A couple of Pidcock can be racing for Q36.5 in 2025. Tom Pidcock‘s youthful brother Joe was introduced on December 24 as a brand new signing for the Swiss ProTeam, finishing their roster for subsequent season.
Three years Tom Pidcock’s junior, for the final two seasons, Joe had been racing for the UK Continental squad Trinity Racing – the place his elder sibling raced briefly again in 2020 – till it introduced that it will fold on the finish of this 12 months.
In 2024, Joe picked up one among Trinity’s highest-profile wins, the ultimate stage of one among France’s high U-23 occasions, the Ronde d’Isarde in addition to a stage of the Dornan Ras Mornhan in Eire.
To date, the 2 brothers have, nevertheless, by no means beforehand raced collectively in the identical workforce on the similar time. However that’s all set to alter in 2025.
As had been broadly anticipated, Tom Pidcock’s coach Kurt Bogaerts, like Pidcock senior beforehand at Ineos Grenadiers, has additionally been confirmed as becoming a member of Q36.5. Within the Belgian’s case, he’ll tackle a brand new position because the workforce’s head of technical efficiency. The Briton’s longstanding soigneur Xenia de Roose, additionally previously at Ineos Grenadiers, is transferring throughout to the Swiss squad for 2025 as nicely.
“First impressions are at all times essential and within the case of the Q36.5 Professional Biking Group these impressions had been optimistic,” Bogaerts mentioned in a workforce press launch.
It’s very particular to proceed working with Tom. Xenia and I’ve been a part of his profession since 2018, and we achieved nice outcomes collectively. On this new workforce setting, I’m wanting ahead to persevering with that journey.”
Joe Pidcock is the eighth and final new addition to a radically overhauled Q36.5 squad for 2025, along with his older brother unquestionably the headline signing this autumn after his turbulent remaining season at Ineos Grenadiers.
While a former Tour de France stage winner and Olympic MTB and Cyclo-cross World Champion like Pidcock will inevitably draw a lot of the media consideration, different new additions to observe in 2025 within the Swiss workforce embrace promising younger Visma-Lease a Bike allrounder Milan Vader, Dutch one-day specialist Sjoerd Bax and multiple-time Latvian Nationwide Street Champion Emils Leipinš. Nevertheless, rumours that veteran Italian sprinter and Olympic observe gold medallist Elia Viviani may be becoming a member of Pidcock at Q36.5 from Ineos Grenadiers now appear to have been unfounded.
In a latest interview with the BBC, Q36.5 Group Principal Doug Ryder lavished fulsome reward on his new star signing, saying the Briton’s consideration to element was “subsequent degree.”
He focuses on each millimetre; on the bike positioning and the bike set-up, to the vitamin, to the race programme, to the teaching.”
“He met with all of the leaders in our workforce… the pinnacle coach, the pinnacle nutritionist, the pinnacle physician, the pinnacle of efficiency and was difficult and asking questions.”
“He is [sic] actually, actually needs to get the entire workforce on board with him, which I have not seen in some large leaders prior to now.”
