The race is part of the Superprestige series and is usually held in the last week of December before the New Year's day.

In 1982 the race was included in the first edition of the Superprestige series which it has continued to be part of ever since.

The race has been held under the artificial lightning for the first time in 2000 [1] and later every year since 2007.

In 2023 and 2024 the celebrity cyclo-cross race Turbo Cross was organized in between the Elite Women's and Elite Men's races.

[2][3] In 2007, future road cycling world champion Peter Sagan won the junior cyclo-cross race in Diegem.