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.
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.
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. 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. Tom Pidcock added another early-season Spanish win with victory on stage two at
Vuelta a Andalucía on his way to third place overall. 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. 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==