Bicentenario Velodrome

This fast wooden track sits under a white fabric roof, high up in the middle of Mexico. The air up here is thin, so it holds the riders back less. Many world records have been broken on this track.

One lap: 250 m
Track: Wood
Banking in the bends: 42°
Banking on the straights: 12°
Width: 7 m
Indoor or outdoor: Indoor
Built: 2010
People who can watch: About 2,500

Did you know?

This velodrome opened in 2010, two hundred years after Mexico began its fight to be free. Bicentenario means two hundred years!
This track is almost two kilometres above the sea. Up here the air is thinner, so it pushes back less on the riders. That makes them faster!
In 2019, Victor Campenaerts of Belgium broke the hour record here. He rode more than fifty-five kilometres in one hour!
Vittoria Bussi of Italy was the first woman to ride more than fifty kilometres in one hour. She did it right here, in 2023!
In 2013, François Pervis of France broke two sprint world records here, on two days in a row!
The roof of this velodrome is made of white fabric, like a giant tent.

The race announcer tells riders these facts at Bicentenario Velodrome.

Race at Bicentenario Velodrome

In Watt Fighters you race here on your own bike, on a smart trainer or with a power meter. Your watts move your rider round the track. On the steep bends you need speed, or you slide down the banking. You can race every event here: match sprint, elimination, points race, scratch race, unknown distance, time trial, keirin, flying 200 m, open track.

Race here in Watt Fighters

Bicentenario Velodrome

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Race at Bicentenario Velodrome

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