Despite the past continuing to rear its head, Brailsford is determined to focus on the future and building on the success that Team Sky enjoyed in 2012.
With a first Grand Tour victory secured by Bradley Wiggins in the Tour de France, Brailsford is now expanding the squad's horizons even further.
He explained: "It was quite a 2012, to be fair, and it was very, very enjoyable. We have tried to learn from that and want to move forward now, look at our goals and ambitions for this coming season.
"The classics are important to us, the Giro d'Italia is important to us and the Tour de France is important to us.
"Certainly, the Giro, Tour and Vuelta treble would be the highest possible ambition, but I think this year we are quite serious about the tours of Italy and France.
"We haven't pulled off one of the big one-day Classics so that is one of the big ambitions, too."
