Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. After the season of 1983, the TI-Raleigh team split up because of tension between former world champion Jan Raas and team leader Peter Post, with seven cyclists following Post to the new Panasonic-team and six cyclists joining Raas to the Kwantum team. The team captains of the Kwantum team were Guillaume Driessens, Jan Gisbers and Walter Godefroot. In their first year, the team managed to win the red jersey for intermediate sprints and one stage in the 1984 Tour de France, the Amstel Gold Race and the Dutch national road championship.After the 1984 season, Jan Raas stopped as an active cyclist and became team manager. In 1985 the Kwantum team had a successful year. Victories included two Tour de France stage, the Tour of Luxembourg, Paris-Tours, Paris-Brussels, the Tirreno-Adriatico, the Tour of Belgium, again the Dutch national road championship, and the World cycling championship.