Team Colombia has already targeted a Tour de France invite, with the Tour being labelled a “Climbers Tour”. But first, the aim is to be reinvited to the Giro d’Italia and to take a thus far elusive stage win.

“The race organizers have a good understanding and consider us after three years in Europe,” general manager Claudio Corti told VeloNews Thursday morning.

“Clearly, my goal is to see team Colombia in the Giro d’Italia again. If we receive two grand tour invitations, then even better. The Vuelta a España and Tour de France organizers know that we want to race.”

The Pro Continental team has raced the last two Giro d’Italias and were only created by Corti in 2012, based in Italy so that the team of all South Americans could find it easier to progress to racing permanently in Europe.

The team was successful from the start, with Esteban Chaves winning GP Camaiore and a stage of the Vuelta a Burgos, plus Darwin Atapuma took a stage of the Giro del Trentino all in the teams first year. Atapuma captured their first WorldTour win a year later at the Tour of Poland.

In the Giro, Fabio Duarte has been close to a stage win for the last few years and Jarlinson Panatano was third on the climb to Oropa this year. The win cant be far away, but with several big names having departed over the last few years, like Atapuma and Chaves in 2013 and Duarte and Pantano leaving this offseason, will it come in 2015?

“I think [race director, Christian] Prudhomme wants the Colombian team, but there are many things he has to think about. The organizer has to please the French teams, it has to invite this or that team,” Corti added.

“I’m not going to worry about the other second-division teams, NetApp-Bora, MTN, or Bretagne. We need to race and compete then it’s a matter for the Tour organizer to decide which team they want in its races. We also have the Giro and Vuelta to think about.”

“But it’s the off-season and my mind is not fixed on racing the Tour de France. They know we want to race. It’s not that I don’t ask for an invitation each year or that I don’t want to race the Tour de France,” Corti explained.

“I think that we’ll show on the roads that our team has a certain value. We have the right mix for 2015 with mature cyclists like Alex Cano, Fernando Pedraza, Jorge Camilo Castiblanco, those cyclists who have experience are needed for grand tours.”