McQuaid starts new international road team, Irish rider already signed

*Irish cycling agent Andrew McQuaid on the Tour de France this year with one of the riders he manages, Rohan Dennis*

Having launched the Trinity Racing cyclocross team last week in London, featuring star turn Tom Pidcock, Andrew McQuaid is now starting a road team.

Pidcock is one of
the confirmed road riders so far as is Ben Healy, the 2018 Irish junior TT
champion and a stage winner at Tour de l’Avenir this year in his first season
as an U23.

McQuaid, an Irish
cycling agent now based in the UK, had been heavily involved with the British
Continental level Team Wiggins for the past five years.

However, with
that team now folding and Pidcock and a number of other top U23 riders left
looking for a squad, McQuaid has now decided to keep the Trinity Racing team
going for the 2020 road season.

Both Tom Pidcock and Ben Healy ride for Team Wiggins this season, though Healy competed in the Tour de l’Avenir on a UCI composite team.

*Ben Healy winning at the Tour de l'Avenir; the Irish rider will compete on the road with Trinity Racing next season*

*Pidcock will ride for Trinity Racing with Healy on the road next year*

“It was not the original intention,” McQuaid said of Trinity Racing continuing beyond the cyclocross season and into a full 2020 road season.

“Trinity Racing was just going to expand a little to do some MTB and gravel," he said of the cyclocross team.

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“But
unfortunately when we knew for sure Team Wiggins was going to fold we had to
try figure a team out for Tom, and a few really young guys.

“It’s a big shame
Wiggins folded as that really was getting the reputation as an excellent feeder
team.”

Last August
McQuaid launched the three-rider TP Racing team; a vehicle designed mainly for
Pidcock, one of the Irishman’s clients, to ride the 2018-2019 cyclocross
season.

That TP Racing
team has now effectively morphed into the three-rider Trinity Racing team for
the 2019-2020 cyclocross season.

As well as
Pidcock it also features British riders Cameron Mason (19) and Abby-Mae
Parkinson (22).

And now Trinity
Racing will also compete a full road racing season in 2020, with an eight-rider
roster.

While it will not
be a UCI level team, the presence of Pidcock and Healy in the roster should see
it have very little difficulty securing places in major European races.

Pidcock and Healy
are the only two riders of a planned eight that have been confirmed for the
Trinity Racing road team to date.