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Giordana Racing Team

professional cycling team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ1995269 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Velosure Giordana Pro Cycling Team (UCI team code: VGR) are a British UCI Continental cycling team.

Profile

The Velosure Giordana cycling team are sponsored by Node4, a Data Centre Services provider. The team rides senior professional events in the United Kingdom and Europe, other than the Grand Tours and UCI ProTour races. They also ride track events such as the Revolution.

In 2012 the team changed its name from Motorpoint to Node4-Giordana. In 2014 It became Velosure Giordana

Major wins

2013 team

As of 15 January 2013.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Giordana Racing Team” as professional cycling team. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2014, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Giordana, Racing and Team can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as professional cycling team. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1995269. The first chronological checks are 2012, 2014 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Giordana Racing Team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.