You are reading a single comment by @hippy and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
There are rules about support cars in CTT. They limit how often the car is allowed to pass a rider and you get get feeds from cars - it has to be a supporter on foot.
RAAM has a huge amount of rules for support cars - how many, how many drivers, sections of the route where the cars have to leapfrog, sections where they have to follow with their lights on... yada yada
Unsupported ultras are by definition not allowed to involve your own cars. If you gain draft advantage (and everybody does) from passing cars, it's hardly going to make enough difference in an ultra to implement rules about it and who would police it?
hippy
I have no idea about supported ultras, but I don't believe there is a rule in CTT.
Here's the RAAM rules:
https://www.raamrace.org/_files/ugd/49fb96_827b7e7cf8164604884e2c2594e1cc7d.pdf
I don't see anything on a quick skim.
I expect UMCA / RAAM probably follow UCI in a lot of stuff, but presumably the impacts are a lot lower at RAAM speeds than world tour speeds, and RAAM is not decided by a few seconds here and there, so probably not a pressing matter for them.