The wine road

The race that opens the season, a stage awaited all winter long, a competition that we want to believe that everyone has been thinking about continuously and in which everyone wants to prove that they have become cyclists......over the winter. It is a moment of truth for many cyclists, triathletes, amateurs or professionals to test their parameters for entering the season.

The start will be given this time (to avoid the emotions and small accidents of a festive mass start, on the descent) on the flat, after the descent ends and the road turns right at a 90-degree angle. The movement from the top of the climb at Crama Seciu, where at the end of the 110km-long tour and the 62km-short tour will be the arrival, to the festive start area, will be done on your own, without rushing, without anything organized. The festive start will be followed by the technical one, 1km later, on foot.

The finish will be at the end of 4 and a half circuit laps, and 2 and a half for the short lap, as I mentioned, at Crama Seciu. What has changed compared to last year: the competitors in the long lap will climb the final climb 5 times, and the competitors in the short lap 3 times.

Just as the Road Grand Tour season closes with the Eroica, perhaps the toughest road race of the season, we want to open it in an equally heroic way, with the Drumul Vinului. If you feel like it, let it be, at least let's have a drink close by :)