Lampre-Fondital direttore sportivo Guido Bontempi is not exactly optimistic about his squad's chances at this week's Volta a la Comunidad Valenciana (Spain, February 21-25). "This edition of the race is harder than the ones of past years," said Bontempi in a team ann🌄ouncement. "Looking at the stages' characteristics, I think we could aim to win once with Bennati."

Daniele Bennati will be accomp🦩anied in the Spanish race by Alessandro Ballan, Salvatore Commesso, Paolo Fornaciari, Danilo Napolitano, Evgueni Petrov, Daniele Righi, and Patxi Vila. Giuliano Figueras, and M✃arius Sabaliauskas will be reserves.