Apollo Cycling Club will be running their annual Billy Stewart event on the Sunday 12th August 2018. Racing Starts at 1pm.
This will be the third year using our new course – which takes in the village of Warringstown as well as through the greater Lurgan town – a challenging course with mixes of very flat fast open roads and some small but sharp hills as you climb the rolly Clare Road around the middle section of each lap before a fast flat run for the finish which will give the bigger men a chance to recover before the sprint for the line on the main Lurgan Gilford road in the middle of housing developments which is sure to get the spectators out.
The course has been designed by Apollo rider James Wilson which many of you will know has a long history of success racing in Ulster and beyond over the last 2 decades and who is currently an A2 racer and brings alot of experience as well as knowing what riders want!
This year we are back at Good Year Social Club as race HQ – and will do a neutral roll out to the race circuit on the Lurgan Gilford Road 3 miles away.
See race essentials when you register for details.
this year with a prize fund of £500 we will run an
- A2/3 race – Billy Stewart Cup;
- A4 race
- Ladies Race / Vets Race
Entry via Entry Central, click here
RACE DIRECTORS : Enda McDaid / Paul McCormac
Head Marshals : Gerard Smyth / Sean Haughey
for more info : paulmccormac@live.co.uk
Sign on all categories 11:00 – 12:15
Race HQ / Sign on : Goodyear Sports & Social Club Silverwood Rd, Lurgan, Craigavon BT66 6LN 54.467312, -6.372593
Race start / finish : Gilford Rd Lurgan, Craigavon BT66 7AE 54.448234, -6.326663
12.40 Roll out to Start Finish area three miles away on the Lurgan Gilford Road
Race start order and distances:
13:00 : A2/A3 : 6 laps – 90km
13:05 : A4 : 5 laps – 75km
13:10 : Masters/ Women: 3 laps – 45km
Refreshments with some food after races with presentation in the Good Year Club
Disqualification : Note : tight circuit with no white lines on the back roads – riders who ride on the right hand side of the road, endangering other riders, car users, public or themselves will be removed from the race or DQ’d after the race. Where the peleton races in a dangerous manor the Commissaires and / or the organisers will reserve the right to neutralise or stop the race.
Riders are asked to respect the local area and especially to refrain from a ‘natural break’ in view of houses or public. Toilets available at the sign on area.
No parking on the course circuit.
