the mid-season recruitment of south african brendon davids helped continue the team's run of success. he took the team's first australian national road series win at battle recharge in september. this was followed by a win for davids in the general classification at the union cycliste internationale 2.2 ranked jelajah malaysia. davids won stage 3 of the race with a solo breakaway, and clinched the overall classification by 24 seconds over colombian víctor niño. teammate ryan thomas won the youth classification at the event.