From the 2021 season onwards, the pro riders of Team Sunweb’s Men, Women and Development Programs will race on SCOTT bicycles.
There has been a recent shake-up of bike sponsorship among WorldTour cycling teams. SCOTT’s newly confirmed partnership with Team Sunweb from 2021 has also seen a shuffling of roles for Cervélo and Bianchi:
- Cervélo, the current bike supplier to Team Sunweb, will ride with Team Jumbo-Visma in 2021
- Current Team Jumbo-Visma sponsor, Bianchi, has become the new bike sponsor of GreenEDGE Cycling (which is racing as Mitchelton-SCOTT this year).
“After nine years with GreenEdge Cycling / Mitchelton-SCOTT, we believe it was time for a change and we found in Team Sunweb the ideal partner for a new start,’’ said Pascal Ducrot, Vice-President of SCOTT Sports.
“They are one of the leading teams with a very young and ambitious team, but most of all they share that absolute determination to use every single day to get better with us. The team does so on the bike, whereas we do so with engineering and developing new technology to build the fastest bikes out there.
“We are confident that this partnership will deliver from the start some fast, exciting and successful racing with the Men, Women and Development programs. Our engineering team is looking forward to working closely with Team Sunweb’s engineering and biomechanic experts to integrate their input and feedback in the development of the next generation of our road bikes.”
In its pursuit of success in Grand Tours, classics and sprints, Team Sunweb will race next year with SCOTT’s Addict RC for climbing and lumpier races, the SCOTT Foil for sprint races and SCOTT’s Plasma for time trails, all equipped with components from SCOTT’s sister company, Syncros.
Team Sunweb will ride the latest road one-piece cockpit, the Creston iC SL on their Addict RC and Foil bikes with ‘intelligent internal cable routing and ergonomic focused design.’
Narelle Neumann, Team Sunweb’s Head of Science, said “SCOTT has an unprecedented track record in designing the fastest race bikes on the grid and to always introduce new revolutionary technology.
“Despite SCOTT’s premium reputation today, their engineering team have the dynamic of an energetic challenger, while they live and breathe the absolute will to keep revolutionizing the bikes of the future, and keep presenting race bikes which effectively make the difference at races at the highest level in the world.
“It’s a great honour for our riders to race SCOTT bikes. And it’s a privilege for our experts to work alongside SCOTT’s engineering team on their continuous journey to keep revolutionizing road bikes.”
