Porte, 31, will receive equal support to American Tejay van Garderen in his career-first bid for the maillot jaune. The team will include Australian time trial champion Rohan Dennis, Brent Bookwalter, Marcus Burghardt, Damiano Caruso, Amaël Moinard, Michael Schär and Greg Van Avermaet to support the pair’s dual general classification bid. “To know that Tejay and I will be supported by such a strong group of guys is really motivating,” Porte said. 

“I've already raced with these seven riders a lot this season and I'm confident that we are going into the Tour de France in a really good position.”

Porte just missed out on a podium finish at the Criterium du Dauphine earlier this month, challenging defending Tour champion and former teammate Chris Froome in the mountain stages.

The Tour starts on July 2 and runs through to July 24.