Lost Races: Bordeaux-Paris

6.0

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 58 min
Premiere: 2022. September 27.

Director: Harry Dowdney
Writer: Harry Dowdney
Starring: Mitch Docker Sam Bewley

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’?