Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors) wins stage 3 of Giro d'Italia 2018(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Fernando Gaviria punches the air in delight after taking the win on stage 1 at the 2018 Tour of California(Image credit: Getty Images)
Quick-Step Floors' Fernando Gaviria wins stage 5 of the 2018 Tour of California in Elk Grove(Image credit: Getty Images)
Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors) wins stage 13 of Giro d'Italia 2018(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
It was the bike throw wot won it: Quick-Step's Fernando Gaviria times it to perfection to take his third stage win at the 2018 Tour of California on stage 7, denying Max Walscheid (Sunweb) his first(Image credit: Getty Images)
Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step Floors) on the Tour des Fjords podium after stage 2(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors) takes his fourth Giro d'Italia stage win(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Maximilian Schachmann (Quick-Step Floors) wins stage 18 at the Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Quick-Step Floors wins Hammer Series Limburg(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) wins stage 4 at Criterium du Dauphine(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Quick-Step Floors on their way to winning the opening team time trial at Adriatica Ionica Race(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Luxembourg champion Bob Jungels (Quick-Step Floors) riding to fourth place(Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
Home gold for Elia Viviani(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Bob Jungels (Quick-Step Floors)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Michael Morkov of Denmark and Team Quick-Step Floors (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors) wins the opening stage at the 2018 Tour de France(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors) wins stage 4 at the Tour de France(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Julian Alaphilippe wins stage 10 at the Tour de France(Image credit: Getty Images)
Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) wins stage 16 at the Tour de France in Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) attacks from the breakaway and leads the Tour de France stage 16 before crashing on the descent into Bagnères-de-Luchon(Image credit: Getty Images)
At times, they have looked unstoppable, with wins intersecting at races that overlap, such as Viviani's win at the Dubai Tour and Gaviria's victories at the Oro y Paz at the start of the season, and again Gaviria winning at the Tour of California while Viviani was hoovering up stage victories at the Giro in May.
The team may still have had a little way to go to have beaten the 84 wins taken by HTC-Columbia during the 2009 season, but having beaten their own team record of 61 victories from 2014, and having taken first place in the UCI WorldTour teams classification, Quick-Step are unlikely to have too many sleepless nights.
Indeed, team boss Patrick Lefevere was nothing short of effusive on the team's website.
"It's truly extraordinary what we have achieved in 2018, and the whole squad is part of this success," he said.
"It's fantastic proof of what you can accomplish through team spirit, hard work and dedication from everybody involved, and an unstoppable motivation to win cycling races. It's very much a once in a lifetime season."
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