Strade Bianche will be the first Italian World Tour race of the season, a big start of a month full of wonderful Italian races. Juan Josè Lobato, Eduard Grosu and Simone Ponzi will lead the team in the race of Siena that will be broadcasted live by the Italian Television Rai and by Eurosport.
A week-end of Italian races for the NIPPO Vini Fantini Europa Ovini team. On Saturday an #OrangeBlue line-up will be involved in the important race organized by RCS Sport, the Strade Bianche. On Sunday an important race of the Ciclismo Cup will take place with the edition n.41 of GP Industria & Artigianato. Today is official the first line-up for the Saturday race in Siena.
STRADE BIANCHE, THE LINE-UP.
184km to ride, with 11 fractions and 63 km of dirty roads, that it means the 34% of the full race. An enviroment very fascinating for the public, very hard for the riders, but for this reason a quite recent race as the Strade Bianche is yet a big monument and World Tour race of the International calendar. The #OrangeBlue team will afford the World Tour race of the Italian calendar 2018 with a complete line-up. After the debut in France with the Italian-Japanese team, the experience of Juan Josè Lobato will be at disposal of the team on the roads of Siena. Together with him, also the Rumanian rider Eduard Grosu will be one important rider of the team. After the second place in one stage of the Tour de La Provence he is also a rider for dirty roads, as Rumanian National Champion of Ciclocross. The experience of Simone Ponzi, the determination of Marco Tizza and Sho Hatsuyama, the young talent of Damiano Cima and Joan Bou will compete the line-up.
The complete line-up: Juan José Lobato, Eduard Grosu, Simone Ponzi, Damiano Cima, Joan Bon, Marco Tizza e Sho Hatsuyama.
DS: Mario Manzoni
THE DECLARATION.
The #OrangeBlue Sports Director in these two important races will be Mario Manzoni. Here his words looking forward to this week-end of big competitions: “We are going to approach two very important races. At Strade Bianche we will do our best with the international experience of Juan Josè Lobato and Simone Ponzi, supported by Eduard Grosu and the other young riders of the team. Strade Bianche will be a strong and intense race that we want to honor in the best way as possibile.”
RACES INFO AND BROADCAST.
The week-end of Italian races will be Broadcasted live by Italian and International Television. The Strade Bianche, that will start in Siena on Saturday 3rd at 10.45 am, will arrive in Piazza del Campo in Siena around 3.30 pm, after 184 km of race with 63 km of dirty roads. The race will be broadcasted by Rai 2 starting from 2.50 pm and on Eurosport 2 starting from 2.00 pm.