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14th GP Costa degli Etruschi - 1.1
Italy, February 7, 2009
2008 Results Results Past winners
Ale-Jet scorches to fifth straight win
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Alessandro Petacchi opened his season with his fifth consecutive victory in the GP Costa degli Etruschi. The Italian bested neo-pro Jacopo Guarnieri (Liquigas) to chalk up his LPR Farnese Vini team's first win of the year. Barloworld's Robbie Hunter took third, clearly having found something to ride after his team fell victim to the theft of its team bikes earlier this week.
The race saw a long escape by Andrei Gryvko and Giovanni Visconti (ISD), who stayed clear of the peloton for nearly 100 kilometres before being caught with 20km to go.
Photography
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- Giovanni Visconti is honoured a day before the start of the race.
- Visconti received the Premio Torre d'Argento in San Vincenzo.
- Paolo Bettini chimed in as well and wished Visconti all the best for the season.
- Vittorino Mulazzani was in attendance as well
- A bottle of wine is never a bad idea.
- Bettini doesn't need an introduction but he gets it anyway.
- Visconti also received a nice painting
- People were speechless after the good dinner.
- Visconti was happy with the prize he received.
- Petacchi gets a challenge in the sprint by Jacopo Guarnieri (Liquigas).
- Petacchi gets the win, but it was close.
- It's Petacchi by a wheel over neo-pro Jacopo Guarnieri (Liquigas).
- Alessandro Petacchi (LPR) takes his fifth consecutive win.
- Alessandro Petacchi (LPR) celebrates after taking his first win of the season.
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre)
Images by Riccardo Scanferla
- Petacchi is back!
- The Italian won on home soil
- Basso races in Italy for the first time since his doping suspension.
- The podium of the GP Etruschi (l-r) with Jacopo Guarnieri (Liquigas, second), Alessandro Petacchi (LPR Farnese Vini) and Robert Hunter (Barloworld)
- Visconti tests his legs early in the season.
Results - 193 km
1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) LPR-Famese Vini 4.44.34 (40.639 km/h) 2 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Liquigas 3 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld 4 Francesco Ginanni (Ita) Seramenti Diquigiovanni - Androni Giocattolii 5 Marko Kump (Slo) Adria Mobil Slovenia 6 Luca Paolini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe' Mokambo 7 Marco Frapporti (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 8 Oscar Gatto (Ita) ISD 9 Francesco Rivera (Ita) Amica Chips-Knauf 10 Krzysztof Szczawinski (Pol) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia 11 Kevin Peeters (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 12 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe' Mokambo 13 Ricardo Serranogonzai (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 14 Bernardo Riccio (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce 15 Domenico Loria (Ita) Centri Della Calzatura - Marche 16 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 17 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Team Piemonte 18 William Walker (Aus) Fuji-Servetto 19 Thomas Bertolini (Ita) Seramenti Diquigiovanni - Androni Giocattolii 20 Emanuele Rizza (Ita) Betonexpress 2000 - Limonta 21 Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) Team Piemonte 22 Igor Astarloa Ascasibar (Spa) Amica Chips-Knauf 23 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C 24 Mauro Abel Richeze (Arg) CSF Group - Navigare 25 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia 26 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 27 Piergiorgio Camussa (Ita) Team Piemonte 28 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita) LPR-Famese Vini 29 Mauro Finetto (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 30 Daryl Impey (RSA) Barloworld 31 Donato Cannone (Ita) Betonexpress 2000 - Limonta 32 Iker Camano Ortuzari (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 33 Diego Milan Jmenez (Spa) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe' Mokambo 34 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Fuji-Servetto 35 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce 36 Volodymyr Diudia (Ukr) ISD 0.16 37 Jan Stannard (GBr) ISD 0.21 38 Alessandro Maserati (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce 39 Enrico Rossi (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce 40 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) LPR-Famese Vini 0.40 41 Pierpaolo Ton Do (Ita) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia 42 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 1.13 43 