UAE Team Emirates for Tirreno-Adriatico

UAE Team Emirates will race the 2018 Tirreno-Adriatico, this March 7 to 13, with two leaders for the overall classification.

“We are going to Tirreno-Adriatico with an aim in the general classification,” said Sports Director Mario Scirea. “We can aim for the overall both with Fabio Aru and Diego Ulissi, who showed at the start of this season to be going strong. 

“It will be key to race a good team time trial, above all against those teams that are aiming for an overall victory. We can count on Ganna and Consonni, who just came from the track worlds, to help. And also Marcato and Ulissi, who rode a good time trial in the Abu Dhabi Tour.”

Fabio Aru will be racing his second event of the season after starting in the Abu Dhabi Tour. “Tirreno-Adriatico is for sure one of my season goals,” explained Aru. “I only have the Abu Dhabi Tour in my legs so far, but for sure that test that I did in the Emirates helped in understanding what I need to work on in the period ahead of Tirreno-Adriatico. This will be a complete race for us, where also the time trial is fundamental. We are going in motivated and setup to race well.”

Roster: Fabio Aru (Italy), Simone Consonni (Italy), Valerio Conti (Italy), Filippo Ganna (Italy), Marco Marcato (Italy), Jan Polanc (Slovenia), Diego Ulissi (Italy).

Sports Directors: Mario Scirea (Italy), Marco Marzano (Italy), Paolo Tiralongo (Italy).