Dave Brailsford, General Manager of Team Sky, has called the opening three months to 2015 Sky’s “best ever start to a season”.

Already in 2015 Richie Porte has won a stage Down Under and at Algarve, plus he took the Australian National Time Trial. Chris Froome took a stage win and the GC ahead of Alberto Contador at the Ruta del Sol. Ian Stannard won a second consecutive Het Nieuwsblad and Geraint Thomas took a stage on route to the GC win in Algarve.

He told Sky Sports News HQ: "It's been our best start to the season ever. We've had more victories at this point of the year than we've ever had so it's been a terrific start.”

"Last year wasn't the year we had the previous couple of years so we worked very hard through the off-season winter to regroup and reset our goals. Everybody's coming out fighting and the results are starting to come from the right work."

Bradley Wiggins is hoping to win in the Rainbow Jersey in tomorrow’s Paris-Nice prologue, and Brailsford says the fact that it is his last stage race for the team is giving him extra motivation.

"Bradley has been an iconic figure for us in Team Sky and for British cycling. He'll start this weekend in the Paris-Nice stage race in his last stage race for Team Sky. He's won it before and he's ready for it.”

Then Wiggins will ride his Classics, where his biggest goal is his final race for the team: Paris-Roubaix, where he was ninth last year and many are tipping him as a big favourite for the race. Brailsford sees no reason why the Brit cannot win the hell of the North.

"Then we'll go on Paris-Roubaix which will be his last race for Sky - a big one-day classic and he's ready for that too. It'll be sad to see him go, that's for sure. There's no reason why he can't go out with a win. He's prepared well, he's focused well and when he does that, he's terrific with preparation. He needs a big stage to perform and Paris-Roubaix is certainly that."

While Paris-Nice is taking place, Chris Froome heads to Tirreno-Adriatico, where he will face a really tough battle for the GC win, when he rides against the other three members of the Big Four, the best GC riders in the world: Nairo Quintana, Vincenzo Nibali and Contador.

"It's a big battle with the first between the four and hopefully we can come out on top. The way to think about it is you want fierce competition. It brings the best out. We know we need a tough competition to bring the best out of ourselves."