We’re in the Italian Alps for the national road race championship. Cattaneo, Penasa, Carboni, Formolo, Fabbro, and Manfredi are the top names. Cattaneo has 4 Italian TT titles but has never won the road race.
Lierse (the only team with 8 riders), Gazelle and Air New Zealand do the chasing and a break of 9 amateurs is closed down with 12k to go. Immediately, Formolo and Fabbro attack.
They get a small gap but some solid pacemaking from Bongiorno first brings back Fabbro and then with 8.5k to go Formolo.
Minions and Gazelle control the pace until just before the 5k banner when Penasa and Carboni attack.
Cattaneo tries to follow but can’t quite make the junction and with 4k to go the two attackers have 17 seconds over a 12-rider chase group. Manfredi the most notable rider missing from the front two groups.
Work from Cattaneo and then Formolo brings 5 riders back to the leaders with 3k to go. Also making it across are Ciccone, Senni, and Conci. Fabbro just off the back of the leaders.
Under 2k to go, Ciccone and Conci dropped and the two Gazelle riders are struggling. Fabbro never made it across.
900 meters to and a little dig from Formolo gets him some daylight.
That gap proves decisive and Formolo wins the 2024 Italian National Championship.
Cattaneo is 2nd ahead of Penasa.
Results
1
Davide Formolo
Rabobank
1h47'01
2
Mattia Cattaneo
Minions
+ 11
3
Pierre Paolo Penasa
Ethiopian Airlines
s.t.
4
Giovanni Carboni
Gazelle
s.t.
5
Manuel Senni
Gazelle
+ 30
6
Giulio Ciccone
Cedevita
+ 43
7
Nicola Conci
ZARA - Irizar
s.t.
8
Matteo Fabbro
Air New Zealand-Alfa Romeo
+ 1'00
9
Giovanni Aleotti
Gazelle
+ 1'30
10
Alessandro Covi
Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
s.t.
11
Valerio Conti
Gjensidige Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
12
Francesco Bongiorno
Gazelle
s.t.
13
Andrea Bagioli
Indosat Ooredoo
s.t.
14
Fabio Aru
Simba Cement - Tanga Fresh
s.t.
15
Samuele Battistella
Specialized
s.t.
16
Gianni Moscon
Cervelo Test Team
s.t.
17
Simone Velasco
Bralirwa - Cegeka
s.t.
18
Simone Petilli
Air New Zealand-Alfa Romeo
s.t.
19
Andrea Manfredi
Simba Cement - Tanga Fresh
s.t.
20
Alessandro Fedeli
Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
s.t.
21
Stefano Oldani
Polar
s.t.
22
Daniele Dall'Oste
Minions
s.t.
23
Lorenzo Fortunato
Everesting
+ 2'23
24
Nicola Bagioli
Aker - MOT
+ 2'32
25
Lorenzo Rota
McCormick Pro Cycling
+ 3'07
26
Edoardo Zambanini
Polar
+ 3'35
27
Andrea Zordan
Cervelo Test Team
+ 3'55
28
Filippo Ganna
Xero Racing
s.t.
29
Davide Piganzoli
Air New Zealand-Alfa Romeo
+ 4'16
30
Walter Calzoni
Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
+ 4'44
31
Matteo Sobrero
Trans Looney Tunes
s.t.
32
Marco Frigo
Rabobank
+ 5'22
33
Vincenzo Albanese
cycleYorkshire
s.t.
34
Andrea Piccolo
Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
s.t.
35
Luca Wackermann
Euskotren - Pays Basque
+ 5'59
36
Davide Ballerini
cycleYorkshire
+ 6'30
37
Edoardo Affini
ELCO - ABEA
+ 6'46
38
Edoardo Sandri
Specialized
+ 7'18
39
Gabriele Benedetti
Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
+ 7'26
40
Andrea Vendrame
Ethiopian Airlines
+ 8'12
41
Davide Persico
Air New Zealand-Alfa Romeo
+ 9'22
42
Francesco Della Lunga
Gjensidige Pro Cycling Team
s.t.
43
Simone Raccani
Air New Zealand-Alfa Romeo
+ 9'33
44
Simone Consonni
Gjensidige Pro Cycling Team
+ 12'33
45
Jonathan Milan
Specialized
+ 13'46
46
Andrea Dal Col
Grieg-Maersk
+ 14'47
47
Niccolo Bonifazio
Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
+ 16'55
48
Lorenzo Milesi
McCormick Pro Cycling
+ 17'22
49
Jakub Mareczko
Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
s.t.
Time Trial
Ganna is the heavy favorite for the ITT.
Cattaneo and Affini are the first two strong TT riders to start. Affini beats Cattaneo by fractions.
Conci betters them both by 14 seconds at 1 hour 4 seconds. Dal Col goes better than him by fractions.
Ganna breaks the 1 hour mark and wins by 29 seconds.
Italian National Championships 
