As far as Birel colours are concerned, the specialist of the 125 category Francesco Laudato took part to the competition as well because he didn’t want to miss the opportunity of competing with the best drivers of the world on this home racing track. On the contrary Marco Ardigò of Birel team was forced to default at the end: the driver from Brescia was actually blocked by as sudden appendicitis attack. Of course, with this selected “parterre” the expectations for a great show were really very high and after the green light the protagonists did not fail to comply with them. Thanks to the competitiveness showed by some outsiders, who during qualifying sessions attracted the attention of the experts, the World Championship proved to be really open and fascinating. Among the outsiders, who joined rightly the drivers competing for the title since qualifying sessions, we can mention Ruben Carrapatoso, who attained the best time in trial, the Belgian Thonon, Claverie and Cunningham. Also the couple Pantano-Liuzzi, competing respectively for Intrepid and for Crg, and Birel driver Quintarelli proved once again to be very talented drivers and all of them qualified very well for the Final. There were other confirmations, for example by Renaudie, who won the prefinal and so attained his pole position in the official round for the title, and also by Hanley and Forè, who qualified close to the French driver of Pcr team. On the other hand Fanetti and Pineiro, who were out in the prefinal and forced to sprint from behind the lines in the Final, experienced a very unlucky weekend. And just one of the outsider before the competition was awarded the world cycling title: Grant Cunningham. Both Pantano and Liuzzi didn’t see the chequered flag because of some problems, as well as the French Renaudie, who was stopped by the engine breakdown when he was leading. Ben Hanley came in 2nd , preceding Thonon and Quintarelli, and this latter at the end of the competition was just one step from the podium.

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