Albabici, Limar, Sci'Con  and Hibros Sport are pleased to continue sponsorship of Team Type 1. 

“Our goal is to inspire people with diabetes around the world to take control of their health through diet, exercise and proper health care,” said team co-founder Phil Southerland who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at seven months old. “As a professional team, racing against the world’s best cyclists, we’ll be able to deliver that message to a much wider audience.”

Team Type 1 is expanding to include a women's professional team, a triathlon team, an elite/development team and a second squad for RAAM ("Team Type 2").

Albabici provides the team with the entire line of Hibros Sport products, with the Limar Ultralight Pro 104 helmet, and with the SCI'CON Atlas, Atlas Compact and S-Travel bags..

Team Type 1 History

Founders Phil Southerland and Joe Eldridge - Team Type 1 founders Phil Southerland and Joe Eldridge met at an Auburn-University of Georgia collegiate cycling race and founded Team Type 1 in 2004.

Race Across America: 2006 - In 2006, Team Type 1 won the corporate challenge (eight-person team) division of the Race Across America (RAAM) in five days 16 hours and four minutes (22.36 mph average). Team members were: Linda Demma, Joe Eldridge, Jay Hewitt, Bobby Heyer, Steve Holmes, Pratt Rather, Phil Southerland and Troy Willard.

Race Across America: 2007 - In 2007, Team Type 1 (officially referred to as “Team Type 1-monitored by: Freestyle”) won the eight-person team division of RAAM in a then-transcontinental record crossing time of five days, 15 hours and 43 minutes (22.42 mph average). Team members were: Nathan Bartels, Joe Eldridge, Monique Hanley, Bobby Heyer, Andy Mead, Bob Schrank, Phil Southerland, Matt Vogel and Kerry White.

Race Across America: 2008 - In 2008, Team Type 1 finished second in the eight-person team division of RAAM in five days, 13 hours and 40 minutes (22.55 mph average). The Byggkjøp/BMC Cycling Team won in a record time of five days, nine hours and 43 minutes (23.24 mph).Team members were: Alex Bowden, Matt Brooks, Monique Hanley, Timothy Hargrave, Andy Mead, Tim Powell, Bob Schrank and Mark Suprenant.

Professional Team: 2008 - In 2008, Team Type 1 registered as a UCI professional continental team with USA Cycling. Team managers were: Tom Schuler, general manager; Marco Colbert, assistant general manager; Ed Beamon, sport director; Vassili Davidenko, assistant sport director Shawn Milne scored Team Type 1’s first win in a professional race on March 13, 2008, when he won a field sprint at the end of the fifth stage of the Tour de Taiwan. The stage was a 92-mile (148 km) circuit race through Hsinchu City. For the season, Team Type 1 won 45 races and scored 101 podium finishes.