The team was founded by
Bradley Wiggins, after much speculation in the latter part of the 2014 road season, in order to better facilitate his return to the track as part of his preparations for the
2016 Olympic Games. The team has a reported budget of £460,000 which is comparable to
JLT–Condor and
Madison-Genesis. According to
Cycling Weekly the team's management comprises Robert Dodds (president of
XIX Entertainment, and Wiggins's manager), Andrew McQuaid (rider agent and director of Trinity Sports Management) and Wiggins himself. The team appointed former DS
Simon Cope as its first
directeur sportif . For the team's inaugural season the team began with eight full-time riders, with Wiggins joining on 1 May 2015. Those eight were
Steven Burke,
Mark Christian,
Jonathan Dibben,
Owain Doull,
Daniel Patten,
Iain Paton,
Andy Tennant and
Michael Thompson. These eight riders are supplemented by riders from the British Academy on a race to race basis. On 5 January 2015 the team was officially awarded its
UCI Continental licence. In March 2015, Bradley Wiggins confirmed that he would make his debut with the team at the
inaugural Tour de Yorkshire at the start of May. In 2016, he entered the
Tour De Yorkshire with his team and dropped out in the first stage. WIGGINS was not invited to the
2017 Tour de Yorkshire. In 2018 following the collapse of Team
Aqua Blue Sport, Team Wiggins participated at short notice in the
2018 Tour of Britain.
Tom Pidcock was the team's highest placed rider in the race at 17th in the General Classification. In November 2018 the team filed paperwork with
Companies House which indicated that XIX Entertainment no longer held a 40 per cent stake in the team, and that this share had been transferred to Wiggins' firm, Wiggins Right Limited. In August 2019, Wiggins announced that the team would be closing down at the end of the year. ==Sponsorship==