Tour Series 2011: Cycling Weekly's coverage index

By Cycling Weekly

1-Jun-2011 | 0 comments

Welcome to Cycling Weekly's coverage of the Tour Series 2011, which kicked off in Durham on Tuesday, May 24.

This page serves as a hub for all of our coverage of the 2011 event, from reports and exclusive rider blogs; from latest news to photo galleries from top cycling photographer Andy Jones.

Tour Series 2011: Race Introduction
Unlike the majority of other races, the Tour Series is primarily a team-based event, with the squad who has the lowest culmulative score for their first three riders across the line winning each round.

Individual glory is still on offer, and as such each race is battled out to the death, but the Tour Series requires even more teamwork and arguably greater tactical prowess than other events on the domestic calendar.

Consistency is also needed to take the overall victory; Rapha-Condor-Sharp have consistently taken individual and round victories, yet have never scored highly at all ten rounds.

Motorpoint won last year's Tour Series, with the inaugural title going to Halfords BikeHut.

Motorpoint win overall, Tour Series 2010 round 10 Woking

Motorpoint-Marshalls Pasta, 2010 Tour Series winners

Tour Series 2011: Rounds

Round	Date	Location	Winner/report	Photos
One	Tuesday, May 24	Durham	Rapha-Condor-Sharp	>>>>>
Two	Thursday, May 26	Aberystwyth	Rapha-Condor-Sharp	>>>>>
Three	Tuesday, May 31	Peterborough*	Rapha-Condor-Sharp	>>>>>
Four	Thursday, June 2	Colchester	Rapha-Condor-Sharp
Five	Tuesday, June 7	Stoke-on-Trent*	Rapha-Condor-Sharp	>>>>>
Six	Thursday, June 9	Oldham*	Endura Racing	>>>>>
Seven	Tuesday, June 14	Woking*	Endura Racing	>>>>>
Eight	Thursday, June 16	Canary Wharf	Motorpoint

(* Features a round of the Women's Tour Series)

Tour Series 2011: Rider blogs
Round one, Durham: Ian Wilkinson (Endura Racing)
Round two, Aberystwyth: Andy Tennant (Rapha-Condor-Sharp)
Round three, Peterborough: Simon Wilson (Cycle Premier-Metaltek)
Round four, Colchester: Steve Lampier (Sigma Sport-Specialized)
Round five, Stoke-on-Trent: Jeroen Janssen (Team Raleigh)
Round six, Oldham: James Stewart (Team UK Youth)
Round seven, Woking: Chris Opie (Pendragon-Le Col-Colnago)
Round eight, Canary Wharf: Pete Williams (Motorpoint Pro Cycling)

Tour Series 2011: TV Coverage
ITV4 will once again be showing hour-long highlights of each round 24 hours after they take place.

Presented by Ned Boulting, viewers won't miss a second of the important action, and will also see highlights of the Women's GP Series, which will be held before the men's race at Peterborough, Stoke-on-Trent, Oldham and Woking.

Tour Series 2011, round one, Durham

ITV4 is available on Freeview (Channel 24), Freesat (Channel 117), Sky (Channel 120), Virgin Media (Channel 118) and online via www.itv.com/itv4.

The broadcaster's on-demand service ITV Player service will also have the coverage available to watch online at a later date.

TV Schedule

Round	Race date	Location	Highlights broadcast date	Highlights repeat date
One	Tuesday, May 24	Durham	8pm, Wednesday, May 25	11am, Thursday, May 26
Two	Thursday, May 26	Aberystwyth	8pm, Friday, May 27	9.50am, Saturday, May 28
Three	Tuesday, May 31	Peterborough	8pm, Wednesday, June 1	10.45am, Thursday, June 2
Four	Thursday, June 2	Colchester	8pm, Friday, June 3	9.40am, Saturday, June 4
Five	Tuesday, June 7	Stoke-on-Trent	8pm, Wednesday, June 8	11am, Thursday, June 9
Six	Thursday, June 9	Oldham	8pm, Friday, June 10	11am, Saturday, June 11
Seven	Tuesday, June 14	Woking	8pm, Wednesday, June 15	10.40am, Thursday, June 16
Eight	Thursday, June 16	Canary Wharf	8pm, Friday, June 17	9.40am, Saturday, June 18