Lampre-Merida will have two cards to play in the Canadian races in which the team of the manager Brent Copeland will participate.

Sports director Simone Pedrazzini will rely on the top class of Rui Costa and Diego Ulissi in the GP Québec and GP Montréal, both World Tour races.

In addition to the Portuguese champion and the winner of 4 stages of the Giro d'Italia, the Lampre-Merida selection will contain quality riders like Bono, Cimolai, Ferrari, Mori, Pibernik and Polanc (the latter in the main breakaways in both races in 2014).

GP Québec will be raced on a 12.6 km circuit which will be covered 16 times for a total lenght of 201.6 km, while the GP Montréal's total length will be 205.7 km after 17 laps of a 12.1 km circuit.

The line-ups for the two races:

Rui Costa, Diego Ulissi, Matteo Bono, Davide Cimolai, Roberto Ferrari, Manuele Mori, Luka Pibernik and Jan aPolanc.