PROFESSIONALS | 05/09/2024 | 5.02pm
by Pier Augusto Stagi
In some ways it is an “Italian miracle”. Making teams with less than half of the lowest budgets that are here in the Giro. Stand your ground and be seen, show yourself to the world with solitary or small group actions. VF Group Bardiani CSF Faizané and Polti Kometa. Or if you want Polti Kometa and VF Group Bardiani CSF Faizané: by reversing the factors the budgets do not change. The formations of Bruno and Roberto Reverberi and Ivan Basso, two realities that bring the Italian cycling history around the world, with economic parsimony and far-sighted technical vision, are two front-page realities. Reverberi and Basso are artists, the latter of whom has always also made use of the Contador brothers, Alberto and Fran.
They are artists because in this Giro they propose two absolutely respectable formations that cost just under four million euros. If we take Fabian Cancellara’s Tudor already has a budget of almost ten million euros.
So, let’s stop here, without mentioning Uae Emirates or Visma Lease a Bike, rather than Ineos or Bora Hansgrohe which next year will also be able to count on the energetic injection of money from Red Bull. Let’s not bother these teams, who have budgets of 35/50 million euros, it’s not necessary. Suffice it to say that Ivan Basso reaches 3 million and 900 thousand euros, and the Reveberi at 4, to say that they work miracles. An Italian miracle.
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