Slipstream Sports

Slipstream Sports, LLC, is a highly progressive sports management company dedicated solely to promoting the ethical growth of cycling. Slipstream Sports owns and manages the Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling Team. The Cannondale-Drapac Professional Cycling Team is an American-registered World Tour racing team. It competes at the highest level of the sport and strives to be open, attacking, and entertaining. In the 2017 season, it has the youngest roster, lowest budget and one of the most diverse squads in the WorldTour. Its riders come from the United States, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Colombia and beyond. As stated, the team is managed by Slipstream Sports, the brainchild of Jonathan Vaughters and Doug Ellis, who founded the company in 2005 on the belief there was a better way to run a cycling team. First and foremost, the team has always been unwavering in its commitment to anti-doping, and was the first professional cycling team to institute its own internal testing protocols. Slipstream Sports entered another iteration in 2016, with the addition of the Drapac partnership, making Australian Michael Drapac a co-owner of the Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling team. The partnership goes well beyond just a name on the jersey, however, as co-owner Michael Drapac’s philosophy of sustainable-athlete development is one that Slipstream wholly supports. Michael Drapac’s sustainable-athlete initiative began in 2004, with the launch of his inaugural team to develop world-class student cyclists. Adding another dimension to this partnership is the Drapac-Pat’s Veg Holistic Development Team, where riders balance racing and training while pursuing a college degree or a trade certification. Members of the team will also be given every opportunity to progress to the Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling team. It’s a different way of doing things, yes, but neither Drapac nor Slipstream have ever been conventional. See you on the roads.