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Re: Nazionale Italiana
« Reply #165 on: June 23, 2025, 08:16:55 AM »
NT race 5 result ;

2    Frederico Gucciardo      27   0: 00"   250      Flyvende_hjul

Unfortunately no victory, but 2nd is also a very good result.
With these 250 points, it seems to me that Italy is already "secured" of the NT world championship.
Hopefully I'm not cheering too soon now. :)


GARA 6 : Yverdon-les-Bains

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Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland,
A very short time trial of just 15 km is always even more a lottery than a NT time trial of a normal distance already is.
And there could be low-stamina TT specialists/foreign rivals, that are only really suited for this very short TT to score points.
But Italy has a TT-top-selection, so, I expect many points. And even without luck, as in previous TT = NT race 5.

Nazionale Italiana, selezione gara 6 :

Salvatore Vergottini ( 24 ) Villavante
Nestore Novelli ( 31 ) SPORTLIFE
Giovanni Pizzuto ( 31 ) WaterBoys
Vicenzo Marsile ( 26 ) OphiukoCT
Simone Facci ( 29 ) SPORTLIFE
Vittorio Spadaro ( 26 ) AJ_Visma
Massimiliano Palandrani ( 28 ) Lukara
Marco Petruso ( 31 ) Lukara
Michael Palosi ( 24 ) GiabbaStar    ( debutto )
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Re: Nazionale Italiana
« Reply #166 on: June 30, 2025, 07:55:38 AM »
NT race 6 results ;

3    Nestore Novelli      31   0: 05"   225      SPORTLIFE
4    Salvatore Vergottini      24   0: 06"   200      Villavante
11    Vittorio Spadaro      26   0: 11"   110      AJ_Visma
15    Simone Facci      29   0: 13"   70      SPORTLIFE
20    Giovanni Pizzuto      31   0: 15"   10      WaterBoys

:( Facci finished with a mechanical breakdown, and Italy scored even less points as in NT race 5, the flat time trial of 38 km.

Australia was the best in this short 15 km time trial with a total of 670 points, and moves up to 2nd in the season ranking.
Although Australia has a better flat-cobble captain than Italy, it has just 2 golden flat-cobble specialists, just like Italy.
And the gap is enormous / way too big ; Italy is 990 points ahead.  8)

I expect that Belgium will be the nr 2 this season, because it has an amazing flat-cobble selection, incl. nrs 1 + 2 + 10.
But the current nr 5 Belgium is 1.175 points behind Italy. Also that gap is way too big to overtake.

Nice to mention ;
Brencis ( Latvia & SPORTLIFE ) won both time trials of this NT season.  :)
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Re: Nazionale Italiana
« Reply #167 on: June 30, 2025, 08:40:50 AM »
GARA 7 : Richmond

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Richmond, Virginia, USA,
There are just 2 Italian golden flat-cobble specialists, the nrs 22 & 27 of the CFF flat-cobble ranking.

With an enormous GV cap to the Italians with a silver flat-cobble icon.
Even the "best" silver Italian is a very unexperienced 24yo, and almost certain he is not good enough to help in s3.
So, no need to select an extra silver helper in this situation.
And although selected as xp cyclist, maybe, and just maybe, the Italian cobblehills captain can help in s1 and/or s2.

A lot of space to select xp-cyclists, and 4 of them are debutants.
I gave toptalent Scafidi his debut in race 1 of this NT season, now his 3rd xp selection,
and promising/nice to see that he is moving up quickly, as very young 21yo, in the u23 DreamTeam.

Nazionale Italiana, selezione gara 7 :

Cristiano Sansonetti ( 31 ) BiciclistasCT
Giulio Pellasci ( 29 ) TeamSerfin
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Fabian Scafidi ( 21 ) Lukara
Gino DAndrea ( 20 ) AleAle
Cristian Veroli ( 20 ) WinterIsComing    ( debutto )
Domenico Avenatti ( 19 ) Aspigarri     ( debutto )
Frederico Pinicci ( 20 ) SPORTLIFE     ( debutto )
Frederico Gucciardo ( 27 ) Flyvende_hjul 
Giusto Carta ( 22 ) JGMTeam     ( debutto )
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Re: Nazionale Italiana
« Reply #168 on: July 06, 2025, 09:41:41 PM »
NT race 7 result ;

5    Cristiano Sansonetti      31   0: 14"   180      BiciclistasCT

Very nice result !
Although Italy did not need these points, because with a huge gap the world champion of NT season 47.
Belgium finished as nrs 1 + 2 + 18 + 19 in this last race, and moved up to the 2nd place.
Final podium season ranking =

1.     2.345   :)
2.     1.590
3.     1.240



Italia = Campione del Mondo !

Un grande ringraziamento a tutti
che si sono allenati- o gareggiat con- i migliori ciclisti italiani, che hanno reso possibile questo Campionato del Mondo Italiano ! 8)

A big thank you to everyone
who trained- or competed with- the best Italian cyclists, who made this Italian World Championship possible !
  8)