Daniel Martin hopes for a great 2016 season with his new team. The Irish rider expects that Etixx-Quick Step will help him to reach the heights he knows he is capable of.

"It’s great to come into an organisation that are so exciting to work with and more importantly they believe that at the age of 29 I haven’t reached my full potential yet, because that’s my belief as well," he told Cycling Weekly. "I believe that I’ve got the talent that I haven’t fully utilised; hopefully this is the correct environment for me to fill in the gaps in my palmares and fulfil my potential as a rider."

"I want to achieve more consistency [at Etixx]," he added. "I perhaps should have won Liege a second time and I can definitely win it again. I’m very quick to forget – people tell me that I won Liege, but I don’t want to hear that, I just want to win it again. That’s how I deal with success or failure. Once I cross the finish line that’s it, I’m done. You learn lessons from it but there’s no point mulling over what you should have done differently."

"Etixx definitely suits my style. I race on instinct and on heart and that’s perhaps something that I didn’t do last year. I thought things through and I missed the opportunity, or I went too late because I hadn’t pre-empted the other attacks. Now I’m going to go back to really enjoy my racing."