MGUCI Code	BWT
Founded	2016
Registered	Bulgaria (2016-2018 [primary])
	Canada (2017-2018 [secondary]; 2019 [primary])
	Germany (2020-present [primary])
	Austria (2021-present [secondary])
Base	Varna, Bulgaria (2016-2019)
	Frankfurt, Germany (2020-)
Status	MGUCI Continental (2016-2019; 2021)
	MGUCI ProContinental (2020)
Bicycles	Focus (2016)
	Argon 18 (2017-2018)
	Scott (2019-present)

Team [20 riders]:

Xhuliano Kamberaj [Loan]	Maxime Le Montagner
Marildo Yzeiraj	Jonathon Thire
Georgi Petrov Georgiev	Andrey Zeits
Nako Georgiev	Aleksei Saramotins
Nikolay Mihaylov	Clive Ebejer
Stanislav Zaraliev	Goran Cerovic
Jan Stöhr	Daan Rijntjes
Mikel Nieve	Michal Podlaski
José Joaquin Rojas Gil	Oleg Berdos
Sylvain Chavanel	Marius Petrache

Individual classification:

Team [20 riders]:

Xhuliano Kamberaj [Loan]	Ivan García Cortina [Loan]
Marildo Yzeiraj	Mikel Nieve
Thomas Degand	Maxime Le Montagner
Nako Georgiev	Jonathon Thire
Nikolay Mihaylov	Clive Ebejer
Georgi Petrov Georgiev	Daan Rijntjes
Petar Panayotov	Oleg Berdos
Stanislav Zaraliev	Marius Petrache
Jan Stöhr	Maxim Belkov
Jakob Fuglsang	Grega Bole

Individual classification:

Team [22 riders]:

Marildo Yzeiraj	Michal Kukrle [Loan]
Thomas Degand	Michal Schlegel [Loan]
Timothy Dupont [Free rider]	John Kronborg Ebsen
Michael Vanderaerden [Free rider]	Romain Bardet
Stefan Hristov	Hideto Nakane
Nikolay Mihaylov	Dion Beukeboom
Petar Panayotov	Krzysztof Marchewka
Valentin Stoenchev	Maxim Belkov
Stanislav Zaraliev	Grega Bole
Zachary Hughes	Jonas Bjelkmark
Charles Matte	Dmitri Grabovski

Individual classification:

Team [21 riders]:

Xhuliano Kamberaj	Enrico Battaglin
Riccardo Zoidl	Riccardo Ricco
Petar Panayotov	Hideto Nakane
Valentin Stoenchev	Ramunas Navardauskas
Alexander Cowan	Max Losch
Charles Matte	Tom Thill [Free rider]
Michal Kukrle [Loan]	Ole Haavardsholm [Free rider]
Adam Toupalik [Loan]	Krzysztof Marchewka
Troels Vinther	Tadej Pogacar [Loan]
Meron Amanuel	Hersony Canelon
Viktor Filutas [Loan]

Individual classification:

Team [23 riders]:

Damion Drapac	Lennard Kämna [Loan]
Georg Preidler	Andreas Stauff
Markus Wildauer [Stagiare]	Bjorn Thurau
Martin Grashev	Ramunas Navardauskas
Petar Panayotov	Jempy Drucker
Momchil Robov	Tom Thill
Valentin Stoenchev	Lorents Ola Aasvold
Sergio Higuita [Loan]	Alexander Kristoff
Leopold Konig	Krzysztof Marchewka
Jakub Otruba [Loan]	Martin Lavric [Stagiare]
Sebastian Lander	Hersony Canelon
Remy Rochas [Loan]

Individual classification:

Main Sponsors:
Hyundai Motor Europe GmbH
BWT AG

Minor Sponsors and techical partners:
Nürburgring Circuit
TeamViewer AG
DataMap Europe

Other suppliers:
Scott Sports (bikes)
DTSwiss (wheels)
Rotor (groupset)
Alé (kit manufacturer)
Kappa (apparel)
Northwave (bicycle shoes)
Uvex (helmets and glasses)

Monterrey TTT	Win	Yes
Volta a Catalunya	Top 5	Yes
Tour of Vancouver	Top 5	Yes
Giro del Trentino	Win	No
Team Standings	Win	Very Unlikely

Fabianski wrote:
Wish you all the best with your new sponsor! Will be interesting to see what you did during renewals - if rebrand means hard reset this time, or if you'll still continue with some of your old riders (I guess I'm allowed to say "old" ).

The MGUCI has finally published the full calendar for the 2021 season. The profiles of Grand Tour races along with the Tour of America and the races within the PTHC and HC categories were revealed in separate presentation (also, the remainder of the PT calendar was known already), but now all races in all categories have been revealed and also the dates are now known. In this new re-shuffling of the calendar it was perhaps shocking to see 17 (!) races being axed and only two new one-day races were added.

For the teams in the CT division they already have 58 guaranteed race days and unlike the PCT and PT team who have to choose between different bands of races (HC and PTHC for PCT and PTHC for PT), the C2HC is a single calendar for all teams (i.e. there're no bands for it which has been this wasy since 2017). Thus, the CT teams know their guaranteed races before the PCT division.

Thus, BWT Hyundai N Cycling has learned their initial race calendar (subject to additions of races from othe categories) for the 2021 season. The first stop will be a long travel to New Zealand for the Gisborne GP in early January. A month later it's the cobbled classic in Belgium - the Gent - Wevelgem, followed by the Volta a Catalunya (which was formerly in the C1 calendar) in mid-February. In early march the CT peloton will return to Belgium for the Geraardsbergen-Bosberg with the next set of C2HC events being in late April with the Lincoln GP in the UK and the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Only Tour du Faso is scheduled from the C2HC in May.

In June the peoloton will move to Canada for the Tour of Vancouver with the C2HC calendar stying in North America, but this time in Mexico for the Monterrey TTT. Early July will be packed with C2HC races with the all-new Uppsala Classic, followed up by a 4-day trip to the Persian Gulf and the Tour of the Middle East. Tour de Langkawi, one of the C2HC's regulars, will return once again - this time with an August dates. Lillestrom GP is the only C2HC even scheduled for September, while October will be again with the familiar races - the simultaneously held Herald Sun Tour and Course de Solidarnosc, while the season will traditionally end with the Zuri Metzgete.

When asked on what approach the team will take given the plethora of races and profile, CEO ivaneurope replied with..."Just wait and see"

Update: GP Izola, also part of the C2HC calendar will be held on 12 April

The 2021 MGUCI season is right around the corner and the teams have already made their choices on who should keep in their 2021 rosters. The BWT Hyundai N Cycling team made their decisions in the renewals - let's see how the team fared:

23 riders have represented the team last season. 4 of them were loaned in riders (Jakub Otruba, Remy Rochas, Lennard Kämna and Sergio Huguita). Adding the return of Max Losch (loaned out to Aker-MOT to be maxxed out) the team now had 20 riders with a total payroll of 2.16M. Considering the lower payroll budget for teams in the CT division as well as the average age of the roster before the process of 31.1, it was expected that the team would make significant cuts to their roster:

Rider	Old wage	New wage	Diff.
Sebastian Lander	150k	130k	20k
Momchil Robov	50k	80k	-30k
Max Losch	50k	80k	-30k
Ramunas Navardauskas	80k	65k	15k
Tom Thill	50k	50k	0k
Valentin Stoenchev	50k	50k	0k
Krzysztof Marchewka	50k	50k	0k

As seen by the table, the team only retained 7 riders out of their 20-team roster before the renewals. Robov and Losch got pay raises of 30k, Lander and Navardauskas took pay cuts of 20k and 15k respectively. This means that across these 7 riders the payroll has increased by 25k. But the most important thing is that the team cut 13 riders. One of the riders who got cut was Georg Preidler - the team asked him to take a huge pay cut (considering his season didn't reflect the 600k wage), but after the team's initial offer got rejected, both sides took to the conclusion that an agreement would be very difficult and mutually parted ways, making the Austrian a free agent. Leopold Konig and Alexander Kristoff were two other significant releases, along with Petar Panayotov. Pana took a substatial pay cut las time, but the team decided to move on and released their last vestages of the 2017 VMP - Argon 18 roster. Now, the longest standing riders in the roster are Marchewka and Stoenchev, who both joined in 2018. The two TT specialists are also the only riders on the team to have an overall win in a race (that being the inaugural Vilnius GP in 2018) as Herson Canelon (GC winner of the 2019 Course de Solidarnosc) was also released. Other releasese include Martin Grashev, Jempy Drucker, Andreas Stauff, Damion Drapac, Lorents Ola Aasvold, Bjorn Thurau, Martin Lavric and Markus Wildauer.

With the renewals now in history, the BWT Hyundai N Cycling team is gearing up for the transfer season and the race selection in the C1/C2 race categories. As far as transfer season goes, CEO ivaneurope could be looking to move some of the riders he renewed to either fill holes in key areas, or get an upgrade. Here's the availability chart for the 7 BWT Hyundai N Cycling riders:

Rider	Key stats	Availability
Sebastian Lander	79 SP, 77 ACC, 77 FL, 73 COB	3/5
Momchil Robov	76 HL, 72 MO, 76 FTR, 71 ACC	1/5
Max Losch	78 SP, 79 ACC, 73 FL, 71 COB	2/5
Ramunas Navardauskas	76 PL, 75 TT, 74 HL, 74 SP	3/5
Tom Thill	77 FTR, 74 TT, 74 FL, 73 HL	3/5
Valentin Stoenchev	76 TT, 76 PL, 74 FL	1/5
Krzysztof Marchewka	77 TT, 77 PL, 75 RES	4/5

We're pleased to announce the signing of American rider William Barta as a free agent. The former Azteca-NBCSN rider, who last year was spent on loan at Festina - OAKA as a part of maxxing out deal, Barta found himself without a ride after his original team disbanded at the end of the 2020 season. BWT Hyundai N Cycling have managed to sign him to € 100,000.

The BWT Hyundai N Cycling team announced their second signing in the transfer season - after being left without a ride for the season following Air France - KLM's demise, Michael Valgren Andersen joins the team. The Danish time-trail specialist's contract is for € 60,000.

Unfortunately we had to say goodbye to Ramunas Navardauskas - the Lithuanian TT champion will join the Baltic-centric PT team Evonik - ELKO. As part of the deal we'll get the Belarusian climber Andrei Sakalou, becomming the first rider from Belarus to ride for the team.

We've also made a loan deal with Zwift Pro Cycling to take Louis Visser from South Africa on loan for the season. As part of the agreement (which includes 1->3 level up) our team will cover half of his 50k wage for the duration of the loan.