Routes / Cyclocross / Zolder Circuit
ZOLDER CIRCUIT
CYCLOCROSS25 DECMUDBELGIUMCYCLOCROSS · HEUSDEN-ZOLDER
ROUND THE MOTOR CIRCUIT AND ITS SAND
LAP2.87 KM
CLIMBING+33 M
OBSTACLES3
CORNERS30
TIGHTESTR 3 M
RIDERS0
THE LAP
sand 1,239 m asphalt 755 m grass 646 m woods 233 m an obstacle
THE COURSE
- HOST
- Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
- WORLD CUP
- Not on the World Cup since 2022-23: one of the classics.
- RACE DAY
- 25 DEC: usually muddy.
- SETTING
- A motor racing circuit.
- SECTIONS
- The circuit straight (from 0 m), The pit (from 273 m), The Sacramentsberg (from 756 m), The sandy infield (from 1124 m), The trees by the circuit (from 1499 m), The circuit straight (from 1870 m), The sand hill (from 2180 m), The start straight (from 2677 m)
3 OBSTACLES
| Obstacle | At | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| THE PIT | 308 m | The double pit: a clean bike, once a lap |
| DESCENT | 1458 m | A steep drop |
| DESCENT | 2541 m | A steep drop |
30 bends round the stakes as well, everyone braking into them: the tightest, R 3 m, at 15 km/h at most.
HOW IT'S RACED
CROSS RACE
So many laps of a cyclocross course from a mass start, first over the line wins. Lapped riders are pulled.
- 1 to 10 laps, 3 unless you choose.
- A mass start on the start straight, from the grid: you and the robots in the game, or people in a group ride, robots filling the field.
- Lapped riders are pulled: lose a lap to the leaders and you're out, behind everyone still racing.
- On the stairs, the run-ups and the deepest sand everyone jumps off and runs, the bike on the shoulder: your power buys a running pace of up to 12 km/h, 8 on the stairs.
- The bends cap your speed as a crit's corners do: 18 km/h round a 4 m hairpin. On a trainer the speed is capped, never the power, and the trainer feels the grass, the mud and the sand.
- If your trainer or connection drops, you get one free lap: back in at the rear. Never in the last 3 laps.
LEADERBOARD
The best lap: one lap of the course from a standing start on the line (no race chosen in the game). A race's laps never go on the board.
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