A mid-summer classic including everything from a special Concours on Friday and Saturday along the streets of Elkhart Lake and a special Triumph sports car racer reunion makes the 2023 event a can't miss spectacle for any racing enthusiast. Widely known as one of the largest vintage racecar gatherings in the United States, featuring over 50 classes of cars racing in several groups, The WeatherTech International Challenge with Brian Redman will return on July 13-16, 2023. Road America recently announced that the Kastner Cup would be the featured marque of the 2023 WeatherTech International Challenge with Brian Redman. While these sessions will be valuable tools to improve your racing my final bit of advice would be to get out there and give it a go.Road America Announces Featured Marque for the Weathertech International Challenge With Brian Redman in 2023Augby Road America
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In these sprints try to vary the terrain and gear selection to get an idea of how to approach a sprint in any situation be it an uphill slog to the line or a fast tailwind sprint where you will be maxing out your gear selection. These should be maximal efforts and five sprints will be a good amount to begin with. This can be done within an easy ride simply by sprinting as hard as possible for around 10 seconds (don’t focus on the watch, pick a point a suitable distance away and go for it like it was the finish line on the Champs Elysees!) and recovering by riding very easily for 5-10 minutes in between. To develop a strong finishing sprint we need to look at training more like a track sprinter – all out maximal efforts interspersed with long recovery periods to fully restore your creatine phosphate stores and maintain a high sprint quality. While born sprinters are a rare breed of fast-twitching muscle men and women, anyone can train to improve their sprint, even those of us who are less genetically gifted in the fast-twitch area! While the repeated sprint workouts we have discussed are useful for you to be able to finish in the front of a circuit race field and are also useful for where you will need to do one or two ‘mini sprints’ in order to maintain your position in the bunch before unleashing your main sprint to the line, they are not so good for developing an all-out fast sprint.Īn uphill sprint can be demanding. Many circuit races and criteriums, especially in beginner’s races will end up in a bunch sprint. Rest for 5-10 minutes and then repeat this set of sprints for a good, criterium-specific workout. This session might look like a 10-15s sprint followed by 10s braking hard and freewheeling to reduce your speed enough to turn in the road then another 10-15s maximal effort sprint repeated ten times.
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This helps you to develop a tight turning circle on the bike while cornering, as well as repeated sprints from a near standing start, which are great for tight city centre type criterium racing as seen in events such as the Nocturne Series races. If you’re unable to find a suitable circuit to practice your cornering on, an alternative is to use a quiet road and practice sprinting before turning in the road (don’t put your foot down!) and sprinting hard again immediately.
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Start off by sprinting for one side out of the four and gradually increase this so that soon you are sprinting out of every corner for 10-20s to get up to speed before cruising to the next one.Ĭircuit racing, cornering diagram, pic: ©Tom Kirk First of all get comfortable with the corners then practice carrying your speed into a corner and accelerating hard out of it.
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To start with, choose a square or rectangular circuit with left turns for safety (most UK races will obviously contain mainly left turns). A great way to practice for this specifically is on a quiet circuit such as an industrial estate or business park during a quiet period of the day with little to no traffic. One of the key difficulties in circuit racing is coping with the technical courses and repeated slowing and reaccelerating this creates. I will now suggest and explain more ways to train specifically for the demands of circuit racing at high speed on a tight circuit.
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While the average intensity may be lower than a time trial these are characterised by large spikes in power interspersed with recovery periods – unless you win solo! pic: ©Tom KirkĪs we discussed in the first article in this series, sessions designed to develop your peak power and repeatability of maximal efforts are crucial in this type of racing.
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Criteriums or circuit races often last a similar length of time to a time trial but display a very different pattern.