In a difficult moment like the one Italian cycling is experiencing, every positive news has double relevance. While on one side the Solution Tech Vini Fantini is climbing back up the team rankings and has currently risen to the 30th place, the last good position for aspiring to a wildcard for a major Tour, on the other hand, there is confirmation that in 2026 the MBH Bank Ballan CSB Colpack will make the category jump and move up to ProTeam.

The Italian-Hungarian project was supposed to make this leap this year, but the necessary adjustments convinced the managers to delay by a year. Now everything seems to suggest that the moment has arrived.

The first confirmation came from the team manager Antonio Bevilacqua who this morning informed Stefano Garzelli, a Rai commentator who discussed it live during the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia.

Further confirmations come from Hungary, where the Giro has started today. The trip to Hungary allowed the team's top management to meet patron Gabor Deak. The quality of the Under-Elite roster, the growth of a promising group of Hungarian riders, and the shared will to further develop the project have pushed them to make a decision that will be officially announced soon. Moreover, Bevilacqua and his staff are working on new negotiations that can give additional momentum to a project with the ambition to grow quickly.