The team sent a squad to the Tour de San Luis in mid-January, coming away with two stage wins. Chicchi won the mass sprint finish to the first stage, and Nibali followed with an individual time trial win in stage 4. The win put Nibali in the race leader's orange jersey, which he would retain through the conclusion of the event. The team was successful in stage hunting in Asia in February, with Chicchi winning two stages in the Tour of Qatar and Bennati one in the Tour of Oman. Later in February, Kreuziger won the most difficult stage of the Giro di Sardegna en route to the overall victory. The Giro di Sardegna was mostly composed of flat stages; the top three finishers in the hilly second stage (Kreuziger, Chris Horner, and Thomas Voeckler) finished in that same order in the final overall standings, showing how little the standings changed on the other days.
