 The team at the 2023 Fyen Rundt | |
| Team information | |
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| UCI code | RKT |
| Registered | France |
| Founded | 2023 |
| Discipline(s) | Road |
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| Key personnel | |
| General manager | Julia Soek |
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| Team name history | |
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The Unibet Tietema Rockets are a Dutch UCI ProTeam status cycling team on a French license focusing on road bicycle racing. [1] Bas Tietema created the team in 2023. The team upgraded from UCI Continental to UCI ProTeam status in 2024. [2] [3]
The main sponsor of the team is Unibet who sponsored a team back in 2006/2007 (Unibet.com) but because of a dispute with major race organizers over gambling companies being sponsors they pulled out. Now with other teams having sponsors which are lotteries, Unibet decided to come back to professional cycling, [4] although from 2028 teams sponsored by gambling companies will not be able to race in Belgium. [5]
Hugo Haak joined as Team Manager in 2023 after coaching on the Track for the past few years. [6]
The team's calendar for 2023 consisted of mostly Belgian and Dutch races. [7] The team's biggest victory was stage 1 of the ZLM Tour by Yentl Vandevelde. Despite this success, Vandevelde was let go by the team for 2024. [8]
On 17 October 2024 the team announced that it would be renamed to Unibet Tietema Rockets and would ride on a French license from 2025 on.
The team uses Cannondale bicycles in a bright yellow-pink colour scheme. [9] The bike has Shimano Ultegra Di2 12 speed gearing with Scope wheels [10] and Pirelli tires. [11]
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Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites, Hartthijs de Vries 
Overall Oberösterreich Rundfahrt, Adrien Maire 
