Volker Wessel was one of the outstanding teams in the Tour of Chongming Island. Although somewhat overshadowed by Serratigit-WNT, who won all three stages and the GC, the Dutch team was led by sprinters Sophie van Rooyen and Scarlett Suellen, who finished 4th and 5th in the first stage, 2nd and 3rd in the third stage, with Suellen taking the white U23 jersey in 3rd place overall. Van Rooyen took one more place. Van Rooyen dropped one more place and Anne Kneinenburg took the QOM jersey.

“Our plan was to go for GC with a sprint finish and bonus seconds in the intermediate plan. In the second stage, we took the wrong road in the sprint and didn't get the result. In other words, GC was gone. But we still had the white jersey, and we wanted to get the QOM and go for the scarlet and the stage win,” team director Raymond Rolle explained to Cycling News.

Rolle dismissed speculation that the team had forfeited the Simac Ladies Tour in his home country last week in order to win UCI points: “We had a three-team lineup with Varese, Simac, and China, but cancelled it because six riders did not fit in Simac. I think we have done the most races of all the teams and the plan was always to go to China.”

The Volker Vessels team was included in the initial list of teams for the Simac Ladies Tour, but withdrew; for the 2024 season, the team will have done 112 UCI races and several non-UCI races in the Netherlands or Belgium, which is tied between 80 and 100 days significantly more than most women's WorldTour teams.

The team is in good spirits as they travel to Guangxi for the final one-day race of the season, the Tour of Guangxi, and in the UCI rankings, they are already ahead of the Women's WorldTour team, Roland, in the China race (the Norwegian team is not racing). Once the points from the China race (the Norwegian team is not racing) are calculated, Uno-X Mobility will overtake them as well.

Entering 2024, the team was only fifth in the Women's Continental Team standings, missing out on an automatic invitation slot and a wildcard to the Tour de France Femme. This was a blow to the team (then still called Parkhotel Valkenburg), which had produced many WWT riders, including Demi Vollering, Lorena Wiebes, Misha Bredewald, Pauliena Reuhackers, and Carline Swinkels, missed the start of the Dutch Grande Pearl.

In 2025, however, an automatic invitation to the Women's World Tour race is virtually assured, with the last hurdle being registration in the Women's Pro Team category.

“Hopefully, I can turn pro next year and get a wild card with the points I collect. I am looking forward to next year with the Talent Factory,” Rolle said.