Étoile de Bessèges 2025 February 5th - 9th

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F1 race circuits are a good place for cycling too.

Then why do we get so many crashes whenever a GT finishes on one? Super wide roads and turns aren't always good. Especially in the turns you see riders miscalculating them cause they can go in them with insane speed. Riders overlap wheels constantly.

And then I'm ignoring that just doing laps on a F1 circuit is just a different sport.
 
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Then why do we get so many crashes whenever a GT finishes on one? Super wide roads and turns aren't always good. Especially in the turns you see riders miscalculating them cause they can go in them with insane speed. Riders overlap wheels constantly.

And then I'm ignoring that just doing laps on a F1 circuit is just a different sport.
Crashes, reckless drivers, terrible weather conditions......,all are part of cycling.
 
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Then why do we get so many crashes whenever a GT finishes on one? Super wide roads and turns aren't always good. Especially in the turns you see riders miscalculating them cause they can go in them with insane speed. Riders overlap wheels constantly.

And then I'm ignoring that just doing laps on a F1 circuit is just a different sport.
I think he's joking
 
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Jan 22, 2010
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im not very motivated to bother watching today's stage.
If I do it will only be to kill time before valencia
 
Apr 30, 2011
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The agreement in the morning was "We'll race, if you can guarantee there won't be another incident. One more incident, and we're out!"
Presumably everyone - including the teams who stayed - agreed with that.
I see no reason to believe that was the case, and none of what has surfaced makes it reasonable to presume that.
 
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Dec 28, 2010
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This isn't *that* bridge (the Ferron fingernails incident) is it? Some co-incidence if the two most talked about incidents in the race's history were at the same spot.
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According to PCS, they just rode across *that* bridge in today's stage, 37 km in.
 
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Then why do we get so many crashes whenever a GT finishes on one? Super wide roads and turns aren't always good. Especially in the turns you see riders miscalculating them cause they can go in them with insane speed. Riders overlap wheels constantly.

And then I'm ignoring that just doing laps on a F1 circuit is just a different sport.
Then was a very interesting article on one of the cycling sites about why it's so different to ride on a motor racing circuit. The entire road layout and surface is different from normal roads. That's why things go haywire when procyclists ride on them.
 
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Lovely weather in the French National Champs today. Sadly less wind then hoped so will just be a fight on Mont Bouquet and not like 2 years ago when there were only 15 riders left at the foot of the climb.