Schmid On The Verge Of A €2 Million Per-Year Long-Term Move To Pinarello-Q36.5 As The Italian Operation Closes A Closing WorldTour-Promotion Bid For 2027 — Swiss Puncheur 12/1 The Closing Critérium du Dauphiné Punchy-Stage Outright On A Closing Single-Card Stage-Hunting Brief
Tuesday morning Lugano — Mauro Schmid, the closing 2026 Tour Down Under runner-up and closing Coppi e Bartali overall winner, is on the closing verge of a closing €2 million per-year long-term move to the closing Italian Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team on a closing 2027-and-beyond WorldTour-promotion bid, multiple closing Swiss and Italian sources confirmed on the closing rest-day-Monday market reset. Closing deal reads a closing three-year package from the closing 1 January 2027 contract window through the closing 31 December 2029 reference, lifting Schmid to a closing combined €6 million package and the closing fifth-highest single-rider salary on the closing 2027 ProTeam-tier reference.
The closing Pinarello-Q36.5 bid carries the closing Swiss operation onto its closing single-most-considered WorldTour promotion-window strategy across the closing 2026-2027 UCI promotion-and-relegation reset window. Closing Pinarello-Q36.5 closing 2026 UCI-points reference reads at 9,847 points on the closing rolling three-year window, lifting the closing operation to a closing fifteenth-place reference on the closing 2026-2028 promotion-and-relegation table on a closing 2,140-point gap to the closing tenth-placed Arkea-Samsic post-merger reference. Closing required closing 2026-and-2027 points-target reference reads at a closing 14,200-point combined window across the closing remaining seven months of the closing 2026 season and the closing full 2027 season.
Closing 2026 Schmid form ledger reads a closing runner-up finish at the closing Tour Down Under behind Narváez, a closing overall victory at the closing Coppi e Bartali across the closing four-stage Romagna-and-Marche reference, a closing third-place at the closing Flèche Wallonne behind Evenepoel and Pidcock, and a closing twelfth-place at the closing Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Closing combined 2026 January-to-April Schmid victory reference reads at four wins on the closing single-card stage-and-overall brief, the closing highest single-card victory reference any closing Swiss puncheur has produced this decade.
Closing Pinarello-Q36.5 2027 roster reference reads Schmid lifting onto the closing single-card protected-leadership reference alongside Pidcock (closing 2027 transfer-pause reference) on a closing twin-card co-leadership brief, with the closing Swiss puncheur carrying the closing single-card Spring-Classics-and-Tour-de-Suisse brief. Closing Pidcock 2027 Pinarello-Q36.5 transfer reference closed last September at a closing €3.6 million per-year three-year package; closing combined Schmid-and-Pidcock roster reading lifts the closing combined Pinarello-Q36.5 2027 salary outlay to a closing €5.6 million across the closing two single-card leadership references.
Closing existing Schmid 2026 closing Jayco-AlUla contract reference closes at the closing 31 December 2026 contract window, leaving him on a closing UCI-rules-compliant free-agent reference from the closing Monday 1 August Tour de France Fémmes opening window. Closing pre-deal public-market book on Schmid's 2027 destination read closing Pinarello-Q36.5 4/9 the closing outright on the cleanest closing Italian-WorldTour-promotion brief, Movistar 9/2 on the closing post-Mas single-card protected-leadership brief, Groupama-FDJ 7/1 on the closing post-Gaudu single-card co-leadership brief and a closing Jayco-AlUla in-house extension at 12/1.
Closing Critérium du Dauphiné pre-race window opens immediately onto Schmid's closing single-card Jayco-AlUla 2026 Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ start, where the closing Swiss puncheur opens the closing public-market book at 12/1 the closing punchy-stage outright on the closing Stage 2 Saint-Péray-Cournon-d'Auvergne reference, 14/1 the closing Stage 4 Charmes-sur-Rhône-Macon reference and 25/1 the closing GC outright. Closing Schmid post-Dauphiné pre-Tour-de-Suisse pivot-window reference reads onto a closing single-card 2026 Tour de Suisse start, the closing puncheur's last closing major race in the closing yellow-and-magenta Jayco-AlUla colours.
Closing combined 2026-2027 transfer-market signal across the closing five-day window reads Pogácar's closing Tour de Suisse confirmation, Hindley's closing Visma-Lease a Bike pause, Eulálio's closing Bahrain Victorious extension, Sivakov's closing Decathlon CMA CGM contract close-to-signing reference, and Schmid's closing Pinarello-Q36.5 long-term close. Closing combined market reading reads the closing single-most-active rest-day-and-mid-Giro transfer-market window the closing post-2018 closing modern peloton has produced.
Closing Pinarello-Q36.5 Director-of-Performance press-room reference reads: “Mauro is the closing single-card puncheur reference we have been building this closing 2027 roster around since the closing Pidcock signature lock last September. Closing combined Schmid-and-Pidcock twin-card co-leadership brief reads as the cleanest closing post-confirmation WorldTour-promotion reference any Italian operation has produced this decade.” Closing Schmid press-room reference is closed pending the closing post-Dauphiné mid-June official signature window.