Teams
Take a look at the teams taking to the start line at this year's Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men.
Meet the Teams
Bahrain Victorious
Launched in 2017, the Bahrain Victorious team make their Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain debuts this September, and are likely to feature a strong line-up for their first appearance. No strangers to the world’s biggest races, Bahrain Victorious have won stages in all three Grand Tours as well as several one-day Classics and Monuments.
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Development Team
The under-23 team of the famous Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale WorldTour team have sent the likes of Matteo Jorgensen, Benoît Cosnefroy, and Pierre Latour onto top level success. The current crop includes junior world time trial champion Oscar Chamberlain, French under-23 champion Noa Isidore, and Danish national champion Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen, all of whom are tipped to move up to WorldTour level in the next couple of years.
Equipe continentale Groupama-FDJ
Created in 2019 as an under 23 team for the long standing Groupama-FDJ WorldTour team. Though they are a French development team, recent years have seen them send Brits Jake Stewart, Sam Watson, and Lewis Askey on to race for the WorldTour Groupama FDJ team, with the team currently boasting another trio of Brits in Ben Askey, Noah Hobbs, and Josh Golliker.
Global 6 United
The multi-national team made their race debut in 2021, winning fans through the attacking riding of Brazilian Nico Sessler in that and subsequent editions. Italian rider Giacomo Ballabio is their highest ranked rider, while the sole Brit on the team is Essex’s James Jobber, in a squad that includes eight nationalities among their 11 riders.
INEOS Grenadiers
Britain’s first - and to date only - UCI WorldTour team. INEOS Grenadiers have gone on to become one of the world’s most successful teams, winning seven Tours de France among over 500 victories. They have won stages in all bar one edition of their national Tour that they have competed in, famously winning the overall race in 2013 with Sir Bradley Wiggins, though on five other occasions an INEOS rider has finished as runner up in the Tour.
Israel – Premier Tech
The team return after a year’s absence, having won the opening stage of the 2022 Tour with Corbin Strong, who then led the race for two days. The team have always had a strong British interest through the likes of Alex Dowsett, Mason Hollyman, and Chris Froome, but in 2024 have added the quartet of Joseph Blackmore, Jake Stewart, Ethan Vernon, and Stevie Williams, with the latter pair both animating the 2023 Tour of Britain at different stages.
Lidl – Trek Future Racing
The development team of the WorldTour Lidl-Trek squad were created for the 2024 season, and their debut couldn’t have gone much better with well over a dozen victories by the midpoint, including the under 23 national road race championships in Germany and Luxembourg, and the time trial equivalents in Germany, Luxembourg and Sweden.
Project Echelon Racing
In existence since 2017, Project Echelon Racing became a UCI team in 2023 and for this year announced intentions to race more in Europe, which has seen them compete in fellow UCI ProSeries events the Tour of Norway and Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. They have taken wins in major North American stages races the Tour of the Gila and Tour de Beauce so far in 2024, while also recently winning stages of the Volta a Portugal and Kreiz Breizh Elites during their European programme.
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
Q36.5 Pro Cycling had a hugely successful debut in 2023, with Damien Howson coming third overall, and Mark Donovan claiming the best British rider prize. As well as Donovan, the team have further home interest with Irishman Rory Townsend, a six-time participant in the race and winner of the former Sprints jersey in 2019, while team manager Doug Ryder has twice won the Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men with his former team in 2015 and 2016.
REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland
The nine-year-old team make their Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men debut, taking their name from the Sauerland, a rural, hilly region of North Rhine-Westphalia in the west of Germany. One of just a few non-German riders in the team is Jacob Scott, a fan favourite at the Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain having won three jerseys (king of the mountains in 2019 and 2021, and sprints in 2021) and the overall combativity award (2021).
Sabgal / Anicolor
The fluorescent jerseys of Sabgal / Anicolor will make their debut this year becoming the first Portuguese team to race in the Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men since 2008. The team has a rich history dating back to its formation as a cycling club in 1996. Unsurprisingly, the team have a mainly Portuguese line-up, with a sole British rider in Yorkshireman Ollie Rees, who has twice before competed in his home Tour.
Saint Piran
The team - named after the patron saint of Cornwall - made their race debut in 2021 when the Tour began in Penzance, with the Cornish outfit becoming mainstays of the race ever since. In their second Tour the team went agonisingly close to a momentous stage win in Sunderland when Alex Richardson came third from a breakaway, while 12 months ago Zeb Kyffin came sixth overall in an excellent result for one of the smallest teams in the race.
Soudal Quick-Step
Soudal Quick-Step are one of the biggest names in the sport with a history of over 20 years of competition at the top level. They are the most successful team in the history of the Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men, having won stages in every one of their 10 previous participations, most recently in 2021 when Yves Lampart took victory in Edinburgh.
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
Another WorldTour team with a long history of competing in the Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men and an everpresent feature since 2018. Their last stage win in the race came at Duns in the Scottish Borders in 2022 thanks to Cees Bol. Scotland provides another link with the team, as Scots Oscar Onley (Kelso) and Sean Flynn (Edinburgh) are among their 29 rider squad alongside Yorkshireman Max Poole.
TRINITY Racing
The second British domestic team in the race, TRINITY Racing are firmly focussed on developing under-23 riders and sending them to the higher levels of the sport, something that they have done to great success over the past four years. Alumni of the team now racing at UCI WorldTour level include Thomas Gloag (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), Ben Healy (EF Education – EasyPost), Luke Lamperti (Soudal Quick-Step) and Tom Pidcock and Ben Turner (both INEOS Grenadiers).
Uno-X Mobility
The popular Norwegian team have raced at ProTeam level since 2020, making their Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain debut two years later. All of their 30 rider squad hails from either Norway or Denmark. Last year saw them take their first stage win at the Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men (in Gloucester with Rasmus Tiller), while Milan-San Remo and Ronde van Vlaanderen winner Alexander Kristoff won the race’s points jersey in 2017.
Van Rysel – Roubaix
Another team whose luminous jerseys will ensure they stand out in the peloton on their first appearance in Britain, the team have a long and storied history that dates back to their inception in the 2000s. Samuel Leroux won a stage of the historic Etoile de Bessèges ahead of WorldTour riders in Feburary, while in Norman Vahtra they have the reigning Estonian national road race champion. A new signing for the team is Oscar Nilsson-Julien, now a member of the French track squad but who was born in London and raced for Great Britain as a junior.
