How to watch gravel races around the world – A guide to livestreams and free broadcasts for the biggest events including The Traka, Unbound Gravel and more

Need to catch the motion from lots of the world’s most audacious and outstanding gravel races with out getting the dust and dirt splashed in your face? This wasn’t even an possibility two years in the past. Organisers at the moment are including dwell broadcasts to increase their attain to a rising world viewers.

Early adopters for dwell streaming included US races Unbound Gravel 200 in Kansas and Gravel Worlds in Nebraska. In 2022, three of the Life Time Grand Prix occasions – Sea Otter Fuego XC, Unbound Gravel 200 and Crusher within the Tushar – tried broadcasts however distant programs led to technical challenges which precipitated Life Time to drag the plug and solely use social media posts for the ultimate occasions.

By 2024, Lauf Gravel Worlds offered a strong dwell stream for the professional fields on the 150-mile race in Nebraska, which acquired roughly 51,000 views. They proved that expertise to observe the motion on tough, secluded roads had superior from stationary cameras mounted to jeeps to prolonged flight-time drones, and folks had been starved for real-time protection.

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„Not way back, gravel racing lived in tales advised on the end line. Lately, if you happen to weren’t there, you solely noticed glimpses by means of Instagram dwell streams or story updates. Bringing dwell protection to the game with the unimaginable BCC Reside broadcast group modified that,“ Sofia Gibson, assistant lead promoter of Lauf Gravel Worlds advised Cyclingnews.

„Followers now see the work required not solely to win, however merely to complete a race like Gravel Worlds. That visibility pushes the game ahead whereas inspiring the following technology of riders.“

Final yr The Traka 360 had intensive protection with a dwell stream of greater than 10 hours which generated 71,000 views. The dwell, free-to-stream protection of the Life Time Unbound Gravel 200 occasion attracted 332,000 views in 50 international locations for a broadcast that lasted roughly seven hours, video kicking in 4 hours into the race and remaining dwell for all professional males’s and girls’s finishes.

And whereas The Growler at Levi’s GranFondo shouldn’t be a full-on off-road race, the roads are uneven and the sector is stacked with high gravel execs who transfer from Sea Otter Basic on Thursday to this occasion one week later in Windsor, California. There will likely be greater than 100 males and 70 girls competing for a share of a $156,000 purse, elite males begin at 7:15 a.m. PDT and elite girls subsequent at 7:18 a.m. PDT.

Using dwell monitoring as riders cross checkpoints and social channels to offer segmented dwell footage and on-course updates are nonetheless a part of the panorama, nevertheless. Keep tuned to Cyclingnews as we offer frequent updates on which occasions will provide dwell feeds for off-road races world wide.

Life Time Grand Prix

4 of the six races on this yr’s Life Time Grand Prix will present dwell protection for the 2026 season, starting with Sea Otter Basic gravel race on Thursday, April 16. The Monterey, California race takes place on a 30-mile course, with broadcast cameras following the boys’s and girls’s fields for all three circuits. The elite males begin at 10:00 a.m. PDT and the elite girls begin at 10:30 a.m. PDT.

Organisers Life Time used help from Orange Seal final yr for broadcasts at signature occasions Unbound Gravel 200, Leadville Path 100 MTB and the finale at Huge Sugar Basic, and people return later within the season utilizing a number of cameras on and off the course in addition to cameras aloft.

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„It’s superb to see helicopters and drones following races like Unbound and Huge Sugar. It’s one thing I by no means imagined in gravel simply 5 years in the past,“ former Unbound Gravel 200 winner Lauren De Crescenzo advised Cyclingnews final yr.

Sea Otter Basic launches the fifth season of the Life Time Grand Prix, with the invitation-only area, U23 riders and wild playing cards on the lookout for priceless factors to set the leaderboard.

Particulars on the trio of dwell streams for Grand Prix stops in Kansas, Colorado and Missouri will likely be confirmed later within the season. Final yr the Unbound broadcast joined the elite races in progress at 10 a.m. CDT with practically eight hours of racing motion, Cameron Jones (Scott-Shimano) profitable the elite males’s race and Karolina Migoń (PAS Racing) taking the ladies’s title.

Gravel Earth Sequence

The Gravel Earth Sequence leads the way in which with dwell streaming for all 11 of their occasions, a promise that was stored at Santa Vall for each days of the two-stage occasion close to Girona, Spain. The sequence options 11 occasions in six international locations, with dwell protection proven on the official video platform at GravelEarthSeries.TV.

The following broadcast is scheduled for The Hills on March 28 for the 120km (74.5-mile) in Sardegna, Italy. Elite males will start at 8:30 a.m. CET with elite girls off the beginning line 10 minutes later.

On April 11 Gravel Desert will likely be featured from Huesca, Spain, then each days of The Traka, the 200km and 360km races, will likely be broadcast on Might 1-2.

Each days of Santa Vall had been broadcast, becoming a member of the elite girls’s race in progress, half-hour after the begins every day, and captured the boys’s begins, which passed off an hour after the ladies. Replays of each phases are archived on the web site, with Sofia Gomez Villafañe profitable each phases and the GC for ladies, and her teammate Mads Würtz Schmidt profitable stage 1 and the boys’s GC.

Broadcast schedule for gravel races in April 2026