2011 BMC Racing Team season

[12] Ballan narrowly missed victory a week later at Montepaschi Strade Bianche, finishing second at the line behind Philippe Gilbert.

[13] At the first monument race of the season, Milan–San Remo, BMC was one of only two teams to have more than three riders present in the leading group on the road after a crash on the Le Manie climb 90 kilometers (56 mi) from the finish effectively split the field in two.

After Nibali, Gilbert, and FDJ's Yoann Offredo opened up the sprint, Ballan was gapped off momentarily and could manage only fourth behind race winner Matthew Goss.

When Fabian Cancellara put in an attack on the Leberg, the day's fourteenth cobbled climb, and quickly took a sizable time gap, it was the BMC team which organized the chase to bring him back.

[18] Cancellara put in another move on the Muur van Geraardsbergen and was followed only by Sylvain Chavanel and eventual race winner Nick Nuyens.

[19] Kristoff rode to seventh place in the sprinters' classic Scheldeprijs later in April, back of three-time winner Mark Cavendish.

He and Thor Hushovd marked the accelerations of odds-on favorite Cancellara throughout the day and, with both having teammates up the road in breakaway groups, did not contribute any work.

Ballan felt his suspension in 2010 was because the team had not yet attained the highest level in the sport and had to rely on wildcard invitations to attend top-level races.

[29] Van Avermaet narrowly missed the podium at Halle–Ingooigem, losing the sprint for third place to FDJ's Gianni Meersman and taking fourth on the day.

[30] The team also sent squads to the Classica Sarda, Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, the Giro del Friuli, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Gent–Wevelgem, and Brabantse Pijl, but finished no higher than 13th in any of these races.

Van Avermaet opened the team's later season with a podium finish at the Clásica de San Sebastián, winning a seven-rider sprint for third place 14 seconds back of the day's winner Philippe Gilbert.

[31] Much like he had earlier in the season at Scheldeprijs, Kristoff finished in the top ten but not especially close to victory at the sprinters' classic Paris–Brussels in September, taking seventh place in a 46-rider sprint.

[32] He turned in a similar performance a week later at the Championship of Flanders, seventh from a 55-rider sprint,[33] and two days hence at the Grand Prix d'Isbergues with fifth from a group of 57.

The sprinters' teams worked to chase down the morning breakaway, but the only effect this actually had was allowing Van Avermaet, and others, a shorter distance to bridge from the main field up to the front of the race.

The leading group's advantage over the peloton never exceeded two minutes, but it proved to be enough as Van Avermaet took the win ahead of Vacansoleil–DCM's Marco Marcato, with the next rider a further 15 seconds down.

He just missed out on victory at the Giro del Piemonte, finishing second of 11 riders in a breakaway sprint behind Daniel Moreno of Team Katusha.

Sitting third at that point, he finished eighth on the day and took sufficient time to overtake Pavel Brutt and Alexander Vinokourov to move into the race lead.

While Bradley Wiggins proved by far the strongest of the overall classification riders in the stage 3 individual time trial, Evans' sixth place on the day moved him up to second overall.

[52] This stage occurred on the same day that Evans sealed his Tour de France championship in Paris; the team posted news of Van Avermaet's race leadership by calling it the "other yellow jersey" they had taken.

[55] Hincapie returned to the winners' circle for the first time in two years at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, finishing the best of six breakaway riders in stage 2 in Aspen.

Sporting director Fabio Baldato stated that the team's nine-man squad was designed to give them a chance at a stage win every day, with Kristoff for the sprints, Kohler, Wyss, and Zahner for the breakaways, and Tschopp and Frank for the climbs.

[61] The squad was most active during stage 5, on the unpaved or 'white' roads into Orvieto, when Kohler went on the attack after 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) and made the principal breakaway as a single rider.

He was therefore first over the two third-category climbs on the course, and while mountains leader Gianluca Brambilla took maximum points from the peloton on both, Kohler took the green jersey from him at day's end.

[42] Among them were the early-season stage races Tirreno–Adriatico and Tour de Romandie, both of which Evans won, and the Critérium du Dauphiné, where he finished on the podium in second overall.

Almost completely flat with a punchy uphill finish, the stage kept the peloton together most of the way before a crash 9 kilometers (5.6 mi) from the end split the field.

The result left Garmin–Cervélo riders Thor Hushovd and David Millar tied on the same time at the top of the overall classification, with the Norwegian taking the yellow jersey, and Evans installed into third overall just a single second back.

[68] Though the next day featured a change of race leader, when a breakaway including Thomas Voeckler gained almost four minutes against the peloton, Evans remained well-placed in third overall.

His long, largely solo chase was characterized as saving his overall chances after Andy Schleck had made his bid for Tour victory beforehand.

[72] The status quo largely held the next day on Alpe d'Huez, though Voeckler at last fell from the race lead, putting Andy Schleck in the yellow jersey.

[85] All the team had to show for itself from the second half of the Vuelta was a seventh place from Van Avermaet in the field sprint finish to stage 12.