The first all-Italian team to win a stage in this competition, with Porro and Ferraro also climbs on the final podium with third place in the overall. In the top ten also the couple Gutierrez-Rabensteiner.
Source: press release
Team Trek Selle San Marco enters the history of the CAPE EPIC, the grueling South African stage race, which ended today in Meerendal after eight exciting days.
Team A made up of Samuele Porro and Damiano Ferraro succeeded in the incredible feat of conquering the third step of the final podium, after having had the merit of being the first all-Italian team to win a stage at Cape Epic, also climbing the podium with two third places. All this, at its debut in this legendary competition, defined as the “Tour de France of mountain biking”.
With Ferraro hit yesterday by a flu attack, it was not obvious to be able to repel the assault on third place in the general classification by a fierce Team Cannondale, first at the finish line of the last stage (Boschendal-Meerendal of 86 km and 1.200 meters of difference in height). Chronometer in hand, in a heart-pounding final, our team crossed the finish line in ninth place stopping the time with a delay of 4'25 ", that is, saving 39 precious seconds to maintain the third position of the general and thus conquer the coveted podium. the final.
A historic result to which the other couple of Team Trek Selle San Marco in the race contributed greatly, composed of Ivan Alvarez Gutierrez and Fabian Rabensteiner, today twelfth. Precious on several occasions to support the captains, they distinguished themselves by entering the final top ten, winning the eighth place in the general classification.
