Best wishes from Hard Rock home...with cheers Saturday night at Fiorenzuola (PC - Italy), at the restaurant Mathis, was held the special evening that usually the guys of Hard Rock Race Team organize - waiting for this appointment for months - to share each other the "Season Greetings".
A simple evening, which allowed managers of Merida Italia Team to congratulate with the athletes, technicians, mechanics and attendants of the team, for the excellent results obtained during the season just ended. The important results have been several, but everybody liked that the tricolor jersey conquered by Alessandro Naspi among the Juniores was the one that gave the title to the toast of the evening. At the same time, with the legs under the table and eating some specialties, was also seized the opportunity to define, together, the objectives to be asked for the next year. The recent outstanding performances of the young Gioele Bertolini during this cyclocross season, that certify the further growth, in addition to the results of his teammates, confirms the very high level of competitiveness of all the group in national field. However the ambitions for the next season, primarily for the athletes but also for the entire staff of Merida Italia Team, are represented by the desire to achieve increasing results in the international arena.
As already explained for the next season the athletes who will make up the Team will be the confirmed Lorenzo Samparisi, Mattia Setti, Stefano Valdrighi, Gioele Bertolini and Alessandro Naspi (all in the category Under23) and the newcomer Vanni Frassoni (Juniores first year) coming from the youth division of the Team. At the end of the evening all the guys of Hard Rock Team have made their best wishes for Christmas and Happy New Year to the Estonian Martin Loo, that after three years of militancy in the Team, in late October did not renew the contract and now is looking for a team that can offer him to continue the activity of international XCO.