Gaerne : Lampre-ISDs Final Outing for the Year

Japan Cup will be the last outing for Lampre-ISD in 2011 but the team principal Saronni has already made an evaluation of the season on the basis of the numbers of the UCI World Tour ranking.

Giro di Lombardia was the last race of the UCI circuit, so the individual and team rankings are definitive.

For Lampre-ISD, the result obtained on Saturday by Niemiec in Lecco (5th place) is important because it allowed the team president Galbusera to end the season 7th place (784 points), at only 20 points behind 6th place of Garmin-Cervelo and with the satisfaction of being the best Italian team.

Also the best Italian rider in the individual ranking is blue-fucsia: Michele Scarponi is 5th with 357 points.

At the top of the ranking there's also Damiano Cunego, 21st with 203 points, while in top 60 there are Bole (52nd with 91 points) and Petacchi (58th with 81 points).

Thanks to his performance in Giro di Lombardia, Niemiec is 83rd, preceding Gavazzi (118th), Pietropolli (120th) and the young Ulissi (129th). Bono, thanks to his victory in Eneco Tour, is 163rd, Kvachuk is 186th and Malori 200th. All the details of the ranking concerning Lampre-ISD are on the website http://www.teamlampreisd.com/ , in the results and ranking section.

Giuseppe Saronni analyzed the situation using thee words: "The numbers don't give a complete review of the season, but they can be useful in order to guess how good are the results obtained and at which level the team lived: being the first Italian team, being blue-fucsia the best Italian cyclist, having 11 riders obtained points are all important elements that gives us good satisfactions. It's important to point out that our top riders Scarponi and Cunego were competitive during the whole season, except in some moments when they had to face illness. We're ready to face the future, relying in 2012 on 10 of the 11 cyclists that obtained points in 2011".

Tomorrow, on the website http://www.teamlampreisd.com/ , a video-interview with Scarponi about his 5th position in the World Tour ranking.