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Final Closing Date For FBD Insurance Rás 2010 Sunday 7th. March
Final closing date for county teams booking a place in this year’s FBD RÁS is SUNDAY 7th MARCH.
Please return a completed Team Application Form before Sunday otherwise a place in the RÁS cannot be guaranteed
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Wexford Team
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| Wexford Team Cycle Rally |
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Earpiece Radios Banned By UCI
The use of earpiece radios will be banned from this year’s FBD RÁS 8 Day International Cycle Race which will take to the roads of Ireland from 23rd to 30th May. Although now a feature in all major international races allowing team managers, usually also equipped with TV facilities, constant communication with their riders the radios have not always met with universal approval. More>>>
2010 Alexander Wetterhall Sprocket Promotions Sweden Wins FBD Insurance Rás
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| Alexander Wetterhall Sprocket Promotions Sweden Wins The 2010 FBD Insurance Rás |
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FBD Insurance Rás 2010 Final Overall Results
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Corrabut Gap County Carlow
According to rumours in cycling circles the peace and tranquillity of the beautiful Corrabut Gap in county Wicklow will gave way to the pounding hearts and gasping lungs of the riders in next year’s FBD RÁS. While the race organisation would not confirm nor deny the rumours it is known the 2010 route will be anti-clockwise which could mean Wicklow will be included.
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Colm Cullen Gets Man Of The Rás Award 2009
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| Adrian Taheny Director Of Marketing & Sales FBD Insurance Pcl., Garda Colm Cullen Chief Marshall Receives The Man Of The Rás Award From Race Director Dermot Dignam FBD Insurance Rás |
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Dates for 2010 FBD Insurance Rás Announced
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| Dermot Dignam Announces He Is Stepping Down As Race Director After 31 Years |
The FBD Insurance RÁS will take place next year from 23rd to 30th May, it will once again be included on the UCI, Union Cycliste Internationale, elite calendar of international events.
2010 will be the 58th anniversary of the RÁS and will also be the 27th year for FBD Insurance to be involved as sponsor.
Announcing the dates, Dermot Dignam also confirmed that following the 2010 event he will be stepping down as race organiser, a voluntary position he has held for the past thirty one years. Dignam had indicated that this year’s race would be his last but after discussions with Cycling Ireland and FBD agreed to stay on for the 2010 event.
The race has achieved a world wide reputation as a fiercely competitive event with a unique mix of professional, international and county riders battling it out over the roads of Ireland each May.
Dignam has the height of praise for the Irish county riders “it’s unbelievable the level of fitness the county riders achieve to compete in a race of this calibre and in actual fact it’s these riders who put it up to the international and pro teams by aggressive racing”. More>>>
Tony Martin FBD Insurance Rás Winner 2007
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| TONY MARTIN – since winning the FBD RÁS in 2007 his achievements include |
Young Riders Jersey holder - Tour de France
Mountains Classification - Paris-Nice
Stage Winner and Mountains Classification - Tour de Suisse
TT Stage Winner, Criterium International
2nd on the Tour de France Mont Ventoux stage.
And a fantastic performance in winning the Bronze Medal in the recent World Championship Time Trial.
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The Men Of The 2009 FBD Insurance Rás
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| Simon Richardson Rapha Condor Overall Winner Of The FBD Insurance Rás 2009 |
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