After more than four years on the WorldTour with BMC Racing and IAM Cycling, American Larry Warbasse is looking for more opportunities for a leadership role next season at Aqua Blue Sport, a new Pro Continental team registered in Ireland.
The 26-year-old from Michigan signed with BMC Racing as a trainee in 2012 and rode with the American WorldTour program though 2014 before moving to IAM Cycling for two years. When the Swiss team announced it would fold at the end of this season, Warbasse and nearly 30 teammates were left looking for a roster spot. With Tinkoff folding as well, the market was crowded.
Nevertheless, Warbasse, who calls Nice, France, home during the season, secured a ride with the new Irish outfit after a long talk with Aqua Blue Sport performance director Leigh Bryan.
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"I was talking with a few teams before the Vuelta and during the Vuelta as well," Warbasse recently told Cyclingnews. "I was talking with quite a few WorldTour teams, and then one or two of those fell through. I had heard about this Aqua Blue, and I knew a guy they call Rok – but his name is Leigh Bryan, actually – they were putting a team together and he was going to be the performance director, so I decided to shoot him a message to see if I could talk with him about the team.
"He came to Nice to meet me, and we had a really long conversation. It sounded like a really good project. It went pretty quickly after that."
Warbasse will join fellow WorldTour riders Adam Blythe (Tinkoff), Matt Brammeier (Dimension Data), Andrew Fenn (Team Sky), Lars Petter Nordhaug (Team Sky) and IAM Cycling teammates Leigh Howard and Stefan Denfil on Aqua Blue Sport next year.
'A really good opportunity to see what I'm capable of'
Fresh start with a brand-new team
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