Lost Races: Bordeaux-Paris
Lost Races: Bordeaux-Paris

Lost Races: Bordeaux-Paris

September 27, 2022 | 58 min

Bordeaux-Paris was the best bike race you’ve never heard of: a midnight start, 550km-long, and ridden behind motorised ‘dernys’, with winners including Jacques Anquetil and Tom Simpson. More than thirty years since Bordeaux-Paris was last raced, pro cyclists Mitch Docker and Sam Bewley are aiming to recreate the infamous 1965 edition. How will they fare at the ‘Derby of the Road’?

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Naomi Scott

Mitch Docker

Naomi Scott

Sam Bewley

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