The Rad am Ring is a

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festival held annually at the

Nürburgring The is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long "North loop" track, built in the 1920s, around the village a ...

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since 2003. It features road cycling and mountain bike races, including 24-hour races for each, and a cycling exposition. Since 2016 it features a professional road race, also known in 2016 as the Rudi Altig Race, named after German cyclist

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who won his Road Race World Championship at the Nürburgring and died shortly before the race. The first two editions were a 1.1 event on the

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; since 2018 it is part of the German Bundesliga.

Winners

References

External links

Official website
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