March 22, 2012 (Gatteo, Italy) – It was a rare, tough double-stage day Tuesday at the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali. The morning’s road race was relatively short at just 99.5-km, but that didn’t make it any easier.

“With two very hard climbs we knew that there would be at least some attempts to get away in that early move before the climbs started at 46 km in,” said Team SpiderTech powered by C10 director Michael Carter. “Marching orders were to get Ray, Flavio or David in that early move – we ended up with Ray off the front with Jeff Louder of United Health after about 10 km.

“They gained an advantage of 1:50 over the field as the started the climb and then Ray fell off of Louder’s pace. The field caught Ray, Louder stayed away to win the first KOM, then it was Lucas who was able to capture third for the first KOM. The field split over the second hard climb of the day, then slowly came back together on the last 35 km of the descent to the finish”

Lucas Euser was the only SpiderTech rider to finish in the front group of 74 riders.

In the afternoon, the boys lined up for SpiderTech’s first-ever team time trial on a flat, 14.7-km course.

“For the very first TTT of the year and with no practice, the guys worked very well together on their Argon 18 E-118 machines, taking strong, smooth pulls. Ray’s efforts of the first stage of the day took their toll on him and he was not able to finish with the team, as was the case with Flavio and also Bjorn. The remaining five riders looked better and better with each kilometre and managed to finish with a respectable time of 17:15, only 47 seconds off of first place NetApp.”

The Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali continues Wednesday with a hilly 151-km stage from Fiorano Modenese to Levizzano.

Results

1. Team NetApp 0:16:28.30
2. Endura Racing 8.27
3. Androni Giocattoli 0:15.46
4. Acqua & Sapone 0:16.60
5. Liquigas-Cannondale 0:24.68
6. Utensilnord Named 0:25.66
7. Colnago – CSF Inox 0:26.70
8. Lampre – ISD 0:27.31
9. Astana Pro Team 0:27.37
10. Itera – Katusha 0:29.62
11. Team Idea 0:32.94
12. Farnese Vini – Selle Italia 0:38.87
13. UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 0:44.39
14. SpiderTech Powered By C10 0:47.68
15. Adria Mobil 0:47.99
16. Topsport Vlaanderen – Mercator 0:51.52
17. Team Nippo 0:52.64
18. Team Oster Hus – Ridley 1:11.60
19. Colombia – Coldeportes 1:25.96