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe' Mokambo 44 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR-Famese Vini 45 Riccardo Chiarini (Ita) LPR-Famese Vini 1.30 46 Americo Novembrini (Ita) Nazionale Elettronica New Slot- Hadimec 47 Christopher Duperrut (Swi) Nazionale Elettronica New Slot- Hadimec 48 Kristjan Fajt (Slo) Adria Mobil Slovenia 49 Simone Bruson (Ita) Team Piemonte 50 Alessioi Siniego (Ita) Adria Mobil Slovenia 51 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia 52 Enrico Zen (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 53 Carlo Corra (Ita) Team Corratec 54 Mirko Selvaggi (Ita) Amica Chips-Knauf 55 Marco Corti (Ita) Barloworld 56 Robert Vrecer (Slo) Adria Mobil Slovenia 57 Sébastien Delfosse (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 58 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 59 Jesus Del Nero Monte (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 60 Alessandro Bisolti (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 61 Luca Pierfelici (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe' Mokambo 62 Honorio Machado Perez (Ven) Betonexpress 2000 - Limonta 63 Marco Corsini (Ita) Team Corratec 64 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas 65 Maurizio Biondo (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce 66 Danilo Andrenacci (Ita) Nazionale Elettronica New Slot- Hadimec 67 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C 68 Simone Ponzi (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C 69 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C 70 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe' Mokambo 71 Francesco Di Paolo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe' Mokambo 72 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C 73 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Barloworld 74 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C 75 Uros Murn (Slo) Adria Mobil Slovenia 76 Marcello Pavarin (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 77 Francesco Failli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe' Mokambo 78 Volodymyr Zagorodny (Ukr) Lampre - N.G.C 79 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C 80 Fabio Taborre (Ita) Seramenti Diquigiovanni - Androni Giocattoli 81 Michal Golas (Pol) Amica Chips-Knauf 82 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) Team Corratec 83 Fabrizio Amerighi (Ita) Team Corratec 84 Marco Ghiselli (Ita) Nazionale Elettronica New Slot- Hadimec 85 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 86 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas 87 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Fuji-Servetto 88 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia 89 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia 90 Marino Palandri (Ita) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia 91 Edwin Carvajal Jarami (Col) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia 92 Giuseppe De Maria (Ita) Amica Chips-Knauf 93 Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld 94 Simone Stortoni (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 95 Steven Cummings (GBr) Barloworld 96 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Seramenti Diquigiovanni - Androni Giocattolii 97 Roberto-Antonio Richeze (Arg) Betonexpress 2000 - Limonta 98 Antonio Quadranti (Ita) Betonexpress 2000 - Limonta 99 Gediminas Kaupas (Ltu) Team Piemonte 100 Adriano Angeloni (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce 101 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Fuji-Servetto 102 Bruno Rizzi (Ita) Team Corratec 103 David Cioni Dario (Ita) ISD 3.00 104 Andrea Pagotto (Ita) Team Corratec 105 Luca Zanasca (Ita) Centri Della Calzatura - Marche 106 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) ISD 107 Davide Torosantucci (Ita) Centri Della Calzatura - Marche 108 Maxim Belkov (Rus) ISD 109 Dainius Kairelis (Ltu) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce 110 Thomas Geraint (GBr) Barloworld 111 Sergio Laganà (Ita) LPR-Famese Vini 112 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) LPR-Famese Vini
Past winners
2008 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 2007 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 2006 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram 2005 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2004 Yuriy Metlushenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2003 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2r-Prevoyance 2002 Yuriy Metluschenko (Ukr) Colnago-Landbouwkrediet 2001 Nicola Gavazzi (Ita) 2000 Mario Cipollini (Ita) 1999 Endrio Leoni (Ita) 1998 Mario Cipollini (Ita) 1997 Biago Conte (Ita) 1996 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita)
