Pre-registrations will be open on 14/01/2023 at noon (Paris time)[for those with 1000km+ BRMs or LRMs, and then every fortnight (600, 400, 300, 200 last on 11 Mar)] with overall 2500 starts reserved for 'French nationals'.
Start date Time limit Remaining places
20/08 80h00 1249
20/08 90h00 4800
21/08 84h00 1550
I see you got those numbers from the registration sub-site on the PBP 2023 site but 401 places seem to have disappeared already from the "remaining places" (the table totals 7599 not the 8,000 total / 2500 French / 5500 "rest" we were previously told was the limit, maybe the numbers have to be re-set for 2023? Guess we might know more after the weekend and the ACP "PBP Presentation" on Saturday afternoon (anyone going to be there?).
When the 2019 pre-registration "filled up" on 10 April 2019 there were about 1600 French pre-registered and 6000 "rest of the world" (total 7600) but the "rest"quota for 2023 will be max 5500 so already a bit of additional competition suggesting the rest of world pre-reg will fill earlier than early April?
The 2022 BRM stats* are not yet on the ACP site but there was an early December ACP FB site post saying the 2022 brevets were ahead of the 2018 (previous pre PBP year), details only for top 3 countries, India: 13000 (2022) compared to 8461 (2018), Japan: 12000 cf 13461 and
France: 10200 cf 7226, all suggesting a still hot pre-reg from just those 3.
Rest of the "top 10 countries" (but no details) were Thailand, USA, Italy, Brazil, Germany, UK and Malaysia (in order I assume?) The total brevet kms was noted as 31 million cf 32 million in 2018
Good luck everyone, my interest may well be just academic?
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https://www.audax-club-parisien.com/en/our-organizations/brm-world/#results-BRM