Junior

A piece of news that will please sportsmen and especially cycling enthusiasts, also because it is not easy for the junior category to go on Rai for about half an hour. The good news will be proposed on Sunday 2 March when in Cerbaia di Lamporecchio with the Giuliano Baronti Grand Prix the 2025 season will open. Alessio and Stefano Baronti to remember their father Giuliano, have secured TV filming on Rai Sport Channel 58, which will broadcast the Pistoia race organised by the Team Franco Ballerini.

The announced time is from 17,25:17,55 to 184:7; thirty minutes to remember even more forcefully and with greater visibility Giuliano Baronti, and how much this charismatic character has done for national and Tuscan cycling. The race that will take place on an unpublished route with a technical and challenging finale for the climb of San Baronto from the Lamporecchio side and the difficult descent from the Giugnano side, XNUMX riders are registered, practically all the strongest in the national field with a maximum of XNUMX athletes per team.

This is the route. The national junior race with start and finish on via Amendola in the industrial area of ​​Cerbaia in front of Neri Sottoli, will have a route of one hundred and thirty kilometers. Official start from via Ferrucci in Lamporecchio after two and a half km of transfer at 14 pm with 5 laps of 16,300 km through Mastromarco, Lazzeretto, Stabbia, Cerbaia, then two laps of 17,200 km (Lamporecchio, Borgano, Vinci, Bivio Toiano, S.Pantaleo, Apparita, Mastromarco, Lamporecchio, Cerbaia). Finally the last lap of 16,400 km touching Lamporecchio, the climb of San Baronto, then a technical and treacherous descent towards Giugnano and Lamporecchio to reach the finish line in Cerbaia.

The reconfirmed technical commissioner of the junior national team will also be present at the race Dino Salvoldi.

Antonio Mannori