The 2011 season for Team RadioShack began in January at the Tour Down Under and ended in October with Robbie McEwen's participation in the Noosa Grand Prix.
Team RadioShack fielded the overall winner in all three events, Chris Horner in California and Levi Leipheimer in Utah and Colorado.
In the Trofeo Inca, Hermans figured into a winning breakaway that formed 40 km (25 mi) from the finish, on the Puig Major climb.
Hermans stated that he had not felt confident going into the sprint, but he proved fresher than breakaway companions Arkaitz Durán and Xavier Tondó, winning the race.
[11] Later in February, Hunter won the field sprint finish to the second day of the Tour de Mumbai, restyled for 2011 as two one-day races in a similar vein to the Vuelta a Mallorca.
The team also sent squads to Paris–Brussels, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, Paris–Bourges and the Giro di Lombardia, but finished no higher than 12th in any of these races.
Despite claiming that he was "definitely not flying halfway around the world to sit in the bunch,"[15] Armstrong only showed combativity at one moment during the race, during an ultimately unsuccessful breakaway attempt during stage 5 to Willunga.
[18] The next day, a second place left him tied for first overall with Ben Swift and Matthew Goss, and gave him the ochre jersey as race leader.
[25] With a squad made up of younger riders, the team was quite successful at the Three Days of West Flanders stage race.
[33] Leipheimer had finished well-placed in the race's mountainous third stage, ceding 23 seconds to former teammate Alberto Contador but occupying a podium position, third, with the result.
He had spent the night before in the hospital with an abdominal sub-obstruction, an injury dating back to his childhood when he was kicked in the stomach by a horse.
[35] Being physically unable to complete the race cost him his podium position and the team 70 UCI World Tour points.
He had entered the stage as one of a great number of riders within ten seconds of pending race leader Bert De Backer.
[37] The team entered the Tour of the Basque Country in April with defending champion Horner heading their squad, along with Klöden.
Both finished near stage 1 winner Joaquim Rodríguez, with Horner a second back and Klöden tied on the same time.
[39] Rodríguez is a vastly inferior time trialist to Horner, Klöden, and the other riders who populated the top of the overall standings going in, meaning the overall victory was very much in play.
Horner won this stage 1'15" clear of any other riders, a massive time gap in a race which has historically been decided by seconds.