The Halfords Tour Series is an annual series of cycling criterium

Criterium

A criterium, or crit, is a bike race held on a short course , often run on closed-off city center streets....

 races which started in 2009. It is sponsored by cycling retailer Halfords

Halfords

Halfords Group plc is a leading retailer of car parts, car enhancements and bicycles operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Czech Republic and more recently in Poland, although it is currently pulling out of the latter two countries...

 and televised by ITV4

ITV4

ITV4 is a British television station which was launched on 1 November 2005. It is owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc, and is part of the ITV network. The channel has a male-oriented line-up, including sport, cop shows and US comedies and dramas, as well as classic ITV action...

 in the UK. The competition emphasises team effort with individual wins deemed less important.

The races are held over 1 hour of racing plus 5 laps. The team standings for each round are calculated by adding together the positions of the top three riders of each team (5 riders start for each team) and the team with the lowest score wins, and get 10 points for the overall championship. Each team gets 1 point less than the one infront of them, so second gets 9, third gets 8, and so on. In addition, there is the sprint competition. There are three sprints every race, which award 5,4,3,2 and 1 points to the top 5 riders. There is a competition each round, as well as an overall competition for the whole series.

2009 Series

The first series had 10 rounds across England. The first ever round was held in Milton Keynes, and the final round was held in Southend. Halfords BikeHut had the strongest team, made up largely of powerful sprinters who were suited to the criteriums. Few of the circuits were hilly, which was seen to aid Halfords.

2010 Series

The series was now sponsored by Halfords, who no longer had their own team. There were again 10 rounds, including the round at Durham with its steep cobbled climb. This time Motorpoint, led by veteran Malcolm Elliot came out as victors, with Malcolm himself winning in Durham.

2011 Series

The series was cut to only 8 rounds. The early stages were dominated by Rapha Condor-Sharp who won all of the first four rounds, both individually and as a team. This run was broken by Team Endura in the next two rounds, firstly winning the individual race, and then in the 6th round in Oldham, winning individually and overall.

Rounds

Round	Date	Location	Team winner	Individual winner	Sprint winner
1	24 May	Durham Durham Durham is a city in north east England. It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county...	Rapha Condor-Sharp	Zak Dempster	Kristian House Kristian House Kristian House is a British racing cyclist who rides for the Rapha Condor team. He was the 2009 British Road Race Champion. He has raced in Europe and Australia. He rode for Great Britain in UCI World Cup track events...
2	26 May	Aberystwyth Aberystwyth Aberystwyth is a historic market town, administrative centre and holiday resort within Ceredigion, Wales. Often colloquially known as Aber, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Ystwyth and Rheidol....	Rapha Condor-Sharp	Ed Clancy Ed Clancy Edward Clancy MBE is an English professional track and road bicycle racer who rides for the team. On the track his specialist discipline is the pursuit. He won the first stage of the 2005 Tour of Berlin. He also won 2007 team pursuit world championship...	Kristian House Kristian House Kristian House is a British racing cyclist who rides for the Rapha Condor team. He was the 2009 British Road Race Champion. He has raced in Europe and Australia. He rode for Great Britain in UCI World Cup track events...
3	31 May	Peterborough Peterborough Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of in June 2007. For ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire. Situated north of London, the city stands on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea...	Rapha Condor-Sharp	Graham Briggs	Marcel Six
4	2 June	Colchester Colchester Colchester is an historic town and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester in Essex, England.At the time of the census in 2001, it had a population of 104,390. However, the population is rapidly increasing, and has been named as one of Britain's fastest growing towns. As the...	Rapha Condor-Sharp	Dean Downing Dean Downing Dean "Deano" Downing is an English bicycle racer, specialising in road cycling who rides for Rapha Condor-Sharp. He rode for the DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed team in 2006 and is the older brother of the former British champion, Russell Downing...	Jeroen Janssen
5	7 June	Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trent , also called The Potteries is a city in Staffordshire, England, which forms a linear conurbation almost 12 miles long, with an area of . Together with the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke forms The Potteries Urban Area...	Rapha Condor-Sharp	Scott Thwaites	Scott Thwaites
6	9 June	Oldham Oldham Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amid the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, south-southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of the city of Manchester...	Endura Racing Endura Racing Endura Racing are a British UCI Continental cycling team.-Profile:Endura Racing is owned by Endura, a Scottish based cycling clothing company....	Rob Partridge Rob Partridge Rob Partridge is a Welsh professional cyclist from Wrexham, Wales. He represented Wales in the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Inspired after watching the Tour de France on television, he joined the Wrexham Roads Club at an early age...	Rob Partridge Rob Partridge Rob Partridge is a Welsh professional cyclist from Wrexham, Wales. He represented Wales in the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Inspired after watching the Tour de France on television, he joined the Wrexham Roads Club at an early age...
7	14 June	Woking Woking Woking is a large town and civil parish that shares its name with the surrounding local government district, located in the west of Surrey, UK. It is part of the Greater London Urban Area and the London commuter belt, with frequent trains and a journey time of 24 minutes to Waterloo station....	Endura Racing Endura Racing Endura Racing are a British UCI Continental cycling team.-Profile:Endura Racing is owned by Endura, a Scottish based cycling clothing company....	Ian Wilkinson Ian Wilkinson (cyclist) Ian Wilkinson is an elite racing cyclist from Barnoldswick in Lancashire who rides for Endura Racing. A prolific rider, he competes at the top level in cross country and marathon mountain bike racing, cyclo-cross, circuit and road racing. He is a multiple national champion, winning championships...	Steve Lampier
8	16 June	Canary Wharf Canary Wharf Canary Wharf is a major business district located in London, United Kingdom. It is one of London's two main financial centres, alongside the traditional City of London, and contains many of the UK's tallest buildings, including the second-tallest , One Canada Square...		Jonny McEvoy	Jonny McEvoy
Series winners			Rapha Condor-Sharp	none	Steve Lampier