THE LAW AND THE RACE CONVOY

BRITISH Cycling has called for a review of the legal status of the race convoy after a driver on the Lincoln Grand Prix was issued with a fixed penalty notice for crossing double white lines and driving on the wrong side of the road.

Although the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case when they learned of the circumstances ? the race was operating under police control ? the affair rang alarm bells at British Cycling.

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