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 Collection, males’s and ladies’s points-based, criterium-style races owned and operated by the Nationwide Biking League.
The Miami Nights gained the inaugural three-event race sequence in 2023, with the Denver Disruptors taking second total with an enormous factors lead over the third-placed mixed workforce of Goldman Sachs ETFs Racing (girls) and Texas Roadhouse Biking (males). New to the lineup is the brand new Atlanta Rise franchise, which can also be owned by the NCL, and the ladies’s squad, Boneshaker p/b Orange Seal, paired with Voler Manufacturing unit Racing p/b Schnur Racing.
Of the 5 returning groups with collaborations, the CCB p/b Levin Legislation Group (girls) and Basis Biking (males) is the one different combo workforce that completed within the high 5 and earned greater than 100 factors in a complete rating, the ladies’s workforce accounting for almost all of the factors.
“After a season of getting a really feel for the distinctive new format in 2023, we’re wanting to compete within the 2024 NCL Cup sequence. It is necessary to us to companion with occasions that put males’s and ladies’s competitors equally within the highlight,” mentioned Lauren LeClaire, sports activities director for CCB p/b Levine Legislation Group.
“The sequence dietary supplements our race calendar completely to assist the expansion of our athletes, placing them in racing conditions that require lightning-fast choices on the highway that lead to 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 this time from the NCL, no schedule had been launched publicly. Final yr, the NCL Cup Collection 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 occurred on back-to-back weekends in August in Denver, Colorado and Atlanta, Georgia. For the reason that NCL owns groups within the three cities the place the inaugural NCL Cup Collection was held final yr, it’s anticipated those self same cities will return on the 2024 calendar.
The NCL Cup Collection 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 girls’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 sequence’ races provided a $30,000 prize purse. Groups within the total 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 workforce hospitality and its financial construction highlights NCL’s forward-thinking method, which is nice for the game, sponsors, and groups like Voler Manufacturing unit Racing,” mentioned Phil Mooney of Voler Manufacturing unit Racing p/b Schnur Racing, which completed eighth total final yr in partnership with girls’s workforce Roxo Racing. This yr, Voler Manufacturing unit males’s workforce will compete in tandem with Boneshaker p/b Orange Seal girls’s workforce.
