New to watching, keep hearing people talk about tomorrow’s race being a “flag to flag” and to me that just sounds like any race since there’s a green starting flag and checkered finish flag. What am I misunderstanding?

  • Corngood
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    7 months ago

    I was trying to find a good reference but all I could find was bloated SEO garbage.

    I think the deal is that a flag-to-flag race is not red flagged when it starts to rain. Instead the riders can switch bikes, which is not normally allowed.

  • macrocephalic@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I agree that technically all races are flag to flag, but yes, when they say “flag to flag” they mean a wet race where the riders are allowed to change bikes when conditions change - instead of just stopping the race.