In 2016 Moreno Hofland hopes to do the Tour de France for the first time in his career. The 24-year-old Dutchman has still no guarantee of a Tour Selection, but wants to secure his spot in the first months of the new season. "The Dutch championships and the Tour de France are my main goals this season," he stated at the team presentation of LottoNL-Jumbo.

“I want to be strong immediately in the beginning of the season because that works the best for me,” he said. “That means that the races in Qatar and Oman, the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, the Volta Limburg Classic, Tirreno-Adriatico and the Scheldeprijs are immediately important for me. After that period, we’re going to decide if I will ride the Tour de France or the Vuelta a España."

The sprinter will start the season without any injuries. “I’m in good condition. I struggled with some back problems at the end of last season, but I took enough rest and did some necessary exercises to build my core stability.”

The team wants to rebuild its sprint train in 2016 and Hofland will be one of the lead sprinters. Hofland will be played there as a finisher. “We built up some experience with creating a perfect lead-out when Theo Bos was part of our team,” sports director Nico Verhoeven said. “We’re going to focus more on that part of racing. With Moreno Hofland, we have a very good sprinter and with Dylan Groenewegen we have another trump this year. Tom Van Asbroeck is a third one who should be able to win stages in the sprint. The whole team must be prepared to sprint because we will approach a lot of races like that.”