Multiple Pidcock might 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 could fold on the finish of this yr.
In 2024, Joe picked up considered one of Trinity’s highest-profile wins, the ultimate stage of considered one of France’s prime U-23 occasions, the Ronde d’Isarde in addition to a stage of the Dornan Ras Mornhan in Eire.
To this point, the 2 brothers have, nonetheless, by no means beforehand raced collectively in the identical staff on the similar time. However that’s all set to vary in 2025.
As had been extensively 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 staff’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 effectively.
“First impressions are all the time necessary and within the case of the Q36.5 Professional Biking Crew these impressions have been optimistic,” Bogaerts mentioned in a staff 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 staff atmosphere, 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, together with his older brother unquestionably the headline signing this autumn after his turbulent last 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 staff embody promising younger Visma-Lease a Bike allrounder Milan Vader, Dutch one-day specialist Sjoerd Bax and multiple-time Latvian Nationwide Highway Champion Emils Leipinš.
In a latest interview with the BBC, Q36.5 Crew Principal Doug Ryder lavished fulsome reward on his new star signing, saying the Briton’s consideration to element was “subsequent stage.”
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 staff… 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 staff on board with him, which I have not seen in some massive leaders up to now.”
