Tiny Race Series – July 1 Routes and Last Week’s Results

Last week’s races on Worlds Courses were real butt-kickers. As top IRL cyclists took on Nationals around the world, we took on Worlds… from our homes!

This week we’ve got a new theme, but first a shout out to the ladies, who made a good showing last week with Na Tomi (TMR) taking the overall win in Zone 1 C while Duonporn Daffner (Race3R) raced all three zones and took the overall win in Zone 2 D!

This Week’s Races: Vive le Tour!

Le Tour de France 2023 kicks off Saturday, so we chose routes based in Zwift’s France and Paris maps to celebrate the world’s greatest cycling race. Allez allez!

• Race 1: Douce France (7.047km – ends at Ballon sprint banner)
  This rolling, twisty route will take you flying through Les Intestins and over a few rollers before sprinting for the Ballon Sprint arch.
  • Powerup: none
• Race 2: Lutece Express (7.22km – ends on climb after passing start pens)
  Our first time racing this route, we’ll do just over 1 lap’s worth of riding, finishing partway up the climb after we pass the start pens.
  • Powerup: Draft Boost (2x)
• Race 3: Ven-Top (3.1km – ends about 100m past intersection with Petit KOM road)
  The world’s shortest Queen Stage! For the longest climb of the day we turn right from the pens and head straight up France’s Ventoux KOM.
  • Powerup: Feather (1x)
• Race 4: Champs-Elysees (4.52km – ends at Lutece Sprint banner)
  Of course, we’ve got to end in Paris. This time we won’t even complete a full lap… just the lead-in around Jardin des Tuileries, then it’s a hard drag up Montée des Champs Elysées to the sprint banner for the finish.
  • Powerup: Aero Boost (1x)

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ZwiftPower Results

Zwift displays preliminary race results in game when you cross the line, but points are computed after all four races are finished, with final results on ZwiftPower. (We have to do some data processing on our side to compute results, so if your rankings don’t show up right away, be patient.)

Riders will earn points based on finish position in each of the 4 Tiny Races. The category winner of each week’s series is the rider with the most points across their timezone’s 4 races. Here are the links for each timezone’s results on ZwiftPower:

• Zone 1 (9am GMT/5am EDT/2am PDT)
• Zone 2 (3pm GMT/11am EST/8am PDT)
• Zone 3 (9pm GMT/5pm EDT/2pm PDT/Sunday 7am AEST)

Rules

Tiny Race rules are simple, but still every week 7-10% of registered ZwiftPower racers get disqualified and removed from the final results. Don’t let that be you! Four races, four rules:

• You must have a ZwiftPower account, because final results are processed by ZwiftPower (learn how to sign up)
• No skipping then returning. These races are meant to be raced as a set of 4. If you need to leave early, that’s fine… but once you miss a race in your hour’s set of 4, don’t come back and race another or you’ll be disqualified from that race since you rested while others were racing! (Example: racing only races 1 and 2 is fine. Racing 1, 2, and 4 is not – you will be DQ from race 4. And if you race 2, 3, and 4, you’ll be DQ from all those races, since you skipped race 1!)
• Heart rate monitors are required for podium finishers
• ZPower/Virtual power is not allowed. Smart trainer/smart bike or power meter required.

Join a Chat & Chill Cooldown

Immediately following each hour’s racing, we’ve scheduled 30-minute “Chat & Chill” events where riders from all categories can spin their legs together and chat about how it all went down. Find them at zwift.com/events/tag/tinyraces.

Zwift Insider Kit Unlock

Finish any Tiny Race or a Chat & Chill ride and unlock the Zwift Insider “Ride Smarter // Ride Harder” in-game kit.

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