Caleb Ewan of Orica Greenedge may only be a neo-pro for 2015, but he isn’t short of ambitions for his debut year.

"Next year I am hoping to win some stuff, the team isn't putting me in the hardest races of the year," Ewan told Cyclingnews. "I'll have a good mix of some harder races and some easier races that I can go well in."

While Ewan may not lead the team in the national road race, he is likely the leader for the national criterium, a race he won at U23 level last year.

"Steele von Hoff is going really well and he won it last year. Shannon Johnson and Neil van der Ploeg will be among the other key riders to watch," Ewan said of his rivals for the criterium title. "So there are a few good guys out there, and a lot of the teams like Avanti and Drapac who will both be there trying to win that race."

"It'll be hard competing against these teams if I'm by myself. But yeah, I'll be aiming for the criterium next month.”

Ewan has set a target of “five or six win” from the 60 odd racing days he has planned. If he pulls that off, his neo-pro year will well and truly be a success.

"They are all high level races but they are really good stepping stones for me to realistically have a go at winning and that's what I need for the first part of the year," he said of the Australian races. "I need to build up the confidence and then slowly take it to higher level races, instead of the team taking me to a really hard race straight away and smashing my confidence."