GC after Stage 2b

1. Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Team NetApp 5:54:01
2. Daniel Schorn (Aut) Team NetApp 00:06
3. Jan Barta (Cze) Team NetApp
4. Matthias Brandle (Aut) Team NetApp
5. Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Team NetApp
6. Andreas Dietziker (Sui) Team NetApp
7. Rene Mandri (Est) Endura Racing 00:14
8. Iker Camano Ortuzar (Esp) Endura Racing
9. Paul Voss (Ger) Endura Racing
10. Jonathan Tiernan-Locke (Gbr) Endura Racing
11. Fabio Felline (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 00:21
12. Jackson Rodriguez (Ven) Androni Giocattoli
13. Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez (Col) Androni Giocattoli
14. Emanuele Sella (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
15. José Rujano Guillen (Ven) Androni Giocattoli
16. Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Col) Androni Giocattoli
17. Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
18. Carlos José Ochoa (Ven) Androni Giocattoli
19. Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 00:22
20. Francesco Reda (Ita) Acqua & Sapone
21. Massimo Codol (Ita) Acqua & Sapone
22. Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Acqua & Sapone
23. Carlos Albert Betancur Gomez (Col) Acqua & Sapone
24. Elia Viviani (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 00:24
25. Andrea Palini (Ita) Team Idea 00:29
26. Damiano Caruso (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 00:30
27. Moreno Moser (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
28. Stefano Agostini (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
29. Federico Canuti (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
30. Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Colnago-CSF Inox 00:31
31. Paolo Bailetti (Ita) Utensilnord Named
32. Patxi Javier Vila Errandonea (Esp) Utensilnord Named
33. Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Colnago-CSF Inox 00:33
34. Stefano Locatelli (Ita) Colnago-CSF Inox
35. Angelo Pagani (Ita) Colnago-CSF Inox
36. Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Colnago-CSF Inox
37. Adriano Malori (Ita) Lampre-ISD
38. Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre-ISD
39. Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-ISD
40. Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
41. Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Astana Pro Team
42. Tanel Kangert (Est) Astana Pro Team
43. Simone Ponzi (Ita) Astana Pro Team
44. Fredrik Carl Wilhelm Kessiakoff (Swe) Astana Pro Team
45. Alexandr Vinokurov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
46. Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Itera-Katusha 00:35
47. Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Itera-Katusha
48. Cristian Cominelli (Ita) Team Idea 00:39
49. Marco Frapporti (Ita) Team Idea
50. Luca Barla (Ita) Team Idea
51. Alessandro Bisolti (Ita) Team Idea
52. Francesco Failli (Ita) Farnese Vini-Selle Italia 00:45
53. Matteo Rabottini (Ita) Farnese Vini-Selle Italia
54. Rory Sutherland (Aus) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 00:50
55. Marc De Maar (AHo) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
56. Philip Deignan (Irl) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
57. Christopher Jones (USA) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
58. Pieter Serry (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator 00:53
59. Lucas Euser (USA) Spidertech Powered By C10
60. Tomaz Nose (Slo) Adria Mobil 00:54
61. Kristijan Durasek (Cro) Adria Mobil
62. Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Adria Mobil
63. Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Team Nippo
64. Jeff Louder (USA) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 00:55
65. Arthur Van Overberghe (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator 00:57
66. Julia David Arredondo Moreno (Col) Team Nippo 00:58
67. Giuseppe De Maria (Ita) Team Idea 00:59
68. Michael Rodriguez Galindo (Col) Colombia-Coldeportes 01:32
69. Dalivier Ospina Navarro (Col) Colombia-Coldeportes
70. Robinson Eduardo Chalapud Gomez (Col) Colombia-Coldeportes
71. Javier Gonzalez Barrera (Col) Colombia-Coldeportes
72. Daniele Ratto (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 01:36
73. Henry Frusto (Ita) Team Nippo 02:27
74. Marcel Wyss (Sui) Team NetApp 05:16
75. Alexander Wetterhall (Swe) Endura Racing 05:24
76. Zakkari Dempster (Aus) Endura Racing
77. Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) Utensilnord Named 05:41
78. Oleg Berdos (Mda) Utensilnord Named
79. Omar Lombardi (Ita) Colnago-CSF Inox 05:43
80. Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Lampre-ISD
81. Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
82. Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
83. Alexander Rybakov (Rus) Itera-Katusha 05:45
84. Sergei Rudaskov (Rus) Itera-Katusha
85. Cayetano Sarmiento Tunarrosa (Col) Liquigas-Cannondale 05:46
86. John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Utensilnord Named 05:53
87. Andrea Guardini (Ita) Farnese Vini-Selle Italia 05:55
88. Cristian Benenati (Ita) Farnese Vini-Selle Italia
89. Jonathan Clarke (Aus) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 06:00
90. Caleb Fairly (USA) Spidertech Powered By C10 06:03
91. David Boily (Can) Spidertech Powered By C10
92. Ryan Roth (Can) Spidertech Powered By C10
93. Matej Gnezda (Slo) Adria Mobil 06:04
94. Kristjan Fajt (Slo) Adria Mobil
95. Sander Armee (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator 06:07
96. Tim Declercq (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator
97. Vincenzo Garofalo (Ita) Team Nippo 06:08
98. Paolo Ciavatta (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 06:22
99. Sven Erik Bystrom (Nor) Team Oster Hus-Ridley 06:27
100. Filip Eidsheim (Nor) Team Oster Hus-Ridley
101. Haavard Blikra (Nor) Team Oster Hus-Ridley
102. Fredrik S Galta (Nor) Team Oster Hus-Ridley
103. Juan Pablo Suarez Suarez (Col) Colombia-Coldeportes 06:42
104. Benjamin Day (Aus) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 06:52
105. Dmitriy Mokrov (Rus) Itera-Katusha 06:58
106. Claudio Corioni (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 07:11
107. Christian Delle Stelle (Ita) Colnago-CSF Inox 07:16
108. Bjorn Selander (USA) Spidertech Powered By C10 07:22
109. Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 07:35
110. Alexander Zhdanov (Rus) Team Nippo 07:37
111. Juan Pablo Forero Carreno (Col) Colombia-Coldeportes 08:13
112. Russell Downing (Gbr) Endura Racing 08:41
113. Adrian Kurek (Pol) Utensilnord Named 08:58
114. Dmytro Krivtsov (Ukr) Lampre-ISD 09:00
115. Oleksandr Sheydyk (Ukr) Lampre-ISD
116. Kirill Baranov (Rus) Itera-Katusha 09:02
117. Ruslan Karimov (Uzb) Team Idea 09:06
118. Simone Boifava (Ita) Team Idea
119. Franck Osorio (Col) Colombia-Coldeportes 09:16
120. Matteo Fedi (Ita) Utensilnord Named 09:18
121. Will Routley (Can) Spidertech Powered By C10 09:20
122. Simon Pavlin (Slo) Adria Mobil 09:21
123. Tim Mertens (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator 09:24
124. Mauro Abel Richeze (Arg) Team Nippo 09:25
125. Kohei Ucihma (Jpn) Team Nippo
126. Dean Windsor (Aus) Endura Racing 09:38
127. Filippo Baggio (Ita) Utensilnord Named 09:39
128. Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Lampre-ISD 10:02
129. Jarl Salomein (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator 10:28
130. Kevin De Jonghe (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator 10:33
131. Robert Förster (Ger) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 10:38
132. Flavio De Luna (Mex) Spidertech Powered By C10 10:47
133. Juraj Sagan (Svk) Liquigas-Cannondale 11:05
134. Ole Martin Olmheim (Nor) Team Oster Hus-Ridley 11:59
135. Leopold Konig (Cze) Team NetApp 12:33
136. Johan Ziesler (Nor) Team Oster Hus-Ridley 13:06
137. Alfredo Balloni (Ita) Farnese Vini-Selle Italia 13:35
138. Davide Ricci Bitti (Ita) Farnese Vini-Selle Italia
139. Leonardo Giordani (Ita) Farnese Vini-Selle Italia 14:23
140. Frans-Leonard Markaskard (Nor) Team Oster Hus-Ridley 15:25
141. Kristian Dyrnes (Nor) Team Oster Hus-Ridley 17:24
142. Roberto De Patre (Ita) Farnese Vini-Selle Italia 18:51
143. Raymond Kunzli (Sui) Spidertech Powered By C10 29:18