Team's Plan

We will try to get in an early attack and will test our chance there. If that not succeed, we still have Pibernik if race finishes in mass sprint , or Hiti if it comes to multiple attacks. Anyway, not high expectations , since this is one more Italian 1.1 classic, and competition is pretty strong for us.

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And , as planned , our guy was the first one to go in breakaway. This time, it was Otonicar. He seems to have really strong legs today. Group lets him, so everything is just great for us!



Of course, others saw their chance here, and decided to join him. Not much later , we already have big breakaway group. They're gaining time pretty quickly, and they already have 7 minutes. This seems pretty serious! With Otonicar, there are Canuti, Fortin , Dowsett , Martinez ,Hocevar ,Roulston , Kritskiy and Goddaert in E1 group.



Weather is getting worser and worser by time,and seems like the first drops of rain already appeared. Huhu, it's now going to be nervous in peloton,since everyone would want place at top of peloton and it's slippery. We expect alot of falls!

Kritskiy , as most popular and probably best rider on paper at breakaway group, tries his luck on begin of hill. This is 20th kilometer till the line,last time we're going on this climb. Peloton is chasing hardly, but they can't gain that much time. It's still 1'50" for breakaway group.



Otonicar was pretty strong, but as whole ex-breakaway, he got caught on top of mountain, now , it's question of time when will Kritskiy get caught. But no, teams cannot agree about chasing and relays, so Kritskiy started gaining time again. Game of cat-mouse.

We're at last kilometer. Kritskiy still has advantage of some 20meters, seems like he is not be able to save it. Behind , in Peloton , Felline and Santambrogio are in top of group. Radenska's riders are feeling great, Hiti prepared sprint for Pibernik, who somehow managed to pass all these hills. We still has chance for great result here!



What an explosive sprint from Mauro, who smartly waited behind Felline. He just passed next to Kritskiy like a rocket. Santambrogio got an excellent win here.



Shame for Kritskiy, but what our guys did? Oh yeah, Pibernik is natural sprinter, so he should get pretty decent result here. We could not see him, so we're curious to see did he disappoint or surprise us! Let's bring on results.

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Mauro Santambrogio	Vini Fantini - Selle Italia	4h29'33
2	Fabio Felline	Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela	s.t.
3	Timofey Kritskiy	Katusha Team	s.t.
4	Paolo Tiralongo	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
5	Romain Bardet	Ag2r - La Mondiale	s.t.
6	Ivan Santaromita	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
7	Andrey Amador Bikkazakova	Movistar Team	s.t.
8	Luka Pibernik	Radenska	s.t.
9	Sergey Lagutin	Vacansoleil - DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
10	Matej Mugerli	Adria Mobil	s.t.

Post-race comment

"C'mon! What's happenin' to our guys? They're awesome! Manager is doing absolutely amazing job, this is just perfect. Media's are giving more attention to us, he is definitely going to get bigger budget if he continues on this tempo." said Radenska's company director.