Tour de Yorkshire 2017 final stage 'could be carnage'

Tour de Yorkshire route analysis: Climb-packed last stage will provide an action-packed finale to the three-day race, run over April 28-30

Team Sky at Robin Hood Bay, Tour de Yorkshire 2016 stage three

(Image credit: Andy Jones)

The 2017 Tour de Yorkshire route has everything required for an exciting race, and a worthy one too. The winner will be the best; three humdinger stages, especially the brutal third one, should see to that. Not being a UCI WorldTour race, and therefore much less controllable and predictable, raises the excitement potential as well.

We actually predicted the stages, in correct order, in October this year when the stage towns were announced. The beautiful logic and potential of the route stood out simply from looking at the places it would visit.

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Chris Sidwells
Freelance Journalist & Author

Chris has written thousands of articles for magazines, newspapers and websites throughout the world. He’s written 25 books about all aspects of cycling in multiple editions and translations into at least 25

different languages. He’s currently building his own publishing business with Cycling Legends Books, Cycling Legends Events, cyclinglegends.co.uk, and the Cycling Legends Podcast