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Originally Posted by radio times
It's been a good year for blightonian wheeled sport. Apart from Lewis, we had a London lad winning the Giro D'Italia race (2nd only to the Tour de France), and a lad from Lancashire came third in the Tour of Spain. I prefer pro cycling as it's always the man and not the machine.
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Congrats to LH. Not to take anything away, but he has had a clearly superior machine in the years he has won and the #2 driver for Mercedes, in the same machine, was never really his equal. Once or twice a Ferrari or Renault powered machine was competitive on & off, but never with the consistently top performance of Mercedes. Would be nice to see Ford return to a serious effort in F1 and offer Mercedes a run for their money.
Yep, the Brits have done very well in cycling over the past several years in both the epic races (GC & sprints). Interesting winner in the TdF this year and the young South Americans are doing better. Speaking of cycling, it is one of the preferred forms of athletic work by many motorized sports drivers. A couple of them have either died (Hayden of F1 motorcycles) or been badly hurt in accidents with cars.
Hopefully, all of us will have a better year in 2021 and things will get back to something more akin to normal, whatever that is.