Rockstar Games may primarily be a game development company, but they have their toes dipped in a number of other business branches as well — good thing too, since they haven't been doing a lot of "developing" for the past three years beyond GTA Online updates. One such branch is professional sports, of all things.
Rockstar Games is the founder and primary sponsor of the Red Hook Criterium Championship Cycling Series, an international multi-rounded professional bicycling race. We've covered last year's series extensively.
The race is pretty much entirely separate from any of Rockstar's gaming related exploits, though GTA V fans who were interested in the championship did propose the idea of holding an in-game GTA Online event focused on bike races — maybe even offering double RP and GTA $?
This year's Red Hook will be making the same stops as last year, so the circuits will be familiar to returning competitors. The championship will kick off on the 30th of April in Brooklyn, New York and end on the first of October in Milan. In between, it will hit London on the ninth of July and Barcelona on the 27th of August.
Competitors accumulate points over the course of each circuit, which will be tallied up once the Milan race is scored to determine the winner. The Red Hook is unique because the bikes used in the race have no braking system installed and only one gear. Each course is approximately a kilometer long and all of them are riddled with all kinds of obstacles and turns, forcing the riders to strategize.
