US Continental team Holowesko-Citadel p/b Hincapie Sportswear has applied for Pro Continental status for 2018, following on the heels of similar announcements from fellow Continental teams Axeon Hagens Berman and Rally Cycling.
Team director Thomas Craven announced at the Tour of Alberta last week that the funding is in place to make the move, and the team will learn in November if the UCI has approved the application.
"I don't know all the details," Craven told Cyclingnews. "I always say that I just work here. But we've got a couple other sponsors and there are some commitments out there. Things are happening.
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"There's a certain timeline that you have to apply, and Rich [Hincapie] and George [Hincapie] are confident enough in what we've got so far that we're going to make the monetary piece. It's just a matter of the details that have to be worked out with the UCI: the name of the team, current sponsors versus new sponsors and things like that, and the roster. So at this point, it's really just keeping everyone on the team and adding a few more guys."
The South Carolina-based team jumped into the Continental ranks in 2012 as the BMC-Hincapie Sportswear development team, a feeder program for the BMC Racing WorldTour squad. The program dropped the BMC moniker in 2013 when BMC created its own dedicated development team. Craven's squad raced as the Hincapie Sportswear Development Team in 2013 and 2014, then changed the name to Hincapie Sportswear in 2015, followed by Holowesko-Citadel in 2016.
Since 2012, the team has won stages at the Tour of the Gila, Redlands Bicycle Classic, Joe Martin Stage Race, Cascade Cycling Classic, Tour of China, Paris-Arras Tour, Fleche du Sud, Tour de Beauce, Tour of Alberta, USA Pro Challenge, Tour of Utah, Colorado Classic and the Amgen Tour of California, among others. Holowesko riders have also won the overall at Redlands, Joe Martin, Cascade, Tour de Beauce and Tour of Alberta.
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