RED BULL TIME LAPS
THE WORLD'S LONGEST RACE DAY
Red Bull Timelaps is a stamina filled road bike race consisting of teams of four battling against the clock, challenging riders to accumulate as much distance as possible within 25 hours. In the event’s trademark twist, at 02:00 BST a ‘Power Hour’ is activated when the clocks go back to 01:00 UTC, the course route changes to reveal a stunning illuminated trail. During this hour, riders’ points are doubled in order to boost their team’s place on the leader board.
scope
Full Technical Support
- Temporary site power
- Site lighting
- Huge architectural lighting package
- Fuel management
- 25 hour tech cover!
scale
- 14 Road Tow Generators
- 168 Exterior lighting fixtures
- 28 custom battery lighting packs
- 20 exterior speakers
challenges
- 28 remote checkpoints required basic course lighting for safety purposes and stewarding. Our solution...deep cycle leisure battery packs coupled with high quality LED 12v spots on microp! Simple...but very effective and environmentally friendly.
- The whole event needed to be deployed, and removed in a very short time frame. Furthermore, the full 25hr race period required full technical support in between this.
client comments
"There are few companies that we would trust to deliver the temporary power solution on a bespoke event like this and the team from Figure of Eight are at the top of the pile! Everything was deployed and pulled back on time with a huge degree of flexibility when the inevitable changes needed to happen. Nothing was a problem and everything worked faultlessly...what more could you want from your power provider?"
BEN FRITH
WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE
We are often asked to recommend local hire companies. Figure of Eight Events are always top of my list. They always deliver us the perfect solution, regardless of the scale of production.