Pinarello–Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team is a Swiss UCI ProTeam focusing on road bicycle racing. Douglas Ryder created the team which rode its first season in 2023. The team is sponsored by clothing brand Q36.5.

History Formation After folded in 2021, Douglas Ryder said he always wanted to come back to cycling at the top level. In 2022 Ryder was looking for riders to race for his team in 2022. The team was formed with riders who already rode for UCI WorldTeams plus some riders from the second and third divisions. Four-time Grand Tour champion Vincenzo Nibali joined as the team's technical advisor and Giro d'Italia stage winner Gabriele Missaglia was hired as an assistant directeur sportif. In December 2022, Union Cycliste Internationale announced that Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team was granted a UCI ProTeam licence for 2023 season.

2023 season

Q36.5 made an immediate impact with seven professional wins in its first season. Mark Donovan took overall victory at the 2023 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Matteo Moschetti had one-day victories at Clásica de Almería and Grand Prix d'Isbergues, and Nickolas Zukowsky was the Canadian National Road Race Champion. There were also stage victories for Matteo Badilatti at the Tour du Rwanda, Damien Howson at Vuelta a Asturias and Nicolò Parisini at CRO Race.ProCyclingStats - Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 2023

2024 season

The team followed up a successful debut season with a further five victories including two national titles. Jannik Steimle and Jelte Krijnsen took one-day wins at Grand Prix de Denain and Druivenkoers Overijse respectively, and Giacomo Nizzolo won stage four at the Sibiu Cycling Tour. David de la Cruz was the Spanish National Time Trial Champion and Negasi Haylu Abreha won the Ethiopian National Road Race title.ProCyclingStats - Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 2024

2025 season

In December 2024, it was announced that Tom Pidcock would leave Ineos Grenadiers to join Q36.5. Tom's younger brother Joe Pidcock and Kurt Bogaerts, Ineos assistant directeur sportif and long-time personal coach of Tom, also joined the team.Cyclinguptodate.com - Kurt Bogaerts thrilled to join Q36.5 and Pidcock after departing INEOS Grenadiers The moves paid immediate dividends, with Tom Pidcock taking two stages, the points competition and the first general classification victory of his career at his first race for the team, the 2025 AlUla Tour. Matteo Moschetti also won a stage to round out an excellent start to the season.

Fabio Christen took the first professional victory of his career at the 2025 Vuelta a Murcia, a one-day race in Murcia, Spain. Christen sprinted to the front with 200m to go and held off Aurélien Paret-Peintre and Christian Scaroni to take the win.ProCyclingStats - Vuelta a Murcia 2025 Tom Pidcock added another early-season Spanish win with victory on stage two at Vuelta a Andalucía on his way to third place overall.ProCyclingStats - Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 2025 Matteo Moschetti took his second win of the season on 8 March at Grand Prix Criquielion, the same day that Tom Pidcock finished second to reigning World Champion Tadej Pogačar at Strade Bianche.ProCyclingStats Grand Prix Criquielion 2025Cyclingnews.com - Strade Bianche 2025

Matteo Moschetti took his third and fourth wins of the season in April at the Tour of Hellas, outsprinting Dylan Groenewegen to the line twice to win stages one and five at the Greek race. The stage one result was the team's eighth win of the season, ensuring that 2025 would be its most successful year to date in terms of race victories.

On 31 March it was confirmed that Q36.5 would compete in its first Grand Tour race at the 2025 Giro d'Italia after being invited to participate by race organisers RCS Sport. Tom Pidcock was the highest overall finisher on the team, completing the race in 14th place. Pidcock and Moschetti both took stage podiums during the race, with Pidcock finishing third on stage five and Moschetti placing third on the final stage behind Olav Kooij and Kaden Groves as the riders sprinted to the finish in Rome.

Q36.5 were also invited to compete in the 2025 Vuelta a España after their strong performance in the Giro. Tom Pidcock finished on the podium in 3rd for the general classification, 3'11" behind winner Jonas Vingegaard. The team also finished in the top 10 in the team classification.

Team roster

Major wins

2023 Clásica de Almería, Matteo Moschetti Stage 6 Tour du Rwanda, Matteo Badilatti Stage 1 Vuelta a Asturias, Damien Howson National Road Race Championships, Nickolas Zukowsky Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour, Mark Donovan Grand Prix d'Isbergues, Matteo Moschetti Stage 3 CRO Race, Nicolò Parisini 2024 Grand Prix de Denain, Jannik Steimle National Time Trial Championships, David de la Cruz National Road Race Championships, Negasi Haylu Abreha Stage 4 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Giacomo Nizzolo Druivenkoers Overijse, Jelte Krijnsen 2025 Overall AlUla Tour, Tom Pidcock Stages 2 & 4, Tom Pidcock Stage 5, Matteo Moschetti Vuelta a Murcia, Fabio Christen Stage 2 Vuelta a Andalucía, Tom Pidcock Grand Prix Criquielion, Matteo Moschetti Stages 1 & 5 Tour of Hellas, Matteo Moschetti Stage 2 Tour of Slovenia, Fabio Christen National Road Race Championships, Rory Townsend Stage 2 Vuelta a Burgos, Matteo Moschetti Stage 3 Arctic Race of Norway, Tom Pidcock Hamburg Cyclassics, Rory Townsend 2026 Stage 5 Vuelta a Andalucía, Tom Pidcock Milano–Torino, Tom Pidcock

National champions 2023 Canada Road Race, Nickolas Zukowsky 2024 Spain Time Trial, David de la Cruz Ethiopia Road Race, Negasi Haylu Abreha 2025 Ireland Road Race, Rory Townsend

Supplementary statistics Sources: Grand Tours by highest finishing positionRace202320242025Giro d'Italia––16Tour de France–––Vuelta a España––3Major week-long stage races by highest finishing positionRace202320242025Tour Down Under–––Paris–Nice–––Tirreno–Adriatico17896Volta a Catalunya–––Tour of the Basque Country–37–Tour de Romandie–15–Critérium du Dauphiné–24–Tour de Suisse181431Tour de Pologne2420–Benelux Tour–––Monuments by highest finishing positionMonument202320242025Milan–San Remo42–39Tour of Flanders501456Paris–Roubaix851832Liège–Bastogne–Liège––9Il Lombardia72–6Classics by highest finishing positionClassic202320242025Omloop Het Nieuwsblad–4938Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne292845Strade Bianche53452E3 Harelbeke562932Gent–Wevelgem–3163Dwars door Vlaanderen474242Amstel Gold Race58239La Flèche Wallonne–293Clásica de San Sebastián–––Paris–Tours53977

+ Legend— Did not competeDNS Did not startDNF Did not finishNH Not held

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