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| UCI code | FAS | |||||||||||||
| Based |  Italy |
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| Founded | 2000 | |||||||||||||
| Disbanded | 2005 | |||||||||||||
| Discipline(s) | Road | |||||||||||||
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| General manager | Giancarlo Ferretti | |||||||||||||
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| 2005 - ProTour 2000-2004 Div. I |
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Fassa Bortolo (2000-2005) was a professional road bicycle racing team founded in 2000 and led by Giancarlo Ferretti. Dubbed the 'Silver Team', it grew out to be one of the most successful teams of the era, not in the least due to topsprinter Alessandro Petacchi. In its six competitive years, Fassa Bortolo won over 200 races, including stages in all three Grand Tours. It was one of the inaugural 20 UCI ProTour teams in 2005.
Fassa Bortolo stopped the sponsorship of the team after 2005. Efforts to find a new co-sponsor for 2006 proved unsuccessful. On October 14 2005, a man claiming to represent proposed new sponsor Sony Ericsson turned out to be an imposter, leaving all staff and riders unemployed.[1]
Petacchi and some of his helpers moved to the new Team Milram, a continuation of the Domina Vacanze Team. The other Fassa Bortolo riders all moved to different teams.
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Team 2005
The main part of the riders signed early contracts with new teams for 2006, and eventually all riders found new teams.
Important Victories
2000
- [[[2000 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]], Stage 6, Points classification - Dmitry Konychev
- Vuelta a España, Stage 8, 12 – Alessandro Petacchi
- Giro di Lombardia – Raimondas Rumsas
2001
- Paris-Nice – Dario Frigo
- Vuelta al Pais Vasco – Raimondas Rumsas
- Tour de Romandie – Dario Frigo
- Giro d’Italia, Stage 12 – Matteo Tosatto
- Tour de France, Stage 9 – Serguei Ivanov
2002
- Amstel Gold Race – Michele Bartoli
- Ronde van Nederland – Kim Kirchen
- Coppa Placci – Matteo Tosatto
- Giro dell'Emilia – Michele Bartoli
- Milano-Torino – Michele Bartoli
- Giro di Lombardia – Michele Bartoli
2003
- Tirreno-Adriatico – Filippo Pozzato
- Setmana Catalana – Dario Frigo
- Giro d’Italia, Stage 1, 5, 6, 13, 16, 17 – Alessandro Petacchi
- Giro d’Italia, Stage 15 – Aitor González Jiménez
- Giro d’Italia, Stage 18 – Dario Frigo
- Tour de France, Stage 1, 3, 5, 6 – Alessandro Petacchi
- Vuelta a España, Stage 3, 5, 12, 14, 21 – Alessandro Petacchi
- Giro del Lazio – Michele Bartoli
- Giro di Lombardia – Michele Bartoli
2004
- Giro d’Italia, Stage 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 20 – Alessandro Petacchi
- Tour de France, Prologue – Fabian Cancellara
- Tour de France, Stage 7 – Filippo Pozzato
- Tour de France, Stage 14 – Aitor González Jiménez
- Züri Metzgete – Juan Antonio Flecha
- GP Kanton Aargau – Matteo Tosatto
- Vuelta a España, Stage 2, 4, 7, 13 – Alessandro Petacchi
- Giro del Lazio – Juan Antonio Flecha
2005
- Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana – Alessandro Petacchi
- Milano-Torino – Fabio Sacchi
- 2005 Milan-Sanremo – Alessandro Petacchi
- Giro d’Italia, Stage 9, 12, 15, 20 – Alessandro Petacchi
- Tour de France, Stage 6 – Lorenzo Bernucci
- Vuelta a España, Stage 3, 4, 8, 12, 21 – Alessandro Petacchi
- Tour de Pologne – Kim Kirchen
References
- ^ Les Clarke, "Ferretti falls flat; no Sony-Ericsson squad for 2006?", CyclingNews.com, October 14, 2005
- ^ "Frigo handed sentence for doping", BBC Sport, October 24, 2005
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