Inside the Beehive: the podcast

With Wout van Aert, Jonas Vingegaard, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Matthew Brennan, we’ve already heard from the main protagonists of our team over the past year. But what about the man in the team car behind most of this season’s successes? We joined him in what he calls his living room - the team bus - to talk about winning Grand Tours, lessons learned for next year, and above all: how do you build a team for 2026? How does the selection process work? Where did we need to improve? And how do you find the right profiles to make a team truly click? We take a closer look at every reinforcement for 2026. Make sure to follow our channels for more episodes of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes. Wout van Aert, Jonas Vingegaard, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Matthew Brennan also join in the team bus.

Jonas Vingegaard joins us on the team bus for the fourth episode of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes. He turns out to be a fan of a permanent podcast setup in the team bus. We discuss his full 2025 season, including our aggressive racing style at the Tour de France, following his racing intuition during La Vuelta a España, and traveling through Japan completely anonymous. Make sure to follow our channels for more episodes of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes. Wout van Aert, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Matthew Brennan and Grischa Niermann also join in the team bus.

Wout van Aert joins us on the team bus for the third episode of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes. We talk about the many hours spent in the bus and on the road, his off-season and how his winter shape compares to last year. And of course, we look back on two of his most spectacular stage wins at the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France. Make sure to follow our channels for more episodes of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes. Jonas Vingegaard, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Matthew Brennan and Grischa Niermann also join in the team bus.

In this second episode of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes, we sit down with Tour de France Femmes winner Pauline Ferrand-Prévot in our team bus. She looks back on an incredible first season with Team Visma | Lease a Bike, winning both Paris-Roubaix and the Tour de France Femmes. She explains more about her transition from mountainbiking back to road cycling, integrating in and building a Grand Tour winning team and her special relationship with Marianne Vos. Make sure to follow our channels for more episodes of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes. Wout van Aert, Jonas Vingegaard, Matthew Brennan and Grischa Niermann also join in the team bus.

In this first episode of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes, we sit down with breakthrough rider Matthew Brennan (20) inside the team bus. Brennan looks back on his incredible first season as a professional, including 14 victories, what he learned, what he still wants to improve, and what it’s like learning from the best riders in the world. He also reveals the story of knocking on Wout van Aert’s door on the morning of Paris-Roubaix, and reacts to the big news of his new contract, keeping him with the team until at least the end of 2029. Make sure to follow our channels for more episodes of Inside the Beehive: The Off-Season Tapes. Wout van Aert, Jonas Vingegaard, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Grischa Niermann will also join in the team bus.

What a way to end this Tour de France. Wout van Aert wins on a heroic day in the streets of Paris. A day that will go down in history. Not only because we have won the final stage, it's party time. Demi Schreuder gives us an insight into what she has planned for our riders, staff and partners tonight.

Some crazy breakaway racing painted stage 20 of the Tour de France. We had Matteo Jorgenson up the road, but he blew his bullet too early and never recovered. We hear from Matteo and also Grischa Niermann later. And we also talk to Tijn Betten, one of our cameramen in the Tour. As you are used to from us, we will deliver a Tour de France documentary with all the behind the scenes access. But exactly how many hours of footage do we use to get to that one hour documentary?

No sick cows on the side of the road of the shortened stage 19 of the Tour de France, but also no real GC battle anymore. As we hear from Jonas Vingegaard himself, his focus was more on a stage win than on gaining time today. And we also speak to our fourth sports director Arthur van Dongen about his role in the Tour. But also: did he get a chance to even the score with Frans Maassen?

Stage 18 of the Tour de France was long and hard. Our team went in fully committed, had a plan, sent guys up the road, but in the end it all comes down to those two exceptional riders in this year’s race. We hear from Jonas Vingegaard after the stage. As often, Jonas talks about his feeling immediately after the finish, still the most interesting factor during a bike race. But we try to capture and analyse more and more details about a bike race in data. During the race, we have our control room set up in our office in Den Bosch analysing what goes on and communicating with the team car in France. In this episode we speak with our performance analyst Vincent Laporte about his work for the team and specifically in that control room today.

We have a direct connection with the team bus again. Sports director Marc Reef talks us through today, tomorrow and all the rest while he makes the travel from the Rhône Valley to the Alps. And also: why do we actually need four sports directors in the Tour de France?