Conn McDunphy will ride with EvoPro Racing until the end of this season, with a series of European races to take in before the National Road Championships.
He will ride a combination of some Belgian kermesse races
and one-day race roads in both France and Belgium in the build-up to the Irish championships
in early October before hopefully finishing the season at the Chrono des Nations TT in France.
The 24-year-old, who won the Irish elite TT title last
year, has already made his debut for Irish Continental team EvoPro.
He competed in Grote Prijs Marcel Kint (1.1) at the weekend in Belgium – won by Álvaro José Hodeg (Deceuninck-QuickStep) after 196km of racing – where he was on team duties.
McDunphy has been riding for CC
Nogent sur Oise in France in recent seasons but now, along with fellow Irish
rider Dillon Corkery, he joins EvoPro Racing as a stagiaire for the remainder
of the 2021 campaign.
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It is not his first time riding for a UCI Continental
team as he rode for Team Raleigh GAC for much of the 2017 season, before going
on to ride for Holdsworth Pro Racing in 2018.
However, his step back up to Continental level is a real
achievement considering he suffered a crash just under a year ago, while racing
in France, which could have ended his career.
After winning the Irish elite TT title in Co Limerick
last September, McDunphy returned to race in France and suffered a serious
injury to his skull when he was knocked out in a racing crash.
After a prolonged period in a rigid body brace he was able
to get back out onto the road and returned to racing this year.
So far this season he has been 8th overall at
the Tour de Loiret, a four-stage race in France, claimed 2nd in the
Championnat Nouvelle-Aquitaine TT and was 4th at GP Fernand Durel
the week before last.
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