Jason Lowndes will ride for the Cycling Academy Team in 2017 with the Israeli team making the jump up to the Pro-Continental ranks. Lowndes joined Drapac at the start of 2016 but with the Australian team merging with Cannondale from January 1 2017, the 21-year-old has found a new home in the Middle East.
Lowndes is the second Australian signed by Cycling Academy Team for 2017, joining fellow Victorian Zak Dempster on the roster.
"I have signed for Cycling Academy and I am pretty happy to stay Pro-Continental," Lowndes told Cyclingnews of his team for 2017.
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Although he signed with Cycling Academy, it was the second contract that Lowndes signed for the 2017 season as he explained.
"A goal was to stay professional," he said of his season aims."To be honest, coming into Worlds, it wasn't looking good. I talked to a lot of teams who were interested but they would just give me the 'no deal'. Thankfully a Canadian team Silber offered me a contract, it was a good one, and they put a clause in it that if I was to be offered a contract from a Pro-Continental team before November 1, I could freely take that and they would rip up the Silber contract."
Sixth place on his Worlds debut in the U23 road race for Australia saw Cycling Academy offer the contract to Lowndes, who was full of praise for Silber's understanding and how team management handled the deal.
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