Drapac Professional Cycling

The Drapac Cycling team was conceived in 2005 by team founder Michael Drapac as a development program, founded to champion the concept of holistic development for young athletes in the sport. The team would offer a unique environment that recognised young cyclists need to develop outside the parameters of the sport they practised at a key stage in their lives. After eight successful years as a UCI Continental outfit in 2014, the team took the step to a fully-fledged professional team, taking out a Professional Continental license. Drapac Professional Cycling became the only Australian team operating at Pro-Continental level, and one of only two fully professional Australian cycling teams in history. In 2014 the team took 11 UCI wins, before breaking through with a first World Tour win on the final stage of the 2015 Tour Down Under. As these victories helped the team became recognised by a wider public, Michael Drapac was afforded the opportunity to promote the teams message to ...