Legendary British road race axed in another blow to domestic racing

Hampshire’s Perfs Pedal race will not continue into 2024 domestic road season

Jack Rootkin-Gray, the winner of the 2023 Perfs Pedal race, leading at the Lancaster GP
Jack Rootkin-Gray, the winner of the 2023 Perfs Pedal race, leading at the Lancaster GP
(Image credit: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com)

The British domestic road calendar will be one more race short in 2024 after the organiser of Perfs Pedal road race announced that it would not continue into next season.

First held in 1964, Perfs Pedal became an institution and eventually took place as the unofficial curtain raiser to the men’s domestic season.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.