Giro d'Italia 2025, 3 yellow cards already: Busatto, Marcellusi and Rafferty at risk

Rome, 12 May 2025 – Among the many regulatory innovations introduced starting from this cycling season are the yellow cards, relevant throughout the year and its various moments, but to say the least decisive in the Grand Tours. And not just for runners.

The first suspension in history  

The motorcyclist of a photographer present at the event experienced this, despite himself. Vuelta Femenina 2025, which ended on Saturday with the success, the second in a row, of Demi Vollering: for the driver, in the space of four days, two sanctions arrived from the jury. For the curious or simply to understand how tight the net of the new regulatory quibbles and of their guardians are, the first yellow was given in the second stage for "failure to comply with the instructions of the organizers or the race commissioners", while the second was inflicted on the occasion of the penultimate act for "infringement of the regulatory provisions or directives concerning the circulation of vehicles in the race or failure to comply with the instructions of the commissioners and/or the organization".

For the motorcyclist, therefore, the veto on participating in the last stage has arrived, in addition to the inhibition for any event UCI for 7 days, with forfeiture the 16st May. A sin, which could become capital if the one who incurs these sanctions is a cyclist who perhaps worked hard all winter to best prepare for a Great Tour.

Taking advantage of the day off, useful for moving fromAlbania to the Puglia, Giro d'Italia 2025 has already been able to analyse the disciplinary situation of its protagonists, 3 of whom are already at very high risk despite having just been archived 3 stages. According to the new regulation, in fact, a runner cannot receive two yellow cards in a race. Great Tour: under penalty of immediate abandonment of the race. Those under attention in this regard are Francesco Busatto, in history for being the first runner to receive a card in a Great Tour, as well as the first white jersey of the race, Martin Marcellusi e Darren Rafferty: the two Italians were punished for "irregular sprint", while the Irishman ended up on the bad list for "disposing of a water bottle without precaution".

The three, therefore, from Alberobello a Roma will have to pay close attention to their behavior to avoid incurring a second yellow card which would be fatal. Unlike what happens in football, in cycling and in particular in Giro d'Italia 2025 there is no assonance with the warnings, which are simple verbal reminders very different from the yellow: he knows something about it bilbao hair, warned after yesterday's stage, the last on Albanian soil, for having assumed an unsuitable position on the bike. Good for the Spaniard, but also for Antonio Tiberi, which has in him and in the other expert Damian Caruso his two chief lieutenants at home Bahrain Victorious. Different speech for Intermarché-Wanty, VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè ed EF Education EasyPost, already anxious about the disciplinary fate of respectively Busatto, Marcellusi e Rafferty.