2011 Garmin–Cervélo season

They also took stage wins at both of the season's other Grand Tours, though their Giro d'Italia was marred by the death of Wouter Weylandt, a close friend of Garmin-Cervélo rider Tyler Farrar.

On the Le Manie climb, 90 kilometers (56 mi) from the finish, Hushovd crashed from roughly the middle of the peloton, leading to the race effectively being split in two.

While teammate Vansummeren obligingly offered the world champion one of his, Hushovd stated after the race that the crash ended his chances at victory, since he could not pedal at full strength due to a hip injury.

He had his choice leadout man Klier with him, but he was unable to make the day's final split on the Poggio, finishing the race in 18th place 27 seconds behind the eight-rider group who contested the win.

Garmin-Cervélo had no riders factor into the race's finale; Farrar fared slightly better than Hushovd, leading the first large group across the finish line, but he was a minute and a half down in 12th place.

[44] After yet another disappointing showing in a major spring classic, one post-race analysis suggested the team should no longer be considered favorites in single-day races.

Only Hushovd and Ballan could follow, and the Swiss time trial ace very quickly caught every member of the early breakaway that was still out front, with the exception of Vansummeren.

He was the team's best finisher in Liège, but Le Mével did him better in Flèche Wallonne, riding to ninth place to secure 6 UCI rankings points.

Sprinter Grega Bole jumped early for the win, while attackers Simon Gerrans and Thomas Voeckler were caught out between him and the peloton behind for second and third.

[62] Millar rode to fifth place in the Chrono des Nations individual time trial,[63] before Haussler closed out the team's season by winning a national-level event in his native Australia, the Noosa Grand Prix.

Goss, however, mounted a spirited challenge, winning bonus time not only at the finish but also in the first intermediate sprint, coming up two seconds short in the final overall standings.

[75] He credited the win to the team treating the third stage like a one-day classic, while also mentioning that HTC–Highroad's Bernhard Eisel performed an effective leadout for all the sprinters at the finish.

[77] Haussler was a distant ninth in the event's final stage, meaning the bonus time on offer went wanting and he finished second overall, though winning the points classification for the third year in a row.

The American had occupied a podium spot, second, before the flat final stage, but a re-occurrence of an abdominal injury left him physically unable to complete the race.

On a slight uphill finish at Huttwil, Liquigas–Cannondale's Peter Sagan led out from a group about half the size of the full peloton, but Hushovd caught and surpassed him.

[99] Haussler took his third and final win of the season at the inaugural Tour of Beijing, coming first in a full field sprint finish to stage 2, the first road race.

However, the race and the entire cycling world were turned sideways by the death of Leopard Trek rider Wouter Weylandt after crashing on the descent of the day's last climb, the Passo del Bocco.

[115] Millar's run in pink had made him the first British rider ever to hold the leader's jersey in all three Grand Tours, though with Weylandt's death he had not really had much of a chance to enjoy it.

[121] Stage 11 was heavily undulating, to the point where Contador seemed to suggest that he would tactically surrender the pink jersey and not have his team mount an aggressive chase of the day's inevitable breakaway.

"[132] While Navardauskas was in his neo-pro season in 2011, consequently making this his first Grand Tour, Danielson was a ten-year veteran who had often in his career been tapped as the next great overall classification rider to come out of the United States.

After the morning's breakaway was caught, some 9 kilometers (5.6 mi) from the finish, Garmin-Cervélo leadout riders hit the front but were quickly displaced by HTC–Highroad working for Mark Cavendish.

With Cavendish losing position due to his teammates' flub earlier, Farrar was easily able to make it to the line first, taking his first career Tour stage win.

[142] Farrar again missed out on the finale to the flat seventh stage, being brought down in a big crash with other riders like Alexander Vinokourov, Levi Leipheimer, and Chris Horner.

[149] Danielson lost a minute in the overall classification in stage 18, ending at the Col du Galibier, but remained ninth overall, with time gaps above and below him making it unlikely he would gain or lose any positions as the race went forward.

[155] The squad's performance in the stage 1 team time trial was mediocre, as they finished with six riders in ninth place 25 seconds back of the winners Leopard Trek.

Roche could not keep the pace for long, but defending Vuelta champion Vincenzo Nibali and soon-to-be race leader Bauke Mollema made the bridge up to Martin, in turn.

Officially, White was released for referring former team rider Trent Lowe to a Spanish doctor named Luis Garcia del Moral, who has been implicated in several doping cases.

[166] Shortly afterward, the team hired Peter Van Petegem as classics advisor, with a short-term contract running from the beginning of March until Paris–Roubaix on April 10.

The timing of the contract was to avoid an appearance of impropriety due to Van Petegem's role with the organizers of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and his own full-time job as an insurance broker.

He also served as a consultant with the Astana team in 2010 helping Alberto Contador learn to ride the cobbles that figured into stage 4 of the 2010 Tour de France.