Listed below are the tables exhibiting what number of UCI factors can be found in every street race. It’s not riveting however usually if you wish to know what number of factors are on supply then you definitely go to the UCI web site, discover the foundations web page, obtain the proper PDF rulebook and scroll previous 70 pages for the tables. Right here they’re all on one web page.
Final yr noticed huge adjustments to the scales with the grand excursions, monuments and world championships changing into much more profitable. This yr and within the coming seasons the distinction is the participation guidelines, which Professional Staff qualifies for what.
The desk beneath is for the World Tour races, if it’s a stage race then it’s for the ultimate general classification. You possibly can see the general win within the Tour de France is the only greatest factors haul within the sport, and amongst different issues profitable the Tour Down Underneath is extra beneficial that profitable Itzulia Basque Nation, in line with the rankings:
Subsequent comes the factors per stage within the World Tour stage races. In 2023 this was doubled for the grand excursions, plus throughout all stage races factors get awarded properly past first 5 or prime three as earlier than, it’s right down to fifteenth place or tenth respectively. Win a stage race and stage wins and placings occur alongside the best way so it reinforces the worth of grand excursions:
Subsequent you may see factors on supply for ultimate place within the secondary competitions of a grand tour and different stage races, particularly the mountains and factors competitors:
Subsequent comes a day by day award for main a World Tour stage race, a pleasant bonus however one which’s certainly price extra in publicity than factors however once more with the general win and stage wins it helps compound issues additional, plus it simply makes a day within the maillot jaune or maglia rosa extra beneficial points-wise:
Now comes arguably an important desk right here as a result of it’s for races exterior the World Tour and that is the place groups looking factors can discover rewards due to the breadth of the calendar. We all know the Tour de France has beaucoup factors however the winner isn’t actually targetting them, as an alternative managers of groups attempting stave off relegation or earn promotion will know the desk beneath by coronary heart. Right here profitable a stage race general or profitable a sooner or later brings the identical factors haul, which makes sooner or later races crucial. The season-opening Problem Majorca races are an excellent case examine, they’re every Class 1 races and so win sooner or later’s racing and a rider banks 125 factors, but when it was a stage race solely the ultimate general would convey this many factors:
The subsequent two tables beneath exhibits the factors on supply for levels in non-World Tour races and the day by day factors for main the race too:
Under are the nationwide championships, break up into A and B teams, the place A is outlined as a nation that began a minimum of one rider within the earlier Males’s Elite world championship street race. These factors matter as a result of typically once we have a look at the groups with few wins and placings within the yr, a number of of their greatest outcomes might be from nationwide championships in smaller nations, the type with only some professionals. Generally we’ve seen huge identify riders skip their nationwide championships however smaller groups looking factors ought be paying enterprise class returns for his or her riders to go and seize the jersey and factors:
Now comes the Continental Championships, assume the European championships for the perfect instance. If these championships have a staff time trial and/or a combined relay time trial occasion, the small desk additional beneath additionally applies:
Now for the Worlds and Olympics, huge occasions however the UCI is eager to huge them up much more and they’re essentially the most profitable sooner or later races on the calendar when it comes to factors, 100 greater than a Monument traditional:
For the final of the tables, right here’s the combined relay time trial on the worlds which the UCI is eager on selling, it’s 300 factors however that is divided by the three males, so 100 factors every (after all the ladies get 100 every too):
Find out how to forfeit factors
Riders can lose factors too. The UCI guidelines embody penalties for unhealthy behaviour and a few include factors deductions. They concern dishonest like taking short-cut, to utilizing sidewalks, ignoring level-crossing pink lights, littering and different misdemeanours, proper right down to failing to signal on for the day’s racing or present up for the post-race press convention if invited. Any staff supervisor nervous about scoring factors ought to remind riders of all of those.
Rankings and factors don’t matter…
…in the event that they did then they’d be available, simply understood and we’d discuss them extra typically. Nonetheless, promotion and relegation from the World Tour is an enormous deal as an “inside” matter. The one change for 2024 is that whereas invites for the grand excursions go to the 2 top-ranked Professional Groups of the earlier season (Lotto-Dstny and IPT) and two discretionary “wildcards”, these two wildcards can solely go to a staff within the top-50 the earlier season, in 2024 it’ll be prime 40 and crucially in 2026 the top-30 which suggests a stretch purpose for the likes of present groups like Euskaltel-Euskadi or Corratec. Within the coming days we’ll have a look at how these factors are used to make particular person and staff rankings and the stakes in 2024 and past…
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