paired once more with Voler Manufacturing unit Racing p/b Schnur Racing.
Of the 5 returning groups with collaborations, the CCB p/b Levin Regulation Group (ladies) and Basis Biking (males) is the one different combo crew that completed within the prime 5 and earned greater than 100 factors in a complete rating, the ladies’s crew accounting for almost all of the factors.
“After a season of getting a really feel for the distinctive new format in 2023, we’re desperate to compete within the 2024 NCL Cup collection. It is necessary to us to companion with occasions that put males’s and ladies’s competitors equally within the highlight,” stated Lauren LeClaire, sports activities director for CCB p/b Levine Regulation Group.
“The collection dietary supplements our race calendar completely to help the expansion of our athletes, placing them in racing conditions that require lightning-fast selections on the street that end in enjoyable and thrilling competitors.”
A calendar of occasions could have been supplied to the ten groups, however on the time of the press launch at present from the NCL, no schedule had been launched publicly. Final yr, the NCL Cup Sequence started with 4 occasions on the US calendar, launching in April in Miami Seaside, Florida. After a cease in Washington, DC was scratched, the ultimate two occasions befell on back-to-back weekends in August in Denver, Colorado and Atlanta, Georgia. Because the NCL owns groups within the three cities the place the inaugural NCL Cup Sequence was held final yr, it’s anticipated those self same cities will return on the 2024 calendar.
The NCL Cup Sequence continues with an modern biking format, with every occasion comprised of three segments – a pre-race qualifier to find out begin grids after which a ladies’s race and a males’s race, that are roughly 30 laps every. Substitutions are permitted, and winners are selected factors earned on laps, not by the ultimate rider to cross the end line. All races are sanctioned by USA Biking.
Final season, every of the three collection’ races provided a $30,000 prize purse. Groups within the general standings shared in a $130,000 money payout to all 10 groups, the Miami Nights incomes $45,000 because the NCL Cup champions after which $5,000 every to groups in seventh to tenth locations.
“Voler Manufacturing unit Racing is thrilled to announce its return to the NCL Cup for the upcoming 2024 season. NCL’s dedication to crew hospitality and its financial construction highlights NCL’s forward-thinking strategy, which is nice for the game, sponsors, and groups like Voler Manufacturing unit Racing,” stated Phil Mooney of Voler Manufacturing unit Racing p/b Schnur Racing, which completed eighth general final yr in partnership with ladies’s crew Roxo Racing, which is able to race in 2024 as Boneshaker p/b Orange Seal.
