Inside the Beehive: the podcast

With Wout van Aert, Jonas Vingegaard, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Matthew Brennan, we’ve already heard from the main protagonists of our team over the past year. But what about the man in the team car behind most of this season’s successes? We joined him in what he calls his living room - the team bus - to talk about winning Grand Tours, lessons learned for next year, and above all: how do you build a team for 2026? How does the selection process work? Where did we need to improve? And how do you find the right profiles to make a team truly click? We take a closer look at every reinforcement for 2026. Make sure to follow our channels for more episodes of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes. Wout van Aert, Jonas Vingegaard, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Matthew Brennan also join in the team bus.

Wout van Aert joins us on the team bus for the third episode of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes. We talk about the many hours spent in the bus and on the road, his off-season and how his winter shape compares to last year. And of course, we look back on two of his most spectacular stage wins at the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France. Make sure to follow our channels for more episodes of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes. Jonas Vingegaard, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Matthew Brennan and Grischa Niermann also join in the team bus.

In this first episode of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes, we sit down with breakthrough rider Matthew Brennan (20) inside the team bus. Brennan looks back on his incredible first season as a professional, including 14 victories, what he learned, what he still wants to improve, and what it’s like learning from the best riders in the world. He also reveals the story of knocking on Wout van Aert’s door on the morning of Paris-Roubaix, and reacts to the big news of his new contract, keeping him with the team until at least the end of 2029. Make sure to follow our channels for more episodes of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes. Wout van Aert, Jonas Vingegaard, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Grischa Niermann will also join in the team bus.

Some crazy breakaway racing painted stage 20 of the Tour de France. We had Matteo Jorgenson up the road, but he blew his bullet too early and never recovered. We hear from Matteo and also Grischa Niermann later. And we also talk to Tijn Betten, one of our cameramen in the Tour. As you are used to from us, we will deliver a Tour de France documentary with all the behind the scenes access. But exactly how many hours of footage do we use to get to that one hour documentary?

Stage 18 of the Tour de France was long and hard. Our team went in fully committed, had a plan, sent guys up the road, but in the end it all comes down to those two exceptional riders in this year’s race. We hear from Jonas Vingegaard after the stage. As often, Jonas talks about his feeling immediately after the finish, still the most interesting factor during a bike race. But we try to capture and analyse more and more details about a bike race in data. During the race, we have our control room set up in our office in Den Bosch analysing what goes on and communicating with the team car in France. In this episode we speak with our performance analyst Vincent Laporte about his work for the team and specifically in that control room today.

Still buzzing after stage 16 of the Tour de France, where we saw attack after attack, with Victor Campenaerts and Tiesj Benoot in a crucial role as satellite riders. We hear from Jonas Vingegaard after the stage and have a call with Tiesj Benoot from the team bus on his way to the next hotel. How do you prepare for that important push you need to do when Jonas approaches? How do you time that? And we hear how he experiences the Tour de France so far.

The parcours was brutal, the racing was brutal, the weather was brutal and our riders confirmed afterwards that stage 14 of the Tour de France was indeed brutal. Jonas was the first to attack, but in the end he and Pogacar proved the strongest of the GC contenders once again. And after all that racing some delicious food was waiting for our riders once again. Thanks to our performance chefs and their creative process. We spoke to Karin Lambrechtse, one of our two chefs in this Tour de France.

Today was a tough pill to swallow for us. The team did what they could, showed that fighting spirit that they have been showing the whole Tour de France so far. But in the end Pogacar proved to be stronger than Jonas today. We hear from Grischa Niermann and Sepp Kuss and we call with Per Strand Hagenes, because we also have 21 riders in our roster who are not in the Tour de France.

We have won! Simon Yates takes our first stage win of this Tour de France after an impressive day up front. We call in with him while he travels to the next hotel. And we hear from Nathan Van Hooydonck about his new job in the team, his work during this Tour de France and how he experienced today’s win.

All Belgian media wanted to know how he felt after his second spot in stage 8 of the Tour de France. We translate it for you in this episode. Next to that we have a chat with our performance nutritionist Gabriel Martins about his work, our riders' preferences and the importance of not only healthy but also tasty food.

Today’s episode turns pink for a bit. We had a crazy day of racing in Normandy, with Giro-winner Simon Yates in the breakaway. Next to the Tour de France, the women are currently in their fight for pink in Italy. Marianne Vos took a second spot today in stage 5. We hear from both Simon as women’s sports director Jan Boven.

We have video maker, beer brewer, dj, creator influencer and entrepreneur Rob Van Impe, better known Average Rob, with us today. Together with him and two of his friends, we spend an entire day in our hospitality program, with former rider Theo Eltink as our driver. We hear about his experiences, love for cycling and view on this year's Tour de France.

A third spot for Jonas in the second stage of the 2025 Tour de France, but did we also manage to capture the perfect shot of this performance? We talk about with team photographer Bram Berkien in today's episode.