Watch the Team Ineos Zwift eRace live on Cyclingnews

By Kirsten Frattini
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Froome, Bernal, Thomas and teammates race each other on Alpe du Zwift climb at 5pm BST

Team Ineos will host their first-ever race on the virtual platform Zwift and you can watch the head-to-head battle live on Cyclingnews on Sunday, April 12 at 5pm BST / 12pm EDT. 

The British WorldTour team's has been divided into six mini-teams led by Tour de France champions Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas, Egan Bernal, along with Giro d'Italia winner Richard Carapaz, former world champion Michal Kwiatkowski and Tao Geoghegan Hart.

Team Ineos will begin the day with eRides that will start at 3pm BST / 10am EDT where Zwifters can join a host of the team's riders on a Watopia route.

The team said that the rides will take approximately 40 minutes to an hour on a route suitable for all ability categories A - D on Zwift, and that Team Ineos riders will join each group ride.

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Later the same day, Team Ineos will then go head-to-head in a six-heat race starting at 5pm BST / 12pm EDT and fans will be able to watch a live streaming of the event on Cyclingnews.

Team Ineos will field six mini-teams that will race against each other up the 12km Alpe du Zwift climb.

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Kirsten Frattini
Kirsten Frattini
Women's Editor

Kirsten Frattini is an honours graduate of Kinesiology and Health Science from York University in Toronto, Canada. She has been involved in cycling from the community and grassroots level to professional cycling's WorldTour. She has worked in both print and digital publishing, and started with Cyclingnews as a North American Correspondent in 2006. Moving into a Production Editor's role in 2014, she produces and publishes international race coverage for all men's and women's races including Spring Classics, Grand Tours, World Championships and Olympic Games, and writes and edits news and features. As the Women's Editor at Cyclingnews, Kirsten also coordinates and oversees the global coverage of races, news, features and podcasts about women's professional cycling